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Aaron M.Good to hear it worked out for you. That was probably the best outcome you could have hoped for.
For the future, some of the biggest scams on E-Bay are:
1. Trimmed or altered cards being sold as "slabbed" graded cards by shyster grading services. (If it's not PSA, SGC, BVG or GAI then pass. PRO is usually the biggest culprit.)
2. Magazine cut-outs being sold as graded collectibles. These are literally pages from vintage magazines that have been cut up and put into a make-shift NASA graded "slab" with the fraudulent attempt from the seller to pass them off as some sort of card/collectible. They are, of course, worthless.
3. Outright reprints being sold as vaguely described reprints/originals. These are usually in the form of "estate finds" where the seller claims to not collect cards and doesn't know exactly if they are originals or not. Another one is claiming that a card is being sold "as a reprint" because it is not graded, even though the seller knows full well the card is a reprint. There are usually enough greedy suckers out there who think that they're going to get a steal to drive the price up.
4. Lastly, if the seller is having a "private" auction or has "private" feedback where the identity of those he is transacting with are hidden, it's because he has something to hide and is afraid you will be warned by others that what he is selling is fraudulent. Never buy the "protecting the identity of the buyers" explanation. It's for their own protection to prevent people from interfering with the fraud they are committing.
Just some pointers. Good luck in the future.