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Aug 31, 2026
\nInside the business of selling people their own family photo albums<\/p>\n

David Pogue\u2019s sister received an odd email from someone who had their grandmother\u2019s photo album. It exposed him to a world of people buying and selling lost family albums<\/p>

Pogue tracked the photo album’s journey, often from eBay vendor to eBay vendor, before it was sold to him. Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>

David Pogue, a longtime tech columnist and correspondent at CBS Sunday Morning, has covered many scams in his time. So when his sister got an email about their grandmother\u2019s old photo album, Pogue was curious<\/p>\n

He spoke with \u201cMarketplace\u201d host Kai Ryssdal about his experience, which he wrote about for New York Magazine<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was from a total stranger, and it sounded like a scam,\u201d Pogue said. \u201cBut at the same time the email had a couple of details in it that were correct, so I wrote the guy back.\u201d<\/p>\n

After he sent Pogue some photos of his grandmother from the album, the family sent him $150 so he would send it to them. In the process, Pogue explored \u201cthis online<\/a> economy of memorabilia traders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click the audio player above to hear the conversation<\/p>\n