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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 4mo 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 4mo ago
  Bizarre. They don't care that eBay takes 14%?
  - swiftcoder 4mo ago
    14% seems like a pretty low fee to clean drug money, if we're being honest
  - rithdmc 4mo ago
    Traditional money laundering loses upwards of 40%, so hell yeah.
    - encom 4mo ago
      What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?
- bionsystem 4mo ago
  Funny, they have the "honesty" to cancel the transaction and not take your money, just to keep their ebay reputation high ?
  - razakel 4mo ago
    eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.
- rithdmc 4mo ago
  The transaction was cancelled? Sounds like you weren't defrauded.
  - dpark 4mo ago
    GP didn’t say they were defrauded. They said the listing was a cover for laundering money.
    - rithdmc 4mo ago
      "weren't scammed" might have been a better choice of words, which they said one post up.
      - dpark 4mo ago
        Ah, I see what you mean now.
      - digitaltrees 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo ago
Bizarre. They don't care that eBay takes 14%?
- swiftcoder 4mo ago
  14% seems like a pretty low fee to clean drug money, if we're being honest
- rithdmc 4mo ago
  Traditional money laundering loses upwards of 40%, so hell yeah.
  - encom 4mo ago
    What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?
bionsystem 4mo ago
Funny, they have the "honesty" to cancel the transaction and not take your money, just to keep their ebay reputation high ?
- razakel 4mo ago
  eBay and PayPal almost always side with the buyer.
rithdmc 4mo ago
The transaction was cancelled? Sounds like you weren't defrauded.
- dpark 4mo ago
  GP didn’t say they were defrauded. They said the listing was a cover for laundering money.
  - rithdmc 4mo ago
    "weren't scammed" might have been a better choice of words, which they said one post up.
    - dpark 4mo ago
      Ah, I see what you mean now.
    - digitaltrees 4mo 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