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Originally posted by Mack_Attack:
To bad chewy on your luck. I wounder what the percent of people getting ripped off on ebay really is. Compared to the good buys from there?
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Well, I've bought and sold quite alot of D&D stuff and this is my first rip-off. I thinks it's because D&D 'geeks' are all mostly birds of a feather. Some of the rare, expensive stuff sometimes attracts scammers, but I deal mostly with the common stuff since that is what I currently collect. Since it is a smaller community, most scammers get called out pretty quickly as well.
Some categories, particularly high-end electronics, laptops, and cell-phones are supposedly more supceptible to frauds than others. A friend of mine, inexpirienced on Ebay, sold a PS2 and got ripped-off completely with a fake money order and a fake fed-ex account. He learned the hard way!
Anyway, I think the odds of getting scammed are not great, but caution is still warranted.