I've said this before (but perhaps in a different voice) as a buyer in the old days (the really old days e.g. 1999) sellers had way TOO MUCH power, and I never thought I'd say that!
There was virtually no comeback from scammers selling broken items blatantly falsely listed as working, and even then if they agreed a return, there was a trick they could pull with PP around what appeared to be an advanced refund. The use of cheques was also quite common (and NOCHEX, basically as good as doing a bank transfer) for the even less wary so absolutely no comeback there either.
To be fair, such things were rare but as I say those intent on fraud just laughed all the way to the bank. I can also remember loads of times you trusted to send things out as soon as you got the cheque or if a repeat buyer if they were certain they'd posted it! And before everyone thought they knew the price of everything, some great bargains to be had as well! In my business (again this is a posting account) I still have a few pieces I've kept for myself that were local £15 pickups that I could sell tomorrow for £500+. And - to be fair to all - that's what we ALL thought they were worth back then, most people were delighted to get some money for things that a few years before they almost certainly would have binned.
