[sybir]

Yep. Ebay is always a gamble. I've had good luck (it's a joke with my friends that I buy everything on there), and I'm not saying there aren't inexpensive vendors that have good service, but they're the exception, not the rule. I've been in the performance game too long and seen how too many mail-order/internet operations work to trust the vast majority of 'em. Everyone drop-ships, floats order money, and oversells, and makes up for it by paying some poor car guy minimum wage to handle too much work because he answered an ad on a car forum and thinks he's going to get his foot into the industry on his way to fame and fortune as a shop owner.