02-11-2017, 06:51 PM
This might appeal to somebody trying to avoid some sales tax, or who lives in a country where the local prices are much higher than US prices.
This one is probably legitimate, but I often wonder when I see other stuff worth much less that is selling for dozens of times its real price, if there are money-laundering schemes going on via eBay. I "sell" you and thirty other "people" some pieces of junk for a couple of hundred bucks. each I deposit the proceeds that came from who-knows-where into an account and happily pay some income tax. That cash has instant legitimacy.
This one is probably legitimate, but I often wonder when I see other stuff worth much less that is selling for dozens of times its real price, if there are money-laundering schemes going on via eBay. I "sell" you and thirty other "people" some pieces of junk for a couple of hundred bucks. each I deposit the proceeds that came from who-knows-where into an account and happily pay some income tax. That cash has instant legitimacy.