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eBay has become the place for scalpers to sell overpriced wares, after they emptied store shelves. From toilet paper to graphics cards, that’s where the buyout stock, sell for profit happened.

Now even without shortages, this philosophy persists at eBay. Nothing to lose for them, free money to make on uninformed buyers.

Worst case they end up not selling and can possibly return items for full refund.

Scummery at it’s finest

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MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Worst case they end up not selling and can possibly return items for full refund.

They’ve gotten smarter, and in some cases don’t even acquire the original item until they have a buyer. It’s basically arbitrage for shipping at that point.

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- 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well, that is smart.
  
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- Hoomod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Technically you can report those, but ebay should just be automatically taking those listings down
  
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