Worried I bought an item from a seller that used a stolen credit card to purchase from amazon

[alrobichaud1]

I purchased an CPU from ebay for $245.  It was listed as new, factory sealed.  The item location was listed as Hamilton Ontario.  The cheapest retail one that I could find was $304.99 + tax and shipping from Amazon.ca.  I looked at the sellers feedback and saw several of the same items that he had sold others.  I didn't think much of it at the time.  

It took the seller 8 days to finally ship the item after I messaged him twice.  He said he was in the hospital which is why he hadn't shipped it.  I patiently waited and finally received the item today.  To my surprise, it was shipped from Amazon's fulfillment center in Mississauga, Ontario.  

This immediately set off a few red flags for me since the cheapest on amazon was $60 more + tax and shipping.  I called ebay and spoke with a lady who said to not be concerned because people use ebay to drop ship.  Does this sound like someone used a stolen credit card to purchase it and used my address as a ship to address?

I looked closer at the sellers profile and he is apparently based in Lithuania. Could he have acquired a bunch of these cheap and then sent them to Canada to use amazon as a drop shipper? 

FYI, I opened the package without looking to closely at it and left positive feedback from my phone before realizing my item came from Amazon.  There was also no additional paperwork inside the package such as a receipt.  Also, the retail box looked a bit weathered even though it still had the factory AMD stickers intact showing it was not opened. 

[momcqueen]

This sounds to me more like a seller who also sells on Amazon and uses the Fulfilled By Amazon warehousing storage service. It has nothing to do with stolen credit cards. He's probably just shipping to you via his other store there.

[alrobichaud1]

Thanks for the reply. I didn't even know that Amazon had that service until I started researching this.  Maybe I just panicked when I saw the new, retail box item that shipped from Amazon that would have cost me $100 more if I had actually purchased it from amazon.  Though it was an unopened retail box, it was in a bit rougher shape than I would expect for a new item.  Perhaps, the CPU has had a few trips over seas before it was finally shipped to me. 

[momcqueen]

While it is off-putting to get an order in an Amazon box when you've bought it from someone on ebay, it does happen from time to time with certain sellers. Your seller is probably a medium-volume seller or might be a liquidator or refurbisher. Medium-sized sellers don't usually stick with only one sales stream/venue and the price difference is most likely due to the selling fees (and additional storage fees) being higher on amazon than they are to sell on ebay without any of its own fulfillment centres. From a third-party seller's standpoint, it costs less to sell something on ebay than it does on amazon so therefore the seller can price the same item less on ebay than on amazon and make the same profit. That is, in most categories. And for most items that are slightly post-market.