No wonder there are so many fake sellers on ebay. the bid on that fake watch by the fake coin dealer is now over four grand!!
It is never a waste of time to help someone who asks a question. To that end thank you for your helpful clarification on the above links and also your interesting commentary from 2009 that I hadn't read before Out of curiosity what is your #1 dispute?
LOL.......... I just hit page number 559 instead of the "next" button on the message board (by accident) and I fell into a 15 year time warp. I saw aliases that I haven't seen in years. But you know who is mentioned in one of the first messages.....and the links are dead............ ??? btw I had fun reading those old posts. I was going to raise one from the dead, but I guess I won't.
I would bet that it's not knowing the date something was posted. We can look here, but it isn't always obvious, especially when someone resurrects a necropost.
I do Ebay often and have rarely had a problem, not all of Ebay is fakebay or ripoffbay. There are a lot of good people out there and there are some that make the others look bad. He is selling from Dubai though. I mark my searches to be the U.S. and a handful of European Countries. The same with when I sell. I sold once to Dubai and will never do that again. You would think a country that rich wouldn't have a problem like that. No one is going to return a 100 dollar or less coin to Dubai. The Buyer gets stuck with shipping when returning items typically.