Originally Posted by base2

Something smelled fishy. That's all.
A savvy shop owner would've broke them down & sold the hoops & DT 240's at cost as customer returns rather than the whole thing as a loss. Or given it to an employee & taken the tax benefit as a charitable contribution or counted it as inventory shrinkage at full value or some other means.

There is a such thing as "too cheap."

As a guy in meatspace, the cyberspace end gave red flags of scam. Lord knows what my credit card number would sell for on the Schwarz Market.