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Rather than being a joke, it worked for me, and always got scammers to back down.

And I would venture to say that a greater cause of what has made ebay a "cesspool" is ebay's complicity in the widespread emergence of "power sellers" and middle men who foist large lots of useless junk on happless wannabes who end up with pallets of crap in their garage they can't unload because there are hundreds of other people who are already selling the same things.

It's taken ebay out of the realm of individuals trading their treasures and put it in the hands of greedy opportunists who are there only to make a quick buck.