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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C-B-D, post: 1720787, member: 43130&quot;]GDJMSP (and others),</p><p>I appreciate the advice and thoughts. One thing in particular that I will always do is to block them once they&#039;ve wronged me. I agree that a line needs to be drawn somewhere, but I suppose I must figure out where that needs to be done. In reality one negative may actually only turn away 1-2 bidders from my coins, because anyone with 99.5% positive feedback still gets bids from me. And if I DO get an unwarrented neg from a buyer abusing the system, I may be able to make a case to eBay and have it removed.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>BUT THEN THERE ARE THE CRAZIES</i>. Years ago in a &quot;How-to&quot; book about eBay, I read the story of a man who bought a $5,000 video camera on eBay and the seller never shipped (back in the early days of eBay). So the buyer and 2 of his friends took a handgun and drove to the seller&#039;s home and there was a confrontation which eventually involved the police and courts. In the end, no one got shot, but these people do exist. I once called out a guy on eBay for selling expensive fakes once, and he obtained my phone number from eBay (because I was the buyer of one of these fakes) and called me with threats. After I Googled his name, turns out he had been in federal prison twice and had multiple convictions of fraud, AND had ties to the L.A. mafia (or so the prosecuters claimed in the online court article I read). Like I said, there are a few nut-jobs out there that I want no part of. I&#039;ve already run into one of them, and I&#039;d just assume never do it again. So while I&#039;d like to draw the line somewhere, I will most likely pacify the cheaters and just keep plowing away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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