[400thecat]

how would that help? either they check the returned boxes or they don't. sending back 1 shoe does not fools the inspection

[Macha]

An empty shoebox is so much lighter than a full shoebox that the odds of triggering someones sense of this being fishy are way higher I guess.

[regularfry]

It matters less if it's actually true than if someone trying to pull off the scam thinks it might be. The only way to find out if that hole exists in the system is either to have an insider tell you that it would, or to try it out...

[regularfry]

Oh, and to add further to the nonsense: the product description technically doesn't say that what you're buying is a pair of shoes. So a sufficiently automated system might mistake a single shoe for a legitimate product. It's absurd, but not impossible to see how you might end up there.