Well he did have INTENT to defraud the people. No one sells pictures for 1600$ unless it's premium artwork. I highly doubt he put the auction up as artwork.
He WANTED people to think they were going to get something they were not. The fact that he legally covered his ass fine print only partially makes up for that. It still feels like fraud to me.
I guess I would have to see the text that went with it. It depends on how outrightly deceitful it was. If it was a clear explanation of the item and the buyer in haste just bidded without really understanding it, so be it, but I highly doubt that is the situation.
Afterall, if you're about to spend 1600$ you'd probably at least read all the text on the page... or so one would hope.
MORAL: Buyer beware... especially when buying expensive things off of ebay.
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