GBrown wrote:

If that were the case, there wouldn't be any hamfests.
Gary...

Exactly my point. OP suggested that ebay was somehow responsible for
making people behave and his opposition suggested that sheep are to be
fleeced.
Somewhere in the middle common sense, if not a bucketful of luck, should
prevail if a buyer hopes to have a good success ratio of good vs bad
deals whether its ebay, hamfests, Walmart or used car lots.
Counting on people who sell things to please everybody 100% is naivete.

-BM