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withinboredomyesterday at 2:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

Worked with a guy that used this to his advantage. He sold CD's and DVD's through FBA. He would get them "new enough" looking via buffing them out (often making them unplayable), shrinkwrapping them, and then hope whomever got them wasn't him that got the commission for that sale and instead the person who bought "from him" got one of the actual new ones. He made a killing off of this since "used" inventory was incredibly cheap for a whole pallet of them.


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gottorfyesterday at 2:11 PM

By "used this to his advantage", it sounds like he was just a fraudster?

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xnorswapyesterday at 2:14 PM

Does this story have a happy ending such as a conviction for fraud?

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