"Al" wrote in message
om...
Yikes! Is this something that the eBay authorities need to know
about? I'd hate to see some people get ripped off.

There's a very old "rule" which should always be applied to any transaction,
more especially the essentially anonymous transactions of e-bay. It's called
caveat emptor. The axiom or principle in commerce that the buyer alone is
responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase before buying.