"J. Clarke" wrote:
John Doe wrote:

If the hard disk drives were in a factory sealed package and
there was no damage to the package as you said, ZipZoomFly might
not have known.

Zipzoomfly likely never had the drives in their possession--the
normal operating procedure for an online business is to pass the
order through to a wholesale distributer who ships directly from
the wholesaler's warehouse.

Right.

I think some online outlets ship from the same warehouses.

Sometimes you can find real-time stock status which shows stock in
warehouses in various states.

One might also notice when orders ship from different states.