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by cowboysauce 2982 days ago
I honestly expected it to be 90% drugs, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the diversity of the items.
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It makes sense; people interested in drugs are presumably also interested in other things, and ordering drugs online somewhat implies a certain level of expendable income, so it'd be a decent marketplace for not-drugs. And I imagine drug-hobbyists probably have more diverse interests than the average person, as they've already expressed interests in the not-publicly safe hobbies (but likely still also have safe hobbies as well)
Perhaps the other items are sold as a kind of cover-up, somehow?
Knock-offs, and stolen merchandise are often sold by the same criminals who sell drugs. Aside from street dealers who are dealing to get their next fix, it’s not as though drug dealers have some need to restrict themselves to one lucrative market.
This occurs on eBay as well. (Note how many gift cards sell for well over their merchant-limited value... in cash or equivalent.)