Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

PayPal is the ONLY way to go, at least for an American.
You get the PayPal buyer protection (almost worthless) AND the Federal
Credit Card protection (priceless, almost can not lose).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry@islandnet.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] How to buy a notebook on Ebay

> Only read part of the article, so not sure if it was mentioned,
> but part of my advice would be not to buy something in "as is"
> condition. Even if they mention what is wrong with the item.
> I bought an "as is" item once, knowing that I could fix the
> problem that the seller described, but when the thing arrived,
> it turned out it had another, more intractable problem. That was
> a variant on the old "shell game".
>
> I used to buy a lot on ebay but found that it took a lot of time.
> That is "good" if you view browsing auctions as entertainment,
> bad if you don't.
>
> Personally, I find that the biggest downfall of ebay is that so
> many vendors take only PayPal (with which I had bad experiences
> and have been happily rid of for a few years now), and few take
> credit cards.
>
> For instance, I'd like to buy a 600E keyboard, but finding an
> auction that takes other than paypal is tedious (unless you're
> lucky).
>
> The other problem is that I live in Canada, and a large percentage
> of auctions don't ship there. So then I have to wait until I'm
> visiting the USA ...
>
>
>
> --
> happy
> Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
>
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