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BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold
Jul 16, 2012 04:32 PM

I recently purchased a used Gypsy on eBay that came loaded with about 30 cartridges.  I thought I got a good deal - $299 for a unit that usually costs $200 plus about $300 worth of cartridges.  Unfortunately PC has placed limits on the Gypsy that prevent the unit from being resold, with or without digital content.  The purchaser of the original unit is bound by the EULA to not resell the unit.  PC prevents any one except the original purchaser from loading new cartridges to the unit or from syncing it up with a new Cricut Craft Room account.  Sure, I can use the thing to design and cut using my Expression or my Imagine machines, but only using the images the original owner loaded on the unit.  I cannot add any of my cartridges.  This is not how I intended to use the unit when I purchased it.  I even asked the seller to confirm that I could sync it with my CCR account and with my cartridges and she assured me that PC told her I could.

 

There are a number of auctions running all the time for used Gypsy units, some with cartirdges and some without.  eBay needs to remove these auctions so that others dont have the horrible experience I have just had.

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BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold

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BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold
Jul 16, 2012 04:32 PM

I recently purchased a used Gypsy on eBay that came loaded with about 30 cartridges.  I thought I got a good deal - $299 for a unit that usually costs $200 plus about $300 worth of cartridges.  Unfortunately PC has placed limits on the Gypsy that prevent the unit from being resold, with or without digital content.  The purchaser of the original unit is bound by the EULA to not resell the unit.  PC prevents any one except the original purchaser from loading new cartridges to the unit or from syncing it up with a new Cricut Craft Room account.  Sure, I can use the thing to design and cut using my Expression or my Imagine machines, but only using the images the original owner loaded on the unit.  I cannot add any of my cartridges.  This is not how I intended to use the unit when I purchased it.  I even asked the seller to confirm that I could sync it with my CCR account and with my cartridges and she assured me that PC told her I could.

 

There are a number of auctions running all the time for used Gypsy units, some with cartirdges and some without.  eBay needs to remove these auctions so that others dont have the horrible experience I have just had.

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by antq.freak (6317 ) View Listings
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Re: BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold
Jul 16, 2012 08:13 PM

Did you recieve the cartridges with the gypsy?  If you did, then your information from cricut was incorrect.  You can sell them, but you must sell them together.  If she sold you the gypsy and someone else the cartridges, then you are both out of luck.  You can only use what is on the gypsy, and whoever bought the cartridges will never be able to load them to CCR or to a future gypsy....

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Re: BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold
Jul 16, 2012 08:15 PM

Additionally if you purchased this on EBAY and you clarified thru the EBAY system prior to purchase you may be able to file a SNAD case and return it.  Have you contacted your seller and informed them they were wrong and asked to return for a refund?

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Re: BUYERS BEWARE - Gypsy's Cannot Be Resold
Jul 20, 2012 01:34 PM

I see those gypsy auctions alot and I am suprised that Cricut/Provocraft hasn't shut them down since that is such a copyright violation.


Michelle

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