A bit of a rant about eBay Sellers:
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I decided to do a little more poking around, and found something that bothered me. Firstly, the listing was re-listed after being sold (I've been watching it for a while to see what would happen) with the exact same pictures.
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While some of the other points are valid concerns, the relist/same-picture may be just for convenience.
Tons of times, I have seen "photo for illustration only" and cases where they merely relist than posted it new - perhaps eBay price concern, perhaps keeping certain counters active (number of views, number sold).
I don't know why a specific seller relist or reuse photo, but I have done it too and this was the reason:
Some time ago, I sold my Jazz backup "system", 2 drives and a dozen or so cartridges. When I first listed the drive as a pair, it didn't sell. I relisted as single and sold the first drive. Then I do it again to sell the second drive - tried first packaging 2nd drive with 4 cartridge and after no-go, relisted with lower minimum-bid but with single cartridge.
I also sold the cartridges in different configuration yet with the same photo. I separately sold a used-4-pack, an unopened-4-pack, and 4 loose singles all use this same picture. In this case, the photo was the unopened 4-pack sitting next to some opened singles front view and opened singles back view. The title alone describes if it was opened-4-pack, un-opened-4-pack, or single.
When I have doubts about the listing/seller, I like to ask them a question. First I want to find out if there is a knowledgeable person at the other end and second find out how responsive they are. That, I think, is a million times more telling than if it is a relist or same phone.