Making your eBay feedback private means nothing. I have seen folks do that with 0 feedback just because they are a private person. Also, I have bought stuff from spenceranne and retrogeek and have never had any problems at all. He is sometimes slow when it comes to shipping, but that is it. I asked retrogeek why he only accepts cash and Postal money orders and this was his responce: "When I first started selling stuff on eBay years ago, I use to accept everything as payment. Then one day I sold this guy a rare black GI Joe for $431.00. He mailed me a money order from his bank and I deposited it into my checking account. Since it was a Bank Money Order, I went ahead and shipped him his GI Joe. The following Friday, I went to my bank and they told me that the guy issued a stop payment on the Bank Money Order. I then went home and emailed the guy to find out what was going on and he never answered any of my emails. So he issued a stop payment on the Bank Money Order and kept the rare black GI Joe. This happened to me again when I sold a rare Matchbox Model of Yesteryear for $317.00. The person issued a stop payment and kept the car. I asked my bank what I could do to keep this from ever happening again and they told me to only accept cash or a Postal money order. A stop payment can not be issued on these two forms of payment. So now, that is what I do".
