Actually I don't have any substantial complaints about Ebay. You just have to understand their position on things. They are simply a medium to bring buyers and sellers together. They really don't want to get in the middle of such things except to get their cut of the action. You DO have to be careful about the sellers using Ebay, as it is not at all unusual for people to consider Ebay as a good way to dump crap on unsuspecting buyers. I always check the feedback, but even that is not a very good guide.
For instance, a while back I was looking for a collection of music styles for my Roland BK-7M backing arranger. I found a guy advertising 15,000 of them on a memory stick. I knew I could probably find many of them online to download for free, but I figured that this guy had already done all that work and likely arranged them in categories so I wouldn't have to do that. He had good feedback, so I presumed this wold be a worthwhile purchase.
Nope. He just had everything helter skelter in numbered directories, with no rhyme nor reason. And the memory stick only had 10,000 of them. To make matters worse, I ran a comparison on the file names in all those directories, and of those 10,000, only about 1800 of them were original, all the rest of them were simply duplicates and a complete waste.
I sent it back to him and demanded my money back after filing a complaint with Ebay. Which I did get. So basically you can't assume anything with some of these people.
Anyway Travers Tool did cancel my purchases through Ebay and I wound up buying the items I wanted elsewhere. They just dropped the ball. They did offer me free shipping on my next order, but I'm not real keen on trying that again any time soon.
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