DH and I have come across a seller on Ebay who trades in used baby car seats. From their history it is clear that they sold ten last month and they currently have about eight more for sale. They are not buying any, just selling. All are different models and price brackets. Some are practically brand new. Each advert states categorically "this seat has never been in an accident".
Anyway DH and I started speculating about where someone might get a constant supply of used car seats that they could give that assurance about. And when we couldn't think of anywhere, out of curiosity we messaged the seller enquiring about one of the more expensive seats and asking the reason for sale. The answer came back: "we have recently changed our car and the seat doesn't fit our new car."
That seemed unlikely to be the real reason given the scale of the enterprise, which makes us suspicious. If the seats are shop display models or samples, or if there is some other reasonable explanation, why wouldn't the seller say so? The only thing DH and I can think of that makes sense is the seats are all coming out of cars which have had accidents.
Surely not?
We're definitely not buying one by the way.