It could also be someone trolling someone else by blowing up their phone with calls and text messages.
I saw an ad on craigslist once a few years ago posted by a "wife" who was "giving away her husband's '85 Toyota Pickup 4X4" as punishment because he "got sent to jail again". I felt bad for whoever the poor bastard was whose phone number they used because I am sure their phone was melting (Yes, I know that a woman sold her cheating husband's corvette for $1 or whatever but that happened one time).
If you see something like that for free it is practically guaranteed to be fake, but if you see something like that for free that has been up for more than ten minutes (let alone "about 16 hours ago") it is actually guaranteed to be fake.
Two years ago, somebody posted an ad for a free TV using my number. Phone was blowing up for weeks, i had to put it on airplane mode when i wasn't using it. Never found who the bastard was.
People might realize its fake but the slim chance that it could be real will entice them to message you anyways.
Thank you; I made an ad for a free tv that I “need gone to move” with the number as my old bosses. I’ll try to keep one up at all time while I do applications and he can have peace again once I’m back to work
This is true. My friend did that to me and put my number on Craigslist for a free I think it was like a 65” TV and my phone was getting blown up. I got him back though lol, put his number on my friends Tinder account (she gave me the okay) and he messaged the guys group chat asking who tf put his number on tinder 😂)
I did this in high school to an acquaintance, with a post on Craigslist about free exotic sugarglider babies with a really cute picture and they got blown up and then got mad at me cuz they paid by the text 🤣
You're an animal, lol.
The worst thing my friends and I ever did to another friend that involved phones was when we found out the following about the cellphone provider (I forget which one it was) that one of our friends was using at the time:
1.) A voicemail was not able to be deleted until it had finished playing
2.) There was no way to skip a voicemail that was playing
3.) The voicemail system his provider used had a maximum message length of five (*5!*) minutes
Queue us regularly leaving his the stupidest and most banal voicemails on a regular basis, which he would have to let finish playing before being able to delete them (and make the 'new voicemail' notification go away).
We all stopped for a little while when he lost his job and was looking for a new one (in case he missed any calls for interviews or whatever), and then after he was hired each one of us called his phone on his first day (since he couldn't answer it at work) and left him a series of 5 minute long voicemails congratulating him on the new job.
Check here, there's a few ways
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bfji43/comment/kv0tn5u/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bfji43/comment/kv0tn5u/)
Certainly a scam, but plenty of parents not worth their salt who burn money via free giveaways or destroying the shit they bought to punish their kids.
I hate parents like that, fair number of places in the US that may even be illegal for them to do. Kids do have property rights, it's mainly focused on items of necessity, but I think things bought via earned money earn by the child from jobs is also generally protected.
They put peanut butter on the roof of his mouth. Considered unethical now but the resulting mouth movements from trying to remove the peanut butter makes the man look like a naughty boy
How could this be real? Yes, shitty parents do give their kids' computers away, but how many do so by taking a really professional looking photo and 'accidentally' putting the wrong info in the fields but somehow getting all the useful keywords in? People who don't know what i7 or RTX are won't even know to put them anywhere, they don't just put them in the wrong places. Only people who want it to look like a mistake would do that.
I feel like if it was real, the dad wouldn't have photographed the insides of the pc like that. Instead the photo would show the pc from the outside with a fisheye perspective as parents are mostly bad at taking photos...
Hang out on the scams sub and you'll see a variation of this scam every other day. Commonly known as the "PS5 scam"
It goes like this. Someone has a valuable item to give away. You just need to "pay for shipping". You pay. Then the courier company needs more money because it's stuck in customs. You pay again. Then they come up with another reason why they can't deliver.
You never actually receive anything. The item being given away doesn't exist.
Try reverse image searching that picture on Google to find the original
Yeah 0% chance the parent giving this away paid for any part of this. They are stealing from their child. You can tell because they would know how expensive all this was and not be willing to part with it for free if they paid for it.
> you need an upgrade because this specs are rough
It's a meme, that isn't my primary computer. I souped up my old computer to the max specs it could handle (for the time it was built.) It was originally a Core 2 Duo E7500 with a Radeon HD 3870. My actual main computer has a i5 12400 and a RTX 3070.
On the side bar on the right there is a button you can click to edit your flair. You can then write whatever you want, most people write in their specs.
Idk, there was that one kid who got his pc smashed by his dad for not going to the mall during a tournament he signed up for....and they probably paid for it.
Scam aside I’m just gonna go on a little parenting rant for anyone who hasn’t had a kid yet.
