Ebay is so easy for scum bags and villains of the world to rip us off. It's successful because of sellers 'greed' to have buyers bidding against each other before the deadline, and idealy get a good price in a very short space of time. 'Greed' takes over with the buyers as well, they see something for a very low price and put in a bid. Before they know it they're in a bidding war and end up buying something they haven't seen.
When 'greed' takes over common sense goes out of the window.
I like to see how much someone wants for a bike and offer according to the condition when I've seen it. Not bid against the sellers mate to push the price up before I've had a chance to look at it.
Take a look at
www.od-racing.co.uk to see an alternative way of dealing in a relaxed way.