Kid gets phone book instead of PS3 for Xmas

**Shrygue** · December 27th, 2007, 20:12

via Engadget

It's certainly not the first time we've seen someone open the box to a pricey gadget only to find their hopes and dreams dashed by some unscrupulous individual that's swiped the device and replaced it by something similarly weighted but decidedly cheaper, but it just wouldn't be the holidays if we didn't bring you another account of the same wrong-doings happening again. This latest one comes to us from Thousand Oaks, California where one kid opened the box to the PlayStation 3 he got for Christmas and found a phone book in its place of his desired console. What's more, the PS3 wasn't bought on eBay or out of someone's trunk as you might expect, but at the local EB Games, where the kid's parents are apparently now doing their best to get things sorted out.

***wraggster*** · December 27th, 2007, 20:19

thats a tad rough on the kid, lets hope the wanker at EB Games gets sorted

**Shrygue** · December 27th, 2007, 20:30

Yeah, that really does take the mick. You pay some $500-$600 dollars for a Playstation 3 and land up with nothing but a phone book. That's a nasty trick to play on someone a customer. Let's hope the unscrupulous employee at that game store gets taken out!