[Rockhounds] What do you do about falsely advertised eBay items?

[Al Balmer]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:49:24 -0800, Kris Rowe
<lapidary.specialties at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dave, I'm sorry to hear that you choose not to even visit eBay, and are
>proud of that choice. That attitude pre-assumes that *all* eBay sellers are
>crooks.

Not so. You are "pre-assuming" too much. I too avoid eBay, but not
because I assume that all eBay sellers are crooks. It does seem that
eBay has more than its share of crooks, but certainly the majority are
honest. 

I avoid eBay because *some* are crooks, as you certainly know, and I
have no way of knowing which, or, even with the honest ones, examining
the merchandise before investing my time and money. What's more, eBay
is the vehicle for existence of huge numbers of scammers, spammers,
and other crooks who operate not within eBay, but on it's fringes. My
decision, several years ago, was that it's much simpler to just avoid
anything that has to do with eBay. If I get an email that purports to
be from eBay, or an eBay seller, I don't even wonder about it before
deleting it. And, you know what? I've discovered that eBay is *not*
essential to human existence.

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Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