Sorry to offend or go against your newsgroups terms of posting. To risk
being pedantic, it's not an ebay product it is my product that had
great use of over the summer. I'm now trying to clear my student loan
and if selling a product that I don't expect to use again for a couple
of years will wipe £100 off of it then great.

I posted this first on uk.rec.cycling and wasn't sure whether anybody
would be offended by it. The only response was that it was ok, but the
netiquette is to prefix the subject with FA (for auction).

Apologies once again.

Yep, Ebay is risky, and I don't use PayPal.

Davie wrote:

You're taking a hell of a risk buying anything on ebay anyway.

The above is certainly true. Ebay is not secure. My EBAY account was
accessed by persons unknown and they put up for sale Mobile phones in my
name. They also infiltrated my Pay Pal account as part of the scam and
opened a fictitious Bank account in my name. Payments for the goods were
sent to the fictitious account. Luckily I spotted it early but some £1500
was lost. Paypal covered me in full and accepted that the transactions were
fraudulant. Meanwhile EBAY does not accept it and said I listed the phones.
They are about to take me to court for the listing and final value fee of
£26.32.
Ebay is totally insecure and they treat customers like fraudsters and
basically called me a liar. My advice is steer well away from Ebay,
particularly if they have your credit card details!!!