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To: Zena who wrote (1693)	2/15/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: astyanax	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

"Zena wrote: Holy Moly!! You sent the Baseball cards before you received payment?" Yeah, don't remind me. But a lot of people send out the goods before receiving payment. Elway and Marino rookie cards, actually. Anyway, like I've said, the oft-repeated "fraud is only 27 per million transactions" by Ebay execs is misleading. The more relevant stat (which is anyone's guess) is how many deals go bad - leaving at least one of the parties feeling cheated. Negative feedback has problems as the other party gave me retaliatory negative and even threatened to do so beforehand. In deals that do go bad (again, the vast majority go smoothly), retaliatory negatives are frequent - as the auctionwatch.com boards attest. Anyway, I have to remove username mane2's name and address from my ebay complaint page right now as Ebay says this violates user agreement. parallax.simplenet.com