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Author Topic: Empty box for sale on eBay  (Read 2222 times)

roseway

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Empty box for sale on eBay
« on: February 12, 2012, 10:02:56 AM »
This looks like the bargain of the decade, and only two of them left. But I'm not sure if they ship to the UK. ;D

Empty box for sale
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2012, 11:09:27 AM »
.... and on credit terms too!  $5 down and 6 months to pay!  Am I missing something?   :-\

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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2012, 11:11:37 AM »
Perhaps they have Aprils fools day on a different day in the States  ;D
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2012, 11:17:12 AM »
February plonkers day?   ;)

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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2012, 11:20:21 AM »
Quote from: roseway on February 12, 2012, 10:02:56 AM
This looks like the bargain of the decade, and only two of them left. But I'm not sure if they ship to the UK. ;D

Empty box for sale

Scroll down in the ad and:

No international shipping due to the expensive shipping cost.
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2012, 11:23:30 AM »
Oh that is a pity  :'( :'(
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2012, 11:25:40 AM »
That's a disappointment then. :(

Still, I've got a few similar boxes of my own, so maybe I should be thinking about putting them up for sale. ::)
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2012, 06:02:41 PM »
Even the Big Boys get busted for this scam.  They are selling their genuine retail boxes in the knowledge that they will be used to sell secondhand, repaired or even counterfeit items as new and BOXED.  In this case, the box is for a Nikon lens that costs around US$1000 new.

One of the largest PC sellers was reprimanded after being caught doing just this.  It was using a cut-out company for the arm's length sale of empty new boxes for its PCs. These were mostly for its suppliers who re-boxed returns and repairs and re-sold them as 'new'.


[1] http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-105mm-2-8G-ED-IF-Micro-Nikkor/dp/B000EOSHGQ
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2012, 06:34:53 PM »
Ah yes, it's a scam. That at least makes sense.
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2012, 06:46:48 PM »
Bah! there's nowt in it.
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Re: Empty box for sale on eBay
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2012, 07:41:05 PM »
Quote from: roseway on February 12, 2012, 06:34:53 PM
Ah yes, it's a scam. That at least makes sense.
Another possible 'market' would be the thief who steals a shop display model, or burgles it from a house or a car. He can greatly increase an item's value and saleability if he can supply it in 'original' packaging.   Although it's probably not the thief but his 'fence' who appreciates the potential value of the equipment by re-packaging it as "BNIB" (to use the ebay parlance).

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