Every year e-bay resets it's feedback #'s for everyone to 100% so the guy could conceivably have 1000 negative feedbacks and yet it not show up if it was over a year ago when he got them. In other words their FB system is a big pile of crap.
I usually don't buy anything very expensive off of e-bay but if I do find something that looks like a good deal I research the seller and if I don't find anything bad I call him and see if he'll do a direct sale with me paying by credit card. If he won't do it that way the purchase doesn't happen. Paying by credit card is much safer than paying by PayPal IMO.
