Posted By:
AdamI have only had one bad experience on eBay and it involved a seller who wanted payment by money order (it was for a high priced Mickey Mantle card). I bought a post office money order and, after waiting a solid month for the card, I contacted him since I still had not received the item. He claimed he never received my money order and thus he never sent me the card.
So I went to the post office and filled out a "missing money order" form, paid something around $2.00 for the post office to process the form, and then in a few weeks the post office sent me a photocopy of the back of the money order with the guys signature on it. Once I scanned that in and emailed it to the seller, he appologized for his error and sent me the card the next day.
So the lesson I learned is it is ok to pay with a money order, but use a post office money order and keep that little money order stub with the sereial number in case you have to fill out a missing money order form later down the road.
p.s.- I must admit, I now rarely, rarely bid on anything if they do not accept paypal . . . it's just such a more efficient way of doing things in my opinion.