eBay question

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I ****ing hate ebay. it's basically turned into an on-line store, instead of bid site for the most part.
virtually everything I search for is a 'buy it now' that's the same, or higher, than anywhere else you can get it on the internet. I haven't bought from Ebay in probably 3-4 years.

any savings I "might" have in an auction, is far outweighed by the PITA factor. So I'll just buy whatever I need new from a legit site./ retailer.

I buy a lot of stuff through Amazon Prime, but once in awhile I will still find a better deal on ebay, it's probably 60/1. You can still get jerked around on Amazon as well, but they will always take care of you. I had an old blender kick the bucket three weeks ago. This thing was probably 15 years old, I don't use a blender very often. I "found a deal" on a new Ninja and figured what the hell, this thing will last me another 20 years.

Fast forward, I don't hear anything from the seller, and emailed it for a tracking number. It sends me a tracking number and the item is headed for NY, I'm in MT. It turns out the seller did this about 60 times to people in 48 hours. I called Amazon and got the money refunded. At this point, an item either has to come directly from Amazon, or the seller has to have a lot of positive transactions, or I won't buy.