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by dsr_ 775 days ago
Note that they list at least one vendor as selling "New" drives when they are not even close to being new.
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It's definitely scraped with a few simple queries and not moderated by a human, you have to manually check before buying of course. It just saves a few minutes of time automating the initial search.
I think there will eventually be a false advertising lawsuit or some regulatory action against Amazon about this. Until that happens, it’s hard to say for certain which items are used.