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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2075282, member: 59677&quot;]Only buy within your comfort zone</p><p>Don&#039;t buy from sellers who post bad pics or incomplete ones</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If the pics suck, tell the seller </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - you may get blocked, but s/he needs to know you choose not to buy because of the poor pictures...</p><p>Know what it&#039;s worth</p><p>If the listing doesn&#039;t show or doesn&#039;t say something - ask</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - don&#039;t assume the unsaid is in your favor</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - don&#039;t assume the seller is an idiot...</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay listings are like real estate - they have their own language [close to transit means the back window overlooks the El].</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; - might means isn&#039;t/won&#039;t [might be the rare, might upgrade]</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; - unsearched means &#039;by me, personally&#039;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; - rare means I used stupid keywords and couldn&#039;t find another one for sale</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; - looks better than the photos [either: I can&#039;t take pics of anything, or my cataract surgery is scheduled for next week...]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is good stuff out there, but you have to kiss a lot of frogs [view a lot of listings]. For three examples: the listing showed one, but the text said six - scored six silver 25c for $11. I snatched two low serial # slabs out from under Bob because I could sit there on the exercise bike for an hour paging through 1000s of listings...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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