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any more comments like that and I shall sit in a corner and sulk..... I'm serious.........silverback

POSITIVE RATINGS - be cautious. There has been a scam running on e-bay whereby 1 cent e-mails are purchased and delivered on-line. i.e. there was no physical/postage delivery. Every purchase enabled the seller to obtain positive feedback. For example. on a $1.00 sale they obtained 100 positive feedbacks. The same applied to the purchaser who if the were to spend $1.00 also received 100 positive feedbacks. So as you can see, to obtain 100s of positive feedbacks was relatively cheap and simple. So, just because you have convinced yourself that the seller is (appears) to be OK just remember the above scam. Apparently e-bay have now outlawed direct/on-line delivery of items in an attempt to wipe out this practice.

So people actually believe the 'Positive' feedback ratings????

I never read the positive...I do a history search for any negative feedback...read the comments and see how the dispute was handled...that way I get a much more acurate picture of who the person I am dealing with is and how he/she would handle a problem if it was to occur.

Im sorry but how much can you protect stupid people from themselves??

At some stage people have to take responsability for their actions...weigh up the risks and if it goes sour then accept that YOU took the risk!

My2c

All the best

Matt

The other thing to bear in mind with positive ratings is that you get mug (like me for example), who gives his positive rating based SOLELY on the fact that the transaction has gone smoothly. In other words, as soon as I actually receive the package, I get into ebay on the puter and record the positive outcome.

If the product I bought was hopeless, I consider that to have been my own problem.....let the buyer beware. This wouldn't be the case if the itm received was obviously NOT what I had expected....IE if it was a plastic Rolex, when I had expected a fully-functioning, authentic Rolex......then the feedback would have been made a "NEGATIVE".

The worst thing I've ever bought on ebay (for $40-) was a set of metric rachet ring spanners. Big heavy things, made in China and a total waste of $40-!!!!! I still gave the dude positive feedback cos the items were as described......you have to take a chance sometimes.

I bid on a car once, didn't win......Then recived around 14 second chace offers from heaps of different e-mail addys.

All went quiet when I offered to come around and pick up the car and not pay into a bank before delivery...

But really if you fall for the scams maybe you needed a wake up call in life...

Cheers Stefan