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by ewar-woowar 3525 days ago
eBay can't check the source of a 2nd hand item to discern if it is stolen.

Surely if there were landlords renting out entire apartment buildings then the sequential addresses would show up in AirBnB's data as mystreet 1a, mystreet 1b, mystreet 1c and so on? It must have been pretty obvious to the point that a routine check against illegal activity should have carried out.