Although I don't sell I do buy occationally,

Ok, tell that how a HIGH Positive feedback makes a seller an honest one.

Take for instance a big "IF" here if the E-bay user "pgorski" who was found to have been shill bidding on his own auction might have had a very HIGH Positive feedback rating if he had been using e-bay for a long time and had never gotten caught.

Just think of the many who may be doing this and haven't been caught yet.

While I do surf e-bay daily, I don't put any significance on feedback. New sellers and buyers will always have a very low feedback. I don't know how many items I've actually purchased on e-bay but my feedback only shows I have feedback rating of 11 with 12 positives(I've probably bought 4 to 5 times the number of feedbacks I've gotten).

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<<<I have learned that those with little or no feedback don't put the same effort into completing transactions timely & professionally.>>>

Because my rating is low does that put me into this group you're talking about here?

In order to make e-bay work there has to be buyers and sellers, and many of them will be new and have little or no feedback. That doesn't put them into the group you say, "...don't put the same effort into completing transactions timely & professionally."

Completing auctions on e-bay is a gamble either way buying or selling but in the auctions I've done, I've found the odds much higher on the side of satisfactorily completing a deal than having a problem. Only because I probably don't have a high enough feedback to have encountered a problem yet?