Had an eBay seller sell me refurbished hard drives as brand new. I purchased new Western Digital Red 5k, they sent refurbished 10k enterprise drives with 5k stickers.

High 99% feedback, large numbers marked as sold.

Ok contacting the seller saying I got refurbished drive with the reported drive stats I got abusive phone calls saying they have my address, they don’t sell fakes, they are going to come to my house and teach me a lesson calling the drive fakes. Turned out the registered address was 2000 km away at some random suburban residential address, the person on the phone had broken English phoning from a Thai phone number so I wasn’t to worried about that and laughed it off and said good luck.

I contacted eBay, left a poor review saying received fake goods, got threats of violence from the seller. eBay refunded my money and a week later my review was removed for the seller to continue scamming customers which must be many by the items sold and number of reviews.

I ignore positive reviews now. They are curated so not worth any substance if bad reviews get removed.