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Because as the scammer once you have the payment from the purchaser, you don't care. And a 0.5TB disk would cut into your 'margins' on something like this.
by pwg 4y ago
Because as the scammer once you have the payment from the purchaser, you don't care. And a 0.5TB disk would cut into your 'margins' on something like this.
- dymk 4y agoGoing through the effort of hacking the firmware cuts into their margins. Why go through the effort when they already have your money at that point?
- sokoloff 4y agoYou have to minimize the customer returns in the first 30 days. Sending a brick gets lots of immediate returns and probably the device pulled from the shop. Making it look like it mostly works, enough to pass a 5-minute “is this a scam?” test probably even gets some legitimate users to write a 5-star “I can’t believe it’s true, but it is!” review.