[Claymores]

My eBay score is 3581 (gathered since 2001) and 100% positive. Just avoid idiots whether buying or selling.

Join something called "Goofbay" for free (part of their original reason for being was to pick on numpty sellers who could not spell so you could get a geniune 'Soney' item for peanuts, hence the goof in the name).

Now it is just used as a free SNIPER - a sniper application is one where you decide the maximum you would pay for any given item, then tell the siper and it puts in your maximum bid 2 seconds before auction close. You either win or you don't. Maybe someone else had put in a higher bid days before.

Sometimes you get items for 50% less than you would have gone up to, sometimes you don't - with 2 seconds, nobody else has time to respond and you don't have time to talk yourself into bidding higher than you originally wished to.