Since there's another thread on MR, with a seller who had 60 such "stolen Kindles", maybe the whole situation isn't just about items that were stolen off someone's doorstep, but rather slipped out of the official Amazon distribution channel?
There are quite a few possibilities, apart from actual theft:
- items that were lost in transport
- items that were meant only as test/sample items
- items that didn't pass quality control
- items that weren't meant to be distributed in the USA
etc.
I can imagine that in such scenarios Amazon would blacklist the items, but at the same time won't report them to the police. I am not sure what legal consequences this could have, but perhaps this would be situated in the "gray market" realm rather than "theft".
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