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Posted By: jeff

Sad to say, I am generally lazy and forgetful about feedback. The favor is often returned .

Two things I've noticed about the sanity and reliability of ebayers:

1. The higher price the item, the more likely the buyer is to be sane & agreeable.

2. The older the card, the more likely the buyer is sane. (Same goes with recorded music, incidentally.)

On the few occasions where I've listed a bunch of $5-$10 current stuff, 1/100 buyers or so freaks out for no reason. I often never know why. This is not to say that I would leave negative feedback as retaliation, but if someone becomes irrational about something beyond your control, they did not hold up their end of the bargain. If you know you've shipped the card, described accurately, etc., then the rest of the ebay community deserves a warning that this person is not an ideal buyer.

My point (if I do indeed have one) is that we, as pre-1950 sellers (often of expensive stuff), we get to deal with generally reliable people. Many of whom are on this board. But it is unrealistic to generalize from from this sample.