PSP Downgrader for sale on eBay?

Posted Dec 28, 2006 at 6:11PM by QJ Staff Listed in: PSP Tags: Dark-AleX, downgrade, eBay, homebrew community
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Hurrr....?


Tsk, tsk.

It seems that it's not just the devotees of the PSP homebrew community">homebrew community">homebrew community who are benefiting from the hard work of devs like Dark_AleX and his friends; it looks like some entrepreneurs are also cutting in on the action.

As proof, one of our readers, Lord Pleb, gave us the heads up about this rather awkward auction that he spotted over at eBay which promises to have your PSP downgraded in five minutes. The seller won't actually do the downgrading for you, but rather, he's compiled the applications and files that you need to downgrade your PSP yourself.

 
 
 

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by Stan Smith - 2006-12-28 13:11
» Wow

wow what people will go so far just to make money from something free

by bob - 2006-12-28 13:19
» gay

some cheap *****got

by encg - 2006-12-28 13:20
» Wow

Look at his feedback! WOW. I've seen a lot of these on eBay when I was looking to buy a PSP, but never knew people actually fell for them

by poorwhitetrash - 2006-12-28 13:21
» huh

It is amazing how pozers try to profit from others hard work.

by Buyer - 2006-12-28 13:29
» wow

I'm buying it wright now THANK YOU GUYS YOU ARE TEH BEST I LOVE YOU !. I'M BUYIING 50 DOWNGRADERS THANK YOU AGAIN ILOVE YOU PSPUPDATES>COM YOU ARE TEH BEST.



Regardsm one happy buyer.

by What an ass!! - 2006-12-28 13:29
» Report the fudgepacker

Report any of these assclowns to ebay and they will remove the sale.

by axelixc - 2006-12-28 13:30
» Ouch

dis sucks. ppl fallen into pray r real moron.

by eyalien - 2006-12-28 13:31
» hey

what the hell?? He should go to hell for selling someones hard work to help us do things on the psp..

by Flight - 2006-12-28 13:33
» how many

i just want to know how many he has sold for real

by yay - 2006-12-28 13:34
» yay

yay i bought it!! 1.5 here i come!! i have 1.5 and you dont!

by RommelTJ - 2006-12-28 13:35
» buy it

buy it, leave negative feedback, and then don't pay. That should teach the a-hole.

by Paka - 2006-12-28 13:37
» They Cant

Don't get me wrong, I think he is an absoloute ***** too. But technically hes not doing anything wrong. If you dont want to buy it you dont have to

by DaCap - 2006-12-28 13:38
» why pay for the cow

why pay for the cow

when you can get the milk for free

whoever wins the auction isn't too smart

should auction a link to QJ.Net! start it at $1K...

the things you think are precious i just cant understand.

by poorwhitetrash - 2006-12-28 13:42
» ebay

ebay item 190066612667 is another d!ck trying to profit from someone elses hard work!

by BUYER - 2006-12-28 13:43
» Dumb&Boring

I JUST BOUGHT 50downgraders ! I"M SO HAPPY yous guys! I'm selling them at double the size !





Great deal !

by blackmobb - 2006-12-28 13:46
» Wow old news

People have been selling homebrew, emulators, downdaters, and so much more for a long time on ebay. This is OLD!!!! news....

by ComposMentis - 2006-12-28 13:46
» What they're doing is illegal...

Because you have to use the 1.5 files, which have restrictions on distribution. For that reason alone eBay can yank their listing.

by Pholly - 2006-12-28 13:51
» F'n b*tch

This pisses me off so bad, it's because of people like that so many coders leave the "scene". I'm reporting them to ebay, not sure if it'll do any good but if enough of us do it then it will.

by BUYER - 2006-12-28 13:52
» Excited !

I HAVE JUST SPOKE WITH THAT NICE GUY. ALL THE DOWNGRADERS ARE SHINY AND NEW.



HE SAID THAT HE WORKS FOR MIRCOSOFT AND HE IS A PROGRAMER ON PSPS. HE WILL MAKE ME A DISCOUNT ON WINDOWS XPSP (HE IS WORKING ON THAT, OH AND VISTASP TOO BUT THAT IS A TOO BIG A SECRET !!! )



HE IS A NICE GUY HE EVEN GIVE ME A 2$ DISCOUNT FOR THE 50 DOWNGRADERS THAT I BOUGHT !!



GET THEM WHILE IT IS HOT ! THE STOCK IS gETTING LOW AND THE GUY IS A REAL SWEETHEART !

by KRaCKA - 2006-12-28 13:55
» wow.

I realise this is what the world is but this is sad. I think its horrible that that person could make money off of someone elses hard work. I dont think Dark_Alex is a god. But i think he is a revolutionary to the PSP Homebrew Community. He has helped my PSP be my only friend :( but seriously. The PSP would be nothing without Homebrew. Thank you Dark_Alex and all the others like Ookm and Art... theres alot to mention but some of these people are the ones that come to mind. LOL. What i said sounds so EMO.

by Mr. Common Sense - 2006-12-28 14:19
» ha

At first it could have been a little bit funny but now it's getting old and time to STFU. Thank you.

by Pal - 2006-12-28 14:25
» Hmm

Let's not forget the many DVDs on sale filled with PSP ISOs.



I've even seen Wii/PS3 Tracker links for sale. A LINK to the tracker that they didn't make. Disgusting.

by Chewieshmoo - 2006-12-28 14:28
» So what.........

