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C'mon, I have been buyer and selling on the net for well over 15 years, I have only had 2 bad experiences. Yes you are going to have scammers. We all know that. If you can see the red flags, don't do it. Everybody that does anything on the web does it 1st through paypal friends and family and do not write any description. I have used Paypal from day one with zero problems. Yes there are some people that don't want to use PP and clearly state that in there add before a transaction is made. I do how ever understand in both cases, it is the sellers choice. The only rational explanation that will fly with me is that the seller is to lazy to ship plain and simple.
I am not trying to say it is a pro or con thing. I would just have to guess if some are not willing to ship the payment would be the #1 reason why. I used to buy and sell on Ebay long ago. Still buy now and then. Ruger .22 mags for one seem to be always best there. Now of course I pay with a card so I have zero worries. Now selling? That is a different animal. When the great mag ban was going away I had a lifetime supply of mags. I took a gamble when I was fairly sure it was going to go away and started putting them up on Ebay. I made a killing. I did have one buyer claim the mag never got to him even though tracking showed it did. Rather than fight it I just gave him his money back.
A few times I used E-bay to clean out "junk boxes". Items I no longer needed and could not find someone to give to. I would toss them up on e-bay. Always sold. Did have one last time I did this that pulled the same thing, Tracking showed it delivered, he said it was not, I sent money back. Buyer may well have been telling the truth. I buy on line daily. Delivery is sometimes missed. To me it mattered not as I was getting rid of stuff I was willing to give away. So whether you agree or not a lot of people wanting to sell something are going to refuse to ship. It's thier stuff, how they sell it means nothing to me.
Now since I found this site I have used it a few times to get rid of "junk". Several times I when cleaning out the "stuff boxes" I put it up here for free for supporting members. If I was selling something? To ship it would have to be worth so little to me that I would not care if I never got paid. It's a to each his own thing.