Ebay is a garage sale with anonymity. What I'm hearing is a lot of naive expectations. "Dishonorable people found selling on eBay" SHOCKING. STICKY RED HEADLINE ON THE NEWSWIRE. We all know it entails risk. The seller knows everything and the buyer knows nothing. Usually it works out fine, sometimes it doesn't. I look at the risk/ reward question every time. And if it turns out bad, I knew that was possible and I put the blame on myself for my decision.