I’ve been an ebay member for a long time, 7 years according to my profile but I think it’s actually been longer than that, I had to switch identities years ago when an email address I had was no longer accessible to me.

Anyway despite that long usage, and hundreds of transactions, I’ve never been ripped off until now. I’ve had a few questionable trades (one guy sent me a cell phone charger when I had purchased a palmpilot cable and I ended up having to cover the shipping, another guy claimed a chess set I sent him was wrecked in shipping but failed to file the required insurance paperwork), but recently I was flat out ripped off for the first time. It was only $10 or so, for a graphic novelization of a short story by George RR Martin, but it’s not the money, it’s the principle. What kind of person expends the effort it takes to get an ebay account, build up positive feedback, photograph items and list them, all so they can rip off someone for $10? It makes no sense, even if they do it to a bunch of people, which this person seems to have done. You would make more money for less effort working as a clerk at walmart or something. But whatever, I just thought I would mention this since I know a lot of my friends have actually been ripped of more than once on ebay, one for a fairly large sum of money, so I’ve sort of felt lucky until now. Meanwhile, I still need a copy of the Hedge Knight.