This caution recently appeared at Slashdot:
Dropshippers can get wholesale prices from the big sources, advertise things very cheap, collect your payment information, send it back to the big source and have the item shipped.
They never touch it, they never see it, they have no clue what it is they’re selling.
Slashdot cautions that people selling very cheap, with no track record, may also be cutting security corners.
And in other recent news, anything USB now can come with automounting malware — the fact that USB is inherently insecure on almost all computers was very quickly followed by people discovering that e-cigarette chargers and USB cables may come with malware ready to load onto your computer the first time you insert the USB device.
http://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/2nzsfj/badusb_ecigarettes/
(I’ll be curious to see how long ago this selling hacked USB cheap cables and stuff started —- whether it’s a new problem for us customers and just the hardware people rushing the crap into production, or a longterm problem of stuff being sold that attacked your computer for months or years and just now becoming public[
People selling stuff really cheap may be making their real profits elsewhere than the few pennies they get from you.
Also, people selling stuff really expensive may just be reselling stuff they got really cheap, of course.
Point is — watch out, out there.