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The term for this is "brushing". An actual seller made an actual sale and sent it to your address. The actual buyer was obviously not you. The actual buyer was
by mchannon 8y ago
The term for this is "brushing".
An actual seller made an actual sale and sent it to your address. The actual buyer was obviously not you. The actual buyer was either in cahoots with, or simply is, the seller.
Whatever platform they placed the order with (Aliexpress perhaps) will now give them (1) next to their name instead of (0), or more likely, (10001) instead of (10000).
Whether illegal in fact or not, I don't think it goes against the spirit of the law: Aliexpress and other platforms (even Amazon) incentivize this sort of behavior. In sending you that throwaway screw, they now are closer to qualifying for (or keeping) preferential seller status which is essential to survival on those platforms (better rates, etc.).
Throw the screw away, or keep it as a reminder that the 21st century's weird little perverse incentives drive people to do very illogical things.