{"id":291,"date":"2026-04-12T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/out-of-curiosity-i-bought-a-camera-on-ebay-knowing-it-was-likely-a-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:51:47","slug":"out-of-curiosity-i-bought-a-camera-on-ebay-knowing-it-was-likely-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/out-of-curiosity-i-bought-a-camera-on-ebay-knowing-it-was-likely-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Curiosity, I Bought a Camera on eBay Knowing It Was Likely a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/04\/12\/out-of-curiosity-i-bought-a-camera-on-ebay-knowing-it-was-likely-a-scam\/\"><img width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A digital illustration of a Hasselblad camera with colorful pixelated and glitch effects, blending purple, pink, blue, and black tones in a modern, abstract style.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Out-of-Curiosity-I-Bought-a-Camera-on-eBay-Knowing-It-Was-Likely-a-Scam-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you browse cameras on eBay, you\u2019ve likely come across a deal that looked too-good-to-be-true: high-end, new, shiny, bargain basement price, and offered for sale by a seller with zero feedback. In the interest of research (and curiosity) I bought one of these cameras on eBay knowing I would likely be scammed. I wasn&#8217;t disappointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/04\/12\/out-of-curiosity-i-bought-a-camera-on-ebay-knowing-it-was-likely-a-scam\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you browse cameras on eBay, you\u2019ve likely come across a deal that looked too-good-to-be-true: high-end, new, shiny, bargain basement price, and offered for sale by a seller with zero feedback. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}