Interesting. I've had good experiences with buyer protection: perhaps too good. I recently received a pair of OCXOs, one of which was bad. Ebay compelled the seller to refund me. I had an item arrive with the bag split and the contents missing. The seller wouldn't communicate other than to post copies of "item received" from USPS. Ebay actually refunded me for the lost item. I received the wrong connectors and the seller didn't respond to a message, so I asked for a refund. I got a full refund, even though I had destroyed one of the connectors while removing it. Over the past 3 years, I've had a number of bad experiences with sellers that ebay has resolved satisfactorily other than time lost. I'm near the end of developing a GPSDO that I hope to sell on ebay, and TBH I'm a bit concerned about the possibility of bad buyers. This concern has also caused me to drag my feet on selling numerous Collins items I have that I no longer need. So I guess we all have a different experience with ebay.

Bob - AE6RV

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On Thu, 2/18/16, wb6dgn_tom@... [hp_agilent_equipment] <hp_agilent_equipment@...> wrote:

Subject: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: eBay buyer protections are poor
To: hp_agilent_equipment@...
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 1:11 PM


Peter,
My experienced with ebay is
also bad.? While not electronics related the LAST two items
I bought through ebay were grossly "not as
described".? Both were rather pricey and both claimed
"Buyer Protection" near the pricing
information.
In the interest of brevity, my
experience was that the "buyer protection" claim
was not worth the bandwidth used to claim it!? ebay, in
essence told me to "go take a hike" in both cases,
refused to lift a finger to arbitrate the claim and told me
that "I should have known better than to expect
"buyer protection" on such old items, the fact
that it was clearly stated notwithstanding!
Well...I DID take a hike!? I closed my user
account, deleted all activities related to ebay and will not
even log into their site to use as a price or availability
reference.
While it is true that the items
were old, it was their claim of assistance if needed,
clearly posted by the pricing information, that induced me
to take a chance on those purchases and BOTH times I got
"BIT"
For the past 4+ years, ebay
has been nothing more than a bad memory for me and I fully
expect to keep it that way!? I don't trust them any
further than I could throw their entire corporate office
complex!
Tom









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