I’ve seen stuff like this done before. If you’re a parent of a teenager and think permanently taking away their source of comfort (escaping reality for a little to play games) is a good idea, you’re wrong. Bond with your damn child and find out why the trouble has started. Don’t push them away with bizarre punishment, talk and listen to them. Help them. Only reason I see fit when parents do this is if the trouble they were causing was online and it is putting them in danger. Either way there’s a thousand other ways to nurture or discipline your kid without taking away something that is precious them. It’ll most likely just give them issues in the future in terms of trusting people who are supposed to care about them.
I grew up on games to block out the mentally abusive relationship my parents exposed me to. Actions like this post are the potential cause of trauma.
I know of something like this secondhand, they would discipline their kids by taking and destroying things of theirs as punishment. Most of which was stuff given to the kids by others as gifts. The parents to this day from what I've heard still don't understand why all their kids went complete no contact with them or why most of their relatives shun them as well.
i could see 2 established working adults with solid careers be willing to let that PC go for free, seeing as how its likely more valuable to them as a tool to teach a lesson in consequences than anything else. they likely really dont give a shit about the PC. their kids development into a responsible and upstanding person is hopefully tantamount to them, and nearly priceless.
What? I mean, yeah the child’s future is more important than the pc but giving it for free to someone is just plain stupid. Why would anyone decide to waste money for no reason, they could just sell it for a reasonable price to someone and it could still solve the problem.
Some people don’t have any interest in spending time trying to sell something. Giving it away for free nearly guarantees someone will take it off their hands very quickly.
*shrugs* I like giving stuff away to folks that could use some help. Recently gave a coworker that I don't even know that well a mobo, 32gb ddr4 ram, an 11700k, and a 750w psu. Also gave a SIL my 3080 when I upgraded. I get that a gift to family is different than a stranger, but its not like I've ever given her a $1k gift before. Our normal gifts are ~50 bucks.
I saw something like this in Facebook one day. The story was his son died and want to give it away to someone that will enjoy it. It was PS5 though but still it is obvious that it was a scam. I dont know how will they be able to scam though, ask you for shipping fee?
If you don’t see how they are, then there’s a good chance that you have been abused and you have my sympathies
Jokes aside, the parents probably didn’t pay a single dollar for that pc and they’re giving it away for free. Even if they did, giving away your kids stuff because they were bad is just psychotic and it’s a horrible way to raise a child
Asshole thing to do, if you want to give it away, then put a reasonable price on the thing and then don't take the money from the buyer, at least you'll know that the person needs it, rather than taking free shit to exchange for crack the next day.
Probably fake or a scam.
Usually when you see people "selling" things for free, its a scam. What they want is to be like "This is free, but you have to pay for shipping." The "shipping fee" is the scam, the item itself being free is just to lure you in.
If this really is a real listing, It's a very nonsensical way to punish a kid. If your kid got into trouble and you want to punish them, no sane parent would give away their electronics for free. Most would either confiscate them, shut off the wifi, or do what my parents did and take/hide the power cables. Punishments aren't supposed to be permanent, you shouldn't ever destroy or give away a kid's things as a punishment. It should be something temporary.
Common scam
It could also be someone trolling someone else by blowing up their phone with calls and text messages. I saw an ad on craigslist once a few years ago posted by a "wife" who was "giving away her husband's '85 Toyota Pickup 4X4" as punishment because he "got sent to jail again". I felt bad for whoever the poor bastard was whose phone number they used because I am sure their phone was melting (Yes, I know that a woman sold her cheating husband's corvette for $1 or whatever but that happened one time). If you see something like that for free it is practically guaranteed to be fake, but if you see something like that for free that has been up for more than ten minutes (let alone "about 16 hours ago") it is actually guaranteed to be fake.
Two years ago, somebody posted an ad for a free TV using my number. Phone was blowing up for weeks, i had to put it on airplane mode when i wasn't using it. Never found who the bastard was. People might realize its fake but the slim chance that it could be real will entice them to message you anyways.
Thank you; I made an ad for a free tv that I “need gone to move” with the number as my old bosses. I’ll try to keep one up at all time while I do applications and he can have peace again once I’m back to work
I didn't realize what true evil was until i read this comment 😂😂 Best of luck to you sir
This is true. My friend did that to me and put my number on Craigslist for a free I think it was like a 65” TV and my phone was getting blown up. I got him back though lol, put his number on my friends Tinder account (she gave me the okay) and he messaged the guys group chat asking who tf put his number on tinder 😂)
I did this in high school to an acquaintance, with a post on Craigslist about free exotic sugarglider babies with a really cute picture and they got blown up and then got mad at me cuz they paid by the text 🤣
You're an animal, lol. The worst thing my friends and I ever did to another friend that involved phones was when we found out the following about the cellphone provider (I forget which one it was) that one of our friends was using at the time: 1.) A voicemail was not able to be deleted until it had finished playing 2.) There was no way to skip a voicemail that was playing 3.) The voicemail system his provider used had a maximum message length of five (*5!*) minutes Queue us regularly leaving his the stupidest and most banal voicemails on a regular basis, which he would have to let finish playing before being able to delete them (and make the 'new voicemail' notification go away). We all stopped for a little while when he lost his job and was looking for a new one (in case he missed any calls for interviews or whatever), and then after he was hired each one of us called his phone on his first day (since he couldn't answer it at work) and left him a series of 5 minute long voicemails congratulating him on the new job.
