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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 20248, member: 1113&quot;]That&#039;s certainly true, and with few exceptions, you can&#039;t *really* know whether or not you&#039;re going to be scammed.&nbsp; But while the system is far from perfect, someone who knows &quot;how to eBay&quot; can do reasonably well and protect themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the feedback system can be a farce (mostly because of retaliatory negatives and feeble positives given in fear of said retaliatory negs), it&#039;s still better than nothing, especially if you can see someone has made hundreds or thousands of transactions with a very low complaint rate.&nbsp; And stay away from most raw BU stuff unless you get a good picture, and unless you have learned to trust a seller enough to think he/she will honor a return.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Once you understand the marketplace on eBay, you don&#039;t have to *know* someone to think you won&#039;t be ripped.&nbsp; And while you may be wrong on rare occasion, you can usually tell to some degree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Avoid Seated and Trade Dollars being sold in China.&nbsp; Watch out for new IDs selling expensive items with private bidders.&nbsp; Avoid sellers with private feedback.&nbsp; Know that the &quot;MS-67&quot; that many slabs is lucky to be MS-65.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, I think I&#039;m preaching to the choir here; I suspect most of us know these things already.&nbsp; The problem is, a lot of folks apparently don&#039;t know that, and if you follow these and a few other common sense things, your chances of getting badly scammed fall to *almost* zero.&nbsp; Much of it comes down to the most important thing to remember to avoid being scammed, whether eBay or ANYWHERE else:&nbsp; <b>if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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