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I purchased a newly released book the other day that was from a seller and listed way below market rate, order was cancelled and refunded within a couple of hou
by garethsprice 10y ago
I purchased a newly released book the other day that was from a seller and listed way below market rate, order was cancelled and refunded within a couple of hours. Noted the user had 2-3 of pieces of feedback from years ago, but appeared to have thousands of new books listed at crazy low prices that also presumably did not exist. Any idea what the scam is there?
Amazon Marketplace is a cesspool, definitely affects my confidence in the brand. I try and order items directly from Amazon now, but have heard that even those supply chains can contain a lot of co-mingled counterfeits.
- exolymph 10y agoIn that case it was maybe canceled and refunded because Amazon caught the scammer?
- garethsprice 10y agoNope they're still up, with 628 pages(!) of products that appear to be marked as "Currently Unavailable". Some sort of arbitrage or marketing bot? There's a lot of weirdness going on with Amazon Marketplace sellers, that's for sure.
- 8note 10y agoits a hacked account. they might be trying to disburse money before amazon notices/refunds or maybe some scam for manipulating the bucket box?
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- tyingq 10y agoSomebody testing the idea. Seeing how many purchases before they go through with the effort.