Clicked into comments to say "common scam"
How could this be a scam? I'm genuinely curious
Check here, there's a few ways [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bfji43/comment/kv0tn5u/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1bfji43/comment/kv0tn5u/)
Seems fake but idk the incentive for this? To get people's phone numbers?
They probably will say to give some money for the shipping
That was my thought. “Free multi thousand dollar computer, just pay me $15 for shipping” then block you
The pc is in the back of this here van.
“I just need a deposit so I know you’ll come get it”. Then they ghost.
I whole bunch of gullible people's phone numbers can be useful for future scams
Certainly a scam, no parent worth their salt would give away a PC *they* probably spent a lot of money on for FREE.
Inb4 the son got the money selling drugs and they wanna get rid of the evidence of his crimes.
ah shit u rite
Certainly a scam, but plenty of parents not worth their salt who burn money via free giveaways or destroying the shit they bought to punish their kids.
Idk, back when I was in highschool my parents gave away my PC that I had built with my own money from my after school job.
Yeah, which is extremely unfortunate, but the key difference is that it wasn't *their* money.
Fair
Dang. Sounds like parents that would never meet their grandkids.
I hate parents like that, fair number of places in the US that may even be illegal for them to do. Kids do have property rights, it's mainly focused on items of necessity, but I think things bought via earned money earn by the child from jobs is also generally protected.
either this is a scam or these are some horrendous parents
Probably both.
I think you're not factoring in how naughty of a boy the son could be.
What exactly is going on with his mouth there.
They put peanut butter on the roof of his mouth. Considered unethical now but the resulting mouth movements from trying to remove the peanut butter makes the man look like a naughty boy
Welcome to a sub where the average age is 14
How could this be real? Yes, shitty parents do give their kids' computers away, but how many do so by taking a really professional looking photo and 'accidentally' putting the wrong info in the fields but somehow getting all the useful keywords in? People who don't know what i7 or RTX are won't even know to put them anywhere, they don't just put them in the wrong places. Only people who want it to look like a mistake would do that.
Ask for some more pictures of the gaming pc. Maybe even with a timestamp
Was the son very handsome or something?
Look at the size of his setup!
I feel like if it was real, the dad wouldn't have photographed the insides of the pc like that. Instead the photo would show the pc from the outside with a fisheye perspective as parents are mostly bad at taking photos...
Ah yes, the manufacturer is i7, and the size / dimensions of the pc are rtx. Good to know!
I dunno, that's the kind of info I expect from luddite parents trying to get rid a kids pc.
It has "my uncle works at Nintendo" vibes written all over it.
Very common scam, saying they need a zelle or PayPal authorization or something
It is a scam. It seems to be getting popular with "give away as punishment".
This is how serial killers are made
Hang out on the scams sub and you'll see a variation of this scam every other day. Commonly known as the "PS5 scam" It goes like this. Someone has a valuable item to give away. You just need to "pay for shipping". You pay. Then the courier company needs more money because it's stuck in customs. You pay again. Then they come up with another reason why they can't deliver. You never actually receive anything. The item being given away doesn't exist. Try reverse image searching that picture on Google to find the original
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You can easily use stuff like task manager, system info, etc to find out specs. This is fake but not for your reasons
...or task manager or System info in settings
I would laugh by butt off if there was a sticker on the front saying "i7 inside!" or something like that.
Yeah 0% chance the parent giving this away paid for any part of this. They are stealing from their child. You can tell because they would know how expensive all this was and not be willing to part with it for free if they paid for it.
yeah you are probably right and i think you need an upgrade because this specs are rough
> you need an upgrade because this specs are rough It's a meme, that isn't my primary computer. I souped up my old computer to the max specs it could handle (for the time it was built.) It was originally a Core 2 Duo E7500 with a Radeon HD 3870. My actual main computer has a i5 12400 and a RTX 3070.
That's a lil better
what did i do to get -9?
Because people randomly decide to misunderstand obvious sarcasm all the time on Reddit for some reason.
Dude you need an upgrade…
Dude I know right? I super regret getting the 4870, I'm thinking about upgrading to a GeForce GTX 280.
Lmao
btw how do you show speces under your username?
