I buy "some technical objects" which have 2 circuit boards, 1 plugged into the 2nd. The 2nd board is bigger and surrounds the 1st, its a weird board that is basically an adapter to make the 1st compatible with servers and is entirely useless to me (can't even seem to sell them).
I unplug the 1st board, remove some model numbers (you brand your merchandise, I unbrand mine) and sell boards these to laptop users (with which they are fully compatible and working after the modifications).
Additionally, the single board shares a model number with the assembly of 2 boards... However one of the modifications I do consists of changing the "firmware" of the board which changes the actual hardware IDs as they show in the system. So I don't sell them based that model number but rather one I have chosen, in fact one from a different product line (though not a different manufacturer of course).
Also additionally, my merchandise is originally branded as 1 company, similar to Dell, and I market entirely to other laptop brands which are somewhat more rare and high end.
I know what you're thinking, it sounds like I'm admitting to being a complete scammer, but the merchandise is NOT fa ked. The HARDWARE is the same at the very base level, so when all's said and done it functions exactly the same as "the real thing". There is actually no way I know of to determine that they were anything other than the real thing.
You can't really fa ke computer parts if they work. But this is somewhat beside my point.
For all these reasons, I think my case is an exception. I buy and sell them on the same ebay account in large quantities.
The type of people who buy my items are EXTREMELY concerned with compatibility and (should) resort to visuals. The items as they are originally listed do not show the 1st circuit board or slot it fits in and do not have any of laptop brands I sell to or any of the compatibility information in the listing.
So, to make this seem like less of a threadjack, what I'm saying is you could always do something else to the T shirts to make it not so obvious that you were reselling the chinese sellers items, such as dying them or cutting long sleeved shirts to make short sleeved ones.
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