EBAY BEWARE !!

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ebay is just one more marketplace, like any other.

If you go down to a shouk or bazar and browse from merchants you have never dealt with before, do you trust them? Do you trust them how far?

On eBay you have to ask the same question, how long they have been members, what te feedback has been, how varied it has been, who it has been from and of course what is the item and how expensive it is, and how specific the description is.

It is nice that Paypal offers some guarantee but like any guarantee, you MUST read the terms. They will follow them, but that's all they will do.

Marketplaces have not changed in the past two thousand years, since the latin phrase "Caveat Emptor!" was first written down. Hot cars, hot parts, and the fact that global shipping makes it terribly expensive (and often impossible) to press charges against a seller in some other country, just make it more important to remember: Caveat Emptor!