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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3007783, member: 112&quot;]Ya know, there was a time when ebay was a good thing. When both buyers and sellers were protected equally. When both could post feedback, not that feedback means anything at all, but at least they could do it. And when both had the same rights and privileges in disputes. And for the most part you didn&#039;t really have to worry about much as a buyer or a seller. But over time everything changed - and not for the better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years I&#039;ve seen literally thousands of threads similar to this one in one way or another. And thousands more pointing out all the scams found on ebay. And the list of the trials and tribulations, and this and that and something else that buyers and sellers alike go through on a regular basis as a result of using ebay - well it&#039;s pretty much endless. So, it&#039;s not like people aren&#039;t aware of this. To the contrary, they seem to be all to aware of it !</p><p><br /></p><p>And for me that begs the question - why in the world would people use ebay to begin with ? I can see it if they don&#039;t know anything about ebay and what goes on there. But for those that do, and there are a lot of them that do, I&#039;m baffled !</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a lot of analogies I could use, like walking into the worst neighborhood you can possibly imagine, late at night, looking to buy or sell coins. Who here would do that ? Or walking up to a guy selling coins out of his trunk in the grocery store parking lot looking to buy or sell something - who here would do that ? Same thing goes for the guy standing on the busy street corner downtown - who would do that ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, you&#039;re doing pretty much the same thing by using ebay. All the chances and risks that exist in the scenarios I described above - they all exist on ebay too ! Only on ebay there&#039;s a whole lot more of them ! Buying and selling on ebay is like trying to walk across a minefield with a blindfold on. And yet people flock to it in droves - every day, every hour, every minute ! </p><p><br /></p><p>I just don&#039;t get it. And I&#039;m a gambler, always have been. But I always analyze the risk vs reward, and when the risk is as high as it is on ebay I don&#039;t walk away - I don&#039;t even go there !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now somebody&#039;s gonna speak up and say something like - oh there&#039;s lot of good people on ebay ! And yeah, I&#039;d agree, there are some. But they are so grossly outnumbered by those who are not good that the difference staggers the imagination ! And the mere existence of all these threads like this one confirm that thousands upon thousands are dealing the bad guys and not the good guys ! And the thing that really gets me, is that even though there are all those thousands of threads talking about all the bad on ebay - there&#039;s probably 10, maybe a 100, times that many people who don&#039;t even know that they got taken in one way or another. They aren&#039;t even aware of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And all of this happens when there are trusted and respectable people out there who number in the thousands, as well as numerous other trusted and respected venues, where you can buy and or sell coins without ever leaving your home, and almost certainly get a better price that you can on ebay. And do it with none of the risks that ebay has.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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