+1 ..,,. EBay as a whole provides a good sellers broad forum with generally acceptable favourable results for both sellers and buyers.
MY TAKE:
So let’s use a rifle instead of a shotgun approach, and let’s restrict all these rants and disparaging comments about EBay to strictly audio , and a further lens focus on EBay’s regrettable , disappointing, and infuriating willfull blindness on carved out cohort of shameless illegal counterfeiters selling on EBay primarily out of China.
example: ( Note: see the tsunami of prior AGON posts on illegal counterfeiters and especially KIMBER KABLES and CARDAS CABLES posting on their websites that all China sourced ones are cheap inferior build illegal frauds AND EBay’s express refusal to moderate them .)
The point:
(1) the EBay seller crooks in China and the incidence of other ad hoc occasional EBay seller bottom feeders committing fraudulent transactions and/or POS shipping logistics can be tamed with a common sense screening approach before buying with a bit of research and risk management .
(a) In essence, it’s pretty simple; if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. ( = a must to avoid)
(B) Seller prior positive feedback is a prime indicator of a good less risky buy, and conversely, an absence of them, is a harbinger of high risk and invariable a bad experience…. (Another must to avoid ) = Full stop.
EZPZ