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Credit card is buyer's best friend. Virtual CC #

Don't want to rub it in, but everyone should pay for everything online using a credit card. Even with PayPal, it is nice to pay funding your payment with a credit card. You can, I believe, specify a relatively low credit balance on the card, and you don't have to link it to your bank account. The advantage to you is that you can always order a charge-back.

I just bought some ink for my printer online, and I got a "virtual credit card number" from Citi Bank so if the vendor is hacked and they steal my virtual credit card number, it won't do them much good as it has a really low or zero balance and is useless in 2 months. You can read about virtual account numbers here:
https://www.benefitbuilder.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-Numbers.aspx
https://www.citibank.com/us/cards/vanpromo/cmc_pop/index2.htm

Robert
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Janet Gaynor (center) in "The Young at Heart" (1938).
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I would contact eBay immediately...
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