Recently, a customer reported being cheated on eBay after buying what they believed to be a DualSense controller for the PS5, only to receive a custom Xbox controller with a white-like appearance painted in white.
Reddit user “crihyde” reported the scam for the first time in a post on the subreddit r / Playstation, where he shared an image that clearly shows a standard Xbox One controller customized in the style of the PS5 DualSense controller. It appears that the seller customized the controller using the bottom half of the black Xbox controller and the top half of the white Xbox controller, looking a bit like the PS5 controller.
Since the launch of the PS5, many unsuspecting fans have been victims of scammers on eBay. While buying on eBay is a risk, eBay has several customer protection schemes to protect buyers. While most salespeople are honest, there are sometimes a minority of outsourced salespeople looking to earn a quick buck by cheating the system.
Previously, many scammers were caught selling photos of PS5s, trying to trick customers in a hurry into buying a PS5 photo on the console’s MSRP. Since then, eBay has implemented several checks and has assured its users that they “certainly cracking down on those listings and taking legal action against those sellers. “