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Economy isn't doing so well, maybe he needed money quickly.

Doesn't seem like it'd be worth the trouble to do that for 500 bucks.

Personally, I don't tend to purchase electronics online and then decide to sell them, unopened, in person instead of returning them.

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.

or simply doesn't know he could sell higher. Like I just have the (often wrong) mentality that electronic gadgets just deprecate right after you bought them. Quite surprised when learned that some of them worth more than retail price at secondhand market.

Sigh...