Conspicuous private seller with a lot of new iPhones | Members help members

farbenzauber_342 · 2026-01-21T15:35:52.882000Z

Hello everyone,I’d like to get an assessment or ask the community a question.I’m currently looking for a new iPhone 17 Pro and came across a seller who is registered as private, but has listed around 150 different auctions with high-end smartphones.In the item descriptions and in the photos, original invoices from 1&1, Telekom, O2 and Vodafone can be seen. Visually, the devices therefore seem to actually be present and new.What makes me suspicious:How can a private individual get hold of this many new devices with invoices? To me, that seems very unusual. I explicitly do not want to accuse the seller of anything, but you do keep reading – e.g. also in the O2 community – about stolen phone parcels.So my questions:• Do you also find this suspicious, or are there plausible explanations for it?• From when on does something like this actually count as commercial, even if it is listed as “private”?• Where can or should one report something like this if you have a bad feeling, without accusing anyone too hastily?I won’t be buying there myself, but I do find the whole thing very suspicious and wanted to hear how you’d assess it.Thanks in advance for your opinions

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