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Why do you think it a mistake?

Because now we can watch those funds and know how much money they made, we can watch them to see if they make a mistake.

If every address was different we'd have no idea how much money they're making and only funds paid by people who also reported them would be tainted by the long eyeball of the law.

It does not seem like something wrong directly. I also think showing off might be intention.

They should have pre-loaded more onto the wallet to give the impression that most people are paying.

Less than £10K USD gives the impression that nobody is paying.

It is the same psychology as a product only getting a couple of two star reviews - you don't buy it, you go for the product with hundreds of 4-5 star reviews instead.

Preloading money leaves a paper trail

Probably not viable right now because of the ridiculously high transaction fees.

Transaction fees only need to be high if you are in a hurry. If you can wait a week or two you can go with very small TX fees. As you can see in this graph even very low (5 to 10 Satoshi per byte) fee transaction are confirmed eventually. https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h

Okay, then my theory is trash. They just weren't smart about it, then.

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