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Re:I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon by Spooky23 on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:59PM (#14994703)
eBay fraudsters mastered this. They would buy and sell bullshit items like old postcards that would be shippable via first class mail, then wait a few months for the auction listings to expire, than sell a fake laptop or camera.

I was almost defrauded like this but refused the shipment and was able to claw the money back via chargeback at the cost of my PayPal account. With about 15 minutes of searching I was able to find networks of these phony sellers building up eBay points and running these scams.

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Re:I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon by macd on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:20PM (#14994828)
I remember there was an issue where you couldn't easily see a seller's recently sold items, only currently listed and items with feedback already received. So you couldn't see that this well-reviewed person selling an Xbox for a suspiciously low price just sold 30 other Xboxes in the past 48 hours.
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