I got burned on ebay about 5 years ago... tried to buy a MOTU 2408, won the auction, sent payment to some dude in alaska... had good feedback, everything seemed fine, wasn't the first time i used ebay... the guy gave me all these bullshit e-mails telling me it was on it's way etc. finally i filed grievance with both Ebay and the US Postal service, since i payed via postal money order... never got my money back, but did collect a bit of insurance, and helped build a case against this guy that just recently landed him in the can for 18 months.
Please let him read this and show up at my doorstep someday.. i'll show him how grievances are filed where i grew up...