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Well, Apple is literally not offering the M3 512GB studios currently. You can’t even back order one. They are selling on EBay for over $20k, used.

digitaltrees 5mo ago
It’s hard to know if any of these eBay listing are real or actual sales. Lots of scams.
- gbgarbeb 5mo ago
  The ones sold for $25k from established sellers are legit. Filter by "sold." The 0-reputation account in Spain selling an M3U 512GB for $4200 is 100% fraud.
  - digitaltrees 5mo ago
    oh young grasshopper, I see you dont know that money launderers love the ebay hype cycle. Its REALLY common on high dollar hot items to have phantom transactions where parties are on both sides of the transaction to clean illicit money. The high price tag and high volume amount of transactions hides the illicit signal. I have tried to buy a few of these mac studios only to have the transaction cancelled because I wasnt the dirty money on the other side.
    - gbgarbeb 5mo ago
      Bizarre. They don't care that eBay takes 14%?
      - swiftcoder 5mo ago
        14% seems like a pretty low fee to clean drug money, if we're being honest
      - rithdmc 5mo ago
        Traditional money laundering loses upwards of 40%, so hell yeah.
        encom 5mo ago
        What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?
    - bionsystem 5mo ago
      Funny, they have the "honesty" to cancel the transaction and not take your money, just to keep their ebay reputation high ?
      - razakel 5mo ago
        eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.
    - rithdmc 5mo ago
      The transaction was cancelled? Sounds like you weren't defrauded.
      - dpark 5mo ago
        GP didn’t say they were defrauded. They said the listing was a cover for laundering money.
        rithdmc 5mo ago
        "weren't scammed" might have been a better choice of words, which they said one post up.
        dpark 5mo ago
        Ah, I see what you mean now.
        digitaltrees 5mo ago
        I said there are lots of scam listings. And then discussed a second issue which is fake listings that are designed to launder money. There are both. Some of the fake listings are obvious: way under priced, listings for “original boxes” not the actual computer. So that’s why I don’t want to buy off of eBay for this category. But I did also buy what appeared to be a reasonable listing and it was canceled. I can’t prove why but two sided money laundering is a known thing

digitaltrees 5mo ago

It’s hard to know if any of these eBay listing are real or actual sales. Lots of scams.

gbgarbeb 5mo ago
The ones sold for $25k from established sellers are legit. Filter by "sold." The 0-reputation account in Spain selling an M3U 512GB for $4200 is 100% fraud.
- digitaltrees 5mo ago
  oh young grasshopper, I see you dont know that money launderers love the ebay hype cycle. Its REALLY common on high dollar hot items to have phantom transactions where parties are on both sides of the transaction to clean illicit money. The high price tag and high volume amount of transactions hides the illicit signal. I have tried to buy a few of these mac studios only to have the transaction cancelled because I wasnt the dirty money on the other side.
  - gbgarbeb 5mo ago
    Bizarre. They don't care that eBay takes 14%?
    - swiftcoder 5mo ago
      14% seems like a pretty low fee to clean drug money, if we're being honest
    - rithdmc 5mo ago
      Traditional money laundering loses upwards of 40%, so hell yeah.
      - encom 5mo ago
        What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?
  - bionsystem 5mo ago
    Funny, they have the "honesty" to cancel the transaction and not take your money, just to keep their ebay reputation high ?
    - razakel 5mo ago
      eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.
  - rithdmc 5mo ago
    The transaction was cancelled? Sounds like you weren't defrauded.
    - dpark 5mo ago
      GP didn’t say they were defrauded. They said the listing was a cover for laundering money.
      - rithdmc 5mo ago
        "weren't scammed" might have been a better choice of words, which they said one post up.
        dpark 5mo ago
        Ah, I see what you mean now.
        digitaltrees 5mo ago
        I said there are lots of scam listings. And then discussed a second issue which is fake listings that are designed to launder money. There are both. Some of the fake listings are obvious: way under priced, listings for “original boxes” not the actual computer. So that’s why I don’t want to buy off of eBay for this category. But I did also buy what appeared to be a reasonable listing and it was canceled. I can’t prove why but two sided money laundering is a known thing