Ya know, I have a different response to this. If someone is stupid enogh to pay this guy for info/files available widely online for free with just a little common sense then hell, good for the seller. I learned a long time ago BUYER BEWARE, there is a sucker born every minute and if you allow yourself to be taken advantage of then you have no one to blame but yourself.............

by Chw42 - 2006-12-28 14:56
» This is Sad

This mofo is stealin someone else's work! WTF? DAX and the other developers need to patent this stuff. This is plagarism for god sakes. Who in their right minds would buy it anyhow? There's hundreds of sites hosting the downgrader right now! O the dumb people in this world.

by - - 2006-12-28 14:58
» -

so far i've made about 1000 pounds selling downgraders and emulators. its the best. only been doing it for about 3 months.



Thanks qj.net

by Lisa - 2006-12-28 15:06
» Item number: 170063965774

Item number: 170063965774



Selling for charity 40%



still not right

by . - 2006-12-28 15:12
» .

You're a moron.

by . - 2006-12-28 15:15
» .

Dark_alex should distribute his work with a license or something.

by PurpleShadow - 2006-12-28 15:55
» @ Buyer

I'm pretty sure that he was being sarcastic

by Task514 - 2006-12-28 16:01
» Dumb buyers!! good for you!

I think I'm gonna start selling links to amazing search engines... yeah search for whatever you need!!



When the bidder wins... I'll tell them:"ok, don't tell anyone! the secret search engines are Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com... Thanks for purchasing"



Betcha some idiots gonna buy it...

by kloy - 2006-12-28 16:11
» Old news...

Ebay is selling isos...

look here: (just if you speak spanish)



http://articulo.*****.com.mx/MLM-13942803-paquete-de-reyes-pa-psp-juegos-y-peliculas-envio-gratis-nv6-_JM



and there is alot more...

by kloy - 2006-12-28 16:15
» this one

http://articulo.*****.com.mx/MLM-13942803-paquete-de-reyes-pa-psp-juegos-y-peliculas-envio-gratis-nv6-_JM

by ni99er - 2006-12-28 16:29
» ya

im buyen 1 rite naw

by eyalien - 2006-12-28 17:55
» hey

I don't know what they are doing selling someone elses work, but why do that?? Why can't they respect other people works.. I have respect for other peoples work and i thank them alot for their hard work on making psp the greatest psp in the world.. The only thing people can do is pay the people who does this kind of stuff for free my guess they want to help other and that's sweet but they need some cash because i guess they don't work and they stay in their house working 24/7 codec da psp... My point is why pay this punk for selling someone elses work if we can pay poeple like dark alex and the rest of the guyz some money for their hard work.. we all love u dark alex and the rest of the guyz.. keep up the hard work and o ya have a happy new years..

by CCS - 2006-12-28 18:06
» Stupid Buyers

I bet some stupid person would buy a readme on downgrading

by ANOCK14258@BTINTERNET.COM - 2006-12-28 18:33
» ANOCK14258@BTINTERNET.COM

ANOCK14258@BTINTERNET .COM



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by Topato - 2006-12-28 18:36
» j

There really is no license on the software, so what he's doing is perfectly legal. Even if it was Open-Source, GNU license allows for the software to be resold.

by lol - 2006-12-28 18:36
» psp

"i thank them alot for their hard work on making psp the greatest psp in the world"



lmfao!

by Uzumaki-kun - 2006-12-28 19:07
» ...

mind your own business leave that person alone if you don't want it then shut up, quit whining and move on.

by Nick - 2006-12-28 20:23
» You know..

To be honest, if you are dumb enough to buy that, then its your fault. You guys can ***** all you want about how unfair this is to DAX (and it really IS too!), but the fact is that in the market world, your goal is to sell no matter what. "Buyer beware" friends. Its the buyers fault if they couldn`t google "PSP downgrader", you know? After all.. this guy`s just providing a service. No different than some guy waxing cars with wax he didn`t make, you know?

by Blazta - 2006-12-28 20:39
» feel sorry for this people

if any 1 gets their real adress they are in deep trouble.. ;D

like 187 or somtheing heheh.

by report them - 2006-12-28 21:46
» simply report them to ebay trust and safety

I just reported all of those auctions to ebay trust and safety, you should do the same. It's very easy!



http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/duplication-copy-protected-material.html



Shut down the people selling these.

by me - 2006-12-28 22:27
» me

well he is from *****ing sadwell town, west bromwich so it's hardly a suprise is it that the gypo's trying to make money on something that was free.

by xche78x - 2006-12-29 00:38
» so i bet

he just hope he can fool someone, and i think he probably did and not just someone, out of the billions of humans on the face of the earth, many people will fall for it. sad but true

by fasdfase - 2006-12-29 01:15
» afefeaaef

Theres a lot of these things in sweden thought. At the farmers site www.blocket.se

by Bob - 2006-12-29 06:26
» dumb

If you're dumb enough to buy somthing free off ebay ,well then i hope you're psp bricks.

by Task514 - 2006-12-29 11:26
» Just like....

This is just like those people selling links on how to get a free PS3, PSP and so on... links to outlet stores, links on how to make a 50" tv, links on how to make money... pretty dumb. but the dumber pays for these.

by hehe - 2006-12-30 10:19
» what's the problem ??

i don't think this a problem, since some people are really noobs and don't even know to run HenD (for example). So that the ebay seller sells all the programms include detail manual which help the noobs alot



why must we report them to ebay trust and safety ?? because they are illegal ??? then who are we ?? 99% people here play their PSP with ILLEGAL ISO/CSO



so long

by jr - 2007-01-04 13:19
» omg

thats stupid, isent it free to download a downgrader!?!?!?!?!

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