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by stygiansonic 2149 days ago
There are scammers who will buy the item, open the shrink wrap and remove the item before rewrapping it to make it look like they never opened it. This becomes more difficult if there are security seals.

See: https://lawyerrant.wordpress.com/favorite-scams/the-empty-bo...

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Does Amazon really maintain a database of products -> security seals and verify them when they come in?