u/Melodic_Shift_6692

European Hoarder data here.

I was browsing eBay looking for additional capacity when I came across this listing.

The seller is brand new (0 feedback), the price is extremely below market value, and multiple lots are available. The SMART screenshots actually look surprisingly clean (~35k-38k hours, zero reallocations/pending sectors, matching firmware/batch).

What confuses me is: assuming this could be a scam, what is the actual scam vector on eBay nowadays for HDDs like these?

• SMART reset/manipulated drives?
• Different drives shipped than advertised?
• Empty-box/tracking scam?
• Refurbished hyperscaler drives sold as cleaner stock?
• Hijacked seller account?

I’ve bought used enterprise drives before, but this pricing is so far below market that it feels suspicious even by datacenter liquidation standards.