If I'm going to buy an item on ebay the first thing I check is the seller's rating. I've never bought from anyone who has only had 1 item sold. I did buy from a person who had only sold 60 some odd items but he'd been a member of ebay for 9 years with 100% rating. I always use Paypal to pay so that I can get my money back if there's a problem, that's only happened once in all the time I've used ebay. It took 2 months but I did get my money back.