One problem with eBay is still hacked/sold/stolen accounts.
One time I "purchased" 100 nintendo DS consoles from a seller with 15,000+ 100% feedback .. was THIS CLOSE to sending them their payments... when I got an email from paypal/ebay security saying STOP, NO, DON'T!!! That account has been hacked!!!
So... you can never really trust anybody, when it comes to buying more than a chocolate bar that is.
If I want to sell you a house and royally fuck you in the process, I only need to "borrow" somebody's good name.
I sold like $600 worth of bitcoins to some german people on eBay and got my transactions all reversed,.. and short of going absolutely nutters, we were extremely thankful that I came up with this
video screencapture idea ahead of time! We called Paypal and bitched at them for awhile, they told me the other peoples' eBay accounts got hacked or something. And that's the thing that makes me wonder. Shouldn't eBay have some sort of log of the IP address that accesses each account? They just label a situation 'oh that was a hacked account' and just protect the 'buyer' a.k.a. scammer.
Long story short, either the fact that I had a video of me sending the bitcoins to the person in the Paypal proof or they figured out some other reason, Paypal gave me the $600 back!!!
W00T I went out and bought two sweet Radeons that day and was grinning from ear to ear the whole time. I had the bitcoins as a $25 buy-it-now, so instead of buying them for $13 on an exchange I made these german people buy them for $25 a pop!