To date I have bought 4 items off ebay, the first was a difficult motherboard to get hold of, the seller was an older guy and was reluctant to do business with me because I was a new buyer with no history. We corresponded via ebay message a few times untill we eventualy spoke over the phone, I was prepared to pay in advance for the mobo and this clinched the deal. He gave me a good feedback report, which led on to me buying the next three items with no difficulty. The next two were disney DVD's and were well priced and arrived exactly as described. The final item was a DVD and when it arrived it turned out to be a cheap far east import, I was dissapointed and checked the original advertisement, but nowhere in the advertisement did it say it was or was not a cheap import, the dvd works fine my only gripe is that there is no booklet with it so you get what you pay for.
My first example just goes to show that the sellers need to be as cautious as the buyers, I would not recommend buying anything from ebay that costs more than about thirty bucks (that mobo was $48) and I certainly wouldn't recommend buying software.
I have just bought five copies of this even though the company doesn't have a particularly good standing at resellerratings my order arrived quite quickly and they are all perfect with COA's.
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