I have bought about 200 items off ebay in the past 10 years and i'd say 99% of those were positive with no problems, I do take issue with sellers asking crazy prices for shipping and taking their sweet time in getting to the PO to actually ship it to me. Since ebay and Paypal are two separate companies now I have had problems with the last two transactions, and the whole process was messed up saying I hadn't paid when I did etc. I won't use ebay anymore unless it's totally my last option, I go the Amazon Prime route now, two days free shipping to my front door guaranteed.