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you are as safe buying and selling on eBay as you are
anywhere else on the net. Every official eBay transaction
is covered, at no additional cost, by the Fraud
Protection Program . If you paid for an item
and never received it (or if you received the item,
but it's less than what was described), eBay will reimburse
buyers up to $200, minus $25 to cover processing costs.
Millions
of eBay transactions are carried out every week, out
of those inevitably a few people have problems. You
can minimize the chances of problems by using some
common sense, check out the sellers/buyers feedback,
look and see what they have been buying recently,
read descriptions carefully, does the photo match
the description? If an item looks too good to be true,
or if you have any suspicions about it or the person
selling it, email them and ask pertinent questions
(without implying that you think they are a crook!).
Most sellers know something about the items they sell,
if they know nothing at all about an item you think
is suspicious, or if their answers are evasive, you
may want to pass on it and look elsewhere.
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