On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 06:21:34 AM Tom Browder wrote: > Thanks! I forget about ebay—I only used it once many years ago. And the > Belkin products I’ve used in the past have worked fine.
You're welcome! I buy quite a few things off ebay (for some definition of quite a few) -- some used things, mostly new, from the far east, with very few bad experiences (and all but two of those resolved by the ebay or PayPal money back policies. ebay has extended the (money back) gurantee period to longer than 30 days (maybe 60 days now?), and they start the period when you receive your order (or it should have been received) so the long shipping times from the far east are no longer the same issue. And PayPal now has a 6-month guarantee period, so if you pay with PayPal and miss the ebay guarantee, you can use the PayPal guarantee. (Obviously, those guarantees don't cover everything -- I have mainly used them for the few cases of non-delivery I've had.) (Aside: When I look at my ebay account, I see "(356)" behind my name -- I don't know if that means I made 356 transactions (almost all purchanses) on ebay since I started using them (at least since 2012, maybe before that) One of the aggravating ones was some seller of NiMH cells (AAA) (a vendor using the trade name "hot-rc". I ordered 24 AAA cells rated at 1800 maHr. I tested a few, and wrote to tell him the cells were not holding anywhere near the 1800 maHr charge (much less than 100 maHr) he asked me to test them all. I wrote back to tell him it would take me a while to do that. When I finished testing them and wrote back to him, he essentially laughed at me because it was past the 30-day (iirc, at the time) money back period. I'd like to find (or start) a hall of shame for ebay sellers -- I have one or two others I'd add to the list. Oh, the other bad thing about that was that I couldn't give him a bad rating because the same 30-day period (or something like it) applied to giving feedback.
