Jeff Liebermann wrote in
:

Most reputable eBay vendors value their reputation. I've had a few
similar screwups. An email to the vendor usually gets either an
exchange or a refund. It's easy to spot a reputable vendor. They're
the one's with thousands of sales and a reasonably high rating (96% or
better). Unfortunately, that also means you shouldn't buy anything
from me.


I think there;s no substitute for knowing what we want, regardless of size of
seller. I think the one I found was ok actually, they just screwed up with an
ambiguous listing title, and I screwed up by not spotting it earlier. When I
saw the UV colour-fade and went back to check 6 months after buying, I saw
they'd already changed and corrected the listing, but I'd run out of time to
make a claim.

Too bad eBay was not around more than ten years or so ago, you'd have done ok
with all that deck hardware.