I have noticed that a scammer (buy_lowest) that I am currently dealing with has suddenly withdrawn all his auctions as well. Not sure how many but, there were pages of his current auctions this morning (All were 4gb MP4 players).
There can only be 2 explanations for the sudden departure.
1. Ebay finally took action against the users (aka abusers). I seriously doubt this as they have not done anything in the past. But, Perhaps enough people have complained - I know I have been emailing quite a bit regarding this scam.
2. The scammers are doing as they always have - ditch the account once too many negatives show. Start a new account and start selling hacked units again. Ebay has such relaxed policies, allowing full anonymity for the sellers. You don't even need an address to sell on Ebay. The scammer (buy_lowest) lists his street and city address as "default". Ebay doesn't seem to care as long as they get their cut of the profits.
I am leaning toward the second scenario as a simple Ebay search of "mp4 4gb" currently turns up 1965 items. Just about he same as when I did the search this AM.
Good luck to all.
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