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Well, I agree that there's nothing morally wrong about it in the abstract (but I think gambling is quite all right too, if the rules are on the up and up), but we don't know that they're not cheating.

They could have people acting as shills, "winning" the items and ensuring that no goods ever have to actually be delivered, or even exist at all. This would be impossible for a casual user to detect.



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