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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jloring, post: 1458664, member: 15518&quot;]It&#039;s happened before. I remember one guy (in 1998 I think, about the time I started selling) who was selling high end collectibles (llardo or similar). Had over a thousand positive feedbacks. Then he was hit with some major personal problems, so he went for the the eBay &quot;kill&quot;, listing hundreds of items he didn&#039;t have. Collected the money (it was all checks or M.O.&#039;s back then, so delivery times were much longer) and disappeared. Of course, after a few incidents like that eBay began revamping their system, but it was a long time until the current buyer protection policy came to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit - actually it was 2002; just found the USA Today article:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/03/01/ebay-fraud.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/03/01/ebay-fraud.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/03/01/ebay-fraud.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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