Good point. It had his name and home address on the Best Buy label outside of the box. I couldn't confirm the address, but the name was the same.
Doesn't seem like it'd be worth the trouble to do that for 500 bucks.
Generally the way this works is folks will buy CC info online for surprisingly cheap and then just focus on turning those into actual cash.
Buying things online, having them shipped to a vacant house, and then selling them for cash is a classic way to do this.
You buy something online, and it seems to be a reasonable price. Maybe 40% less than the listed price. So instead of paying $1000, you pay $600. Nice, you think. You scored a great bargain. You buy it, and the product gets shipped to you, all new and everything.
Fantastic! You think. You scored a great deal.
But behind the scenes, what happened is that seller bought it with a stolen credit card, at normal prices. Then sold it to you at the cheaper price. He pockets the $600. The vendor gets paid the $1000. But the guy whose stolen credit card got used, now gets hit with a mysterious $1000 bill. Poor guy. Now he has to file a police report, and claim that he didn’t make this fraudulent purchase, and turn his life upside down for a few months.
Sometimes, it’s best to not trust online sales.