I'm glad someone brought this up...I've been needing to vent about eBay/PayPal for a while now, and this is as good a time as any I suppose.
That's just one of many reasons why I refuse to deal with PayPal, and I'm getting seriously fed up with eBay as well. To be blunt, their "security" is a joke.
I hardly ever sell anything on eBay anymore because it's become such a giant hassle. I just listed a couple of things ~3 weeks ago, and since then I've gotten at least 1/2 dozen scam emails phishing for my info. It's always the same thing..."forward to spoof@ebay ", but I don't see where that's doing any good. As always, I expect these bogus emails will keep up for the next month or so, then die down again until the next time I list something on eBay, then I'm sure it'll start all over again.
As such, I've decided to make my feedback private (even though it's 100%) as well as my auctions in (what I'm guessing is)a somewhat feeble attempt to protect my privacy as well as the privacy of those who've bid on my auctions and/or purchased from me. Unfortunately, this has apparently resulted in suspicion from several potential bidders. It's a no-win situation!
I've nothing to hide, I'm just trying to protect the privacy of my bidders as well as my own since eBay can't seem to get a handle on it themselves.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
And as far as Postal money orders go, I'm about to find out how much protection that offers as someone just stung me for a pretty nice chunk of $$$ courtesy of a USPS money order (not eBay related). I guess we'll see if Ol' Unkie really does go after scammers like they say they do.
*sigh*
I need a vacation.