ebay dont hav telephone operators. u can only contact them by email, which gives them the choice whether to reply or not. Its so easy to be screwed over, so i only ever buy small items like under £20 at most, in which i can pay by cheque or money order, so if the the seller fucks me over, at least ive only made a small loss and he doesnt end up with my credit card details if u see what i mean. There whole system is fucked up.

Ive bought a few things off ebay , ( Laptop Screen , PS2 , Loadsa Games Etc ) and ive never had a problem , ive bought goods in my own country , its very unlikey that you will get ripped off, each User has a comments of previous buyers or sellers , if the goods dont turn up then ebay will give you back 10% of the total value and that about that i think , happy bidding.

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I've had 22 transactions on ebay. most buying, but some selling.

never had any problems. and if you're worried about shipping prices, send an email to the seller before bidding.

i love eBay!!!!

it's one of those things i love the internet for!

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i've been shopping on ebay for a few years now... i love it

no complaints...

Their customer relations suck, I sold a fone & asked them to shut my account but they never and 3 months later they started bugging me for money, and added lots onto it, it wasn't a big amount, but it was the principal, for which I think sucked

i do agree with you that prices to ship do seem a bit ridiculous. however, think about it in a different way.. often times, people charge more than the normal shipping amount, to cover the cost to sell the item, and the percentage ebay gets.

for example, if i sell a shirt for 10 bucks, i still have to pay ebay something like 1.50 no matter what, just to do the auction, and then an addition x% of the final price. so really, ive maybe only made 7 bucks instead of 10. by tacking on an extra dollar or two, i make my real amount.

this could also be why big items that get a lot of money, those people sometimes say free shipping. but im sure all the regular people just like you, would rather make a decent amount of money.

Ebay is mint! Never had problems with it..just stay with ebayers with huge amts of feedback to be safe

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I use it to sell and buy all the time. Never had a problem with it !

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the reason may be because the competition on ebay is so high that you have to barely sell over warehouse price. So basically most business sellers on ebay are making a few bucks from the shipping and handling costs. I bought a few things from businesses from ebay (which i check to see if they had alot of good feedbacks) and i was pleased with each and one of them. Just do some research and if you still dont like the whole price then jsut dont buy that item from ebay.

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