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Chapter VIII: Purchasing on eBay
Unless you have years of experience or actually are familiar
with the seller, my advise is eBay is not for you.
This place is a mine field of forgeries, copies and items being
auctioned that the seller doesn’t own. At one time one of
my own items I listed on eBay did not sell. A week later my item
with the exact description and illustration was listed on a sellers
site in England. This seller scanned my eBay site and put it
up as his own. My asking price for the item was a minimum bid
of $2,000. The English seller listed the item with a low minimum
to attract bidders. He got several bids with the winning bidder
paying seven hundred dollars. This collector thought they got
a real bargain. When the buyer sent his check for the item, the
check was cashed and the English eBay seller disappeared. This
is only one of many horror stories associated with bidding on
eBay.
Chapter IX: Autograph Values (Continued)
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