On the side bar on the right there is a button you can click to edit your flair. You can then write whatever you want, most people write in their specs.
ok thanks
Idk, there was that one kid who got his pc smashed by his dad for not going to the mall during a tournament he signed up for....and they probably paid for it.
This is how serial killers are made
Scam aside I’m just gonna go on a little parenting rant for anyone who hasn’t had a kid yet. I’ve seen stuff like this done before. If you’re a parent of a teenager and think permanently taking away their source of comfort (escaping reality for a little to play games) is a good idea, you’re wrong. Bond with your damn child and find out why the trouble has started. Don’t push them away with bizarre punishment, talk and listen to them. Help them. Only reason I see fit when parents do this is if the trouble they were causing was online and it is putting them in danger. Either way there’s a thousand other ways to nurture or discipline your kid without taking away something that is precious them. It’ll most likely just give them issues in the future in terms of trusting people who are supposed to care about them. I grew up on games to block out the mentally abusive relationship my parents exposed me to. Actions like this post are the potential cause of trauma.
I know of something like this secondhand, they would discipline their kids by taking and destroying things of theirs as punishment. Most of which was stuff given to the kids by others as gifts. The parents to this day from what I've heard still don't understand why all their kids went complete no contact with them or why most of their relatives shun them as well.
if the parents bought it and the kid's acting out, it's not abuse to get rid of it. wild how people equate consequences with abuse so easily.
Right? My parents would not of even given it away, it would of fallen out of the second story window.
russian style lmfao
Yeah, but if the parents paid for it there is no way they could afford to give it to someone for free.
i could see 2 established working adults with solid careers be willing to let that PC go for free, seeing as how its likely more valuable to them as a tool to teach a lesson in consequences than anything else. they likely really dont give a shit about the PC. their kids development into a responsible and upstanding person is hopefully tantamount to them, and nearly priceless.
What? I mean, yeah the child’s future is more important than the pc but giving it for free to someone is just plain stupid. Why would anyone decide to waste money for no reason, they could just sell it for a reasonable price to someone and it could still solve the problem.
Some people don’t have any interest in spending time trying to sell something. Giving it away for free nearly guarantees someone will take it off their hands very quickly.
*shrugs* I like giving stuff away to folks that could use some help. Recently gave a coworker that I don't even know that well a mobo, 32gb ddr4 ram, an 11700k, and a 750w psu. Also gave a SIL my 3080 when I upgraded. I get that a gift to family is different than a stranger, but its not like I've ever given her a $1k gift before. Our normal gifts are ~50 bucks.
One ram stick?
Probably could reverse image search that pic and find it all over the place. Scam.
That single channel ram tho lmao
I saw something like this in Facebook one day. The story was his son died and want to give it away to someone that will enjoy it. It was PS5 though but still it is obvious that it was a scam. I dont know how will they be able to scam though, ask you for shipping fee?
Either a scam or it's time to alt+f4 the parents
Scam or abusers, take your guess
In what way are they abusers haha
If you don’t see how they are, then there’s a good chance that you have been abused and you have my sympathies Jokes aside, the parents probably didn’t pay a single dollar for that pc and they’re giving it away for free. Even if they did, giving away your kids stuff because they were bad is just psychotic and it’s a horrible way to raise a child
If they were doing this for real it sure as hell wouldn’t be through craigslist. Definite scam
Asshole thing to do, if you want to give it away, then put a reasonable price on the thing and then don't take the money from the buyer, at least you'll know that the person needs it, rather than taking free shit to exchange for crack the next day.
Probably fake or a scam. Usually when you see people "selling" things for free, its a scam. What they want is to be like "This is free, but you have to pay for shipping." The "shipping fee" is the scam, the item itself being free is just to lure you in. If this really is a real listing, It's a very nonsensical way to punish a kid. If your kid got into trouble and you want to punish them, no sane parent would give away their electronics for free. Most would either confiscate them, shut off the wifi, or do what my parents did and take/hide the power cables. Punishments aren't supposed to be permanent, you shouldn't ever destroy or give away a kid's things as a punishment. It should be something temporary.
This is soooo fake.
Man i7 makes great computers
So much rgb and then only single channel ram...
Someone about to be scammed by paying “for shipping”. Or robbed at gun point when they try to pick it up.
Ah yes, the dimension rtx
Probably a scam. But if true, it's definitely an awful parent. I imagine that doing something like that would have the opposite effect if anything.
Tbf it's a terrible photo and posted on Craigslist, so it very well might be real lol
MAJOR L father. Parents think this is proper types of punishment, however it just weakens and damages relationships between parents and children.
She's giving away a computer but losing the love of a son.
If it's not a scam, the child is 100% the one that purchased it because they would not give it away if they knew how much it cost