Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie <sellison-unix@a...> 
wrote:
> Damned right, I am!  If I can't see the merchandise and hear for 
myself that 
> it works properly before I hand the money over, what's the point.  

Well, that's the argument, and no defense does, or should, exist to 
counter it. It would be like saying, "You should jump out of 
airplanes because the chance of injury is really small." People sky 
dive because they want to and aren't afraid; other people don't, no 
justification necessary. But even though ebay's feedback system has 
become something of a racket, in which everyone is afraid to 
withhold praise for fear of a backlash that could damage his/her 
reputation, the negative feedback that does exist, reserved for the 
most severe cases, does provide a sense of whom you can trust. It's 
not foolproof--nothing is--but it helps. The great majority of 
people who sell on ebay have nothing to gain by courting bad faith. 
The people with an extensive history of sales and a small percentage 
of complaints aren't likely to be dishonest, and established stores 
that deal on ebay have much to lose through fraud. Personally, I 
like the idea of people providing goods to each other at reasonable 
prices, but, then again, I may be trusting by nature (hmmm). The 
risk of trust is always disappointment, or worse, somewhere along 
the line, but to me, the alternative doesn't sit as well. This is by 
no means intended as a universal recommendation of ebay--only a stab 
at representing one auctioneer's standpoint. But I'd venture to say 
that an ebay transaction for an item and/or price otherwise hard to 
find is a lot safer than jumping out of airplanes.