Good grief, I didn't say there was no risk.
AND, I don't get too ruffled by "enough horror stories going around" to change my methods of business. I also don't live in fear of muggings, carjackings or identity theft. I take appropriate precautions.
As I said, I am not that active on eBay anymore but that is only because of the cost involved. And, I would never give you my user name so you could "make a point". Geez
Well you don't have to get in a huff. We are all friends here. Just having a discussion with you.
On getting out of ebay because of the costs, would that be because Ebay, PayPal and whatever shipping company used make about twice as much on an order as you did? Sure was the situation in my case.
They kept changing their fee structure and it got to be so much work to keep up with what they were charging and how they kept trying to manipulate their take.
It was like a cat and mouse game trying to stay enough of a step of their fees to be able to make any kind of a profit whatsoever.
Sounds like we agree on that.
OK my friend.