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To: spal who wrote (6346)	2/11/2000 7:07:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

I would say that your chances of being shafted on eBay are less than if you were buying from any place else. Confine your bids to people with at least a 50 positive feedback rating, and you will be fine. Nobody who has built up a good feedback record wants to screw anybody, for fear of it affecting their feedback rating. The only people I have been screwed by on eBay are the bidders. I would say that, depending on the item I am selling, between 10 and 20 percent never send in the money. Of all the items I have purchased on eBay, I have been disappointed with perhaps a handful, and in those cases, have either returned the item for a refund, or gotten the seller to provide me with a partial credit. I recently bought a brand new Thinkpad 570 laptop on eBay for $2,000. The best price I could find anywhere else was at least $2800 and most other places were more than $3000. I am using that laptop to type this message, and am extremely pleased with it. So, go ahead, start bidding!