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jswinden · 07-21-2012, 05:30 PM

You could get scammed on any item as eBay sellers sometimes ship items that are not from the photo in the listing. Sometimes they do this on purpose and sometimes out of ignorance. There are a lot of store fronts that are really nothing more than a person who goes around to garage sales and flea markets picking up items to resell at a profit. I would try to avoid those. I really think you are safer to buy from someone with a couple of hundred approvals and a rating of 100% positive than one of those store fronts with tens of thousands of approvals and a rating of 97% positive.

07-21-2012, 05:30 PM	#9
jswinden Nameless Being	You could get scammed on any item as eBay sellers sometimes ship items that are not from the photo in the listing. Sometimes they do this on purpose and sometimes out of ignorance. There are a lot of store fronts that are really nothing more than a person who goes around to garage sales and flea markets picking up items to resell at a profit. I would try to avoid those. I really think you are safer to buy from someone with a couple of hundred approvals and a rating of 100% positive than one of those store fronts with tens of thousands of approvals and a rating of 97% positive.