I already have a Fuji

 

Feedback is useless on ebay. A ring of merchants can bid on each other's ending auctions that had no bidders just to leave favorable feedback. There have been plenty of bogus sellers on ebay with almost 100% feedback.

 

Feedback does not have the meaning it once did. Since you get charged if something doesn't sell (as a company, it is sometimes more expensive to relist then it is to sell it) what a lot of sellers do is have a bunch of extra "buyer" accounts that they use to make the purchase at the last second, or to bump up the price on items without a reserve. During this process they also give themselves positive feedback (most of the time when you see A++++++++++ or something like that, this is what is happening).

The exhaust looks decent, but at this price I'd rather get one from a regular store for just a little bit more.

 

Sure people may shill bid and leave feedback but well over a thousand times and with negative feedbacks? Come on. I think that you all should be focusing on quality more so than his reputability as an eBay seller.

If you can't trust a seller with well over 1,000 feedback who accepts PayPal as their primary form of payment, then you can't trust anybody on eBay. If you can't trust anybody on eBay, you shouldn't be perusing or purchasing from the site.

 

So you don't think that reputability and his product quality aren't linked? This is flawed logic. Example: perfectly good quality mildly driven s2k with low miles and clean carfax, sold by the guy who stole it. You wouldn't go thru a purchase with someone like that would you?

Ebay can be used as a blind for the unscrupulous to hide behind.

If you can't trust anybody on eBay, you shouldn't be perusing or purchasing from the site."

-- You are 100% correct.

 

There is no flawed logic.

Perhaps instead of the word reputability, I should have used the word reliability as I was solely referring to the seller's ability to follow through on their auction.

There still remains however a gap between reputability and quality. This seller appears to be an honest seller gauging their feedback. You cannot however believe that simply because overall they appear to be an honest reseller that all of the products which they sell will be of equal quality. This does not only apply to this eBay seller but to retailers of all facets.

We as consumers have options. The consumer has a responsibility and/or option to educate themselves and ask any pertinent questions prior to bidding and purchasing a product on eBay. If you feel that the seller is in some way misrepresenting their product, do not purchase. Most any reputable seller will do whatever it takes to ensure that their feedback is not flawed by negatives as they are frowned upon heavily. A truly reputable seller will be honest, have good service, offer a quality product and accept returns.

The bottom line here is that you don't know unless you try and everything else up to that point is hearsay.

 

I have a Fuji and mine looked exactly like that one out of the box from a reputable vendor on this site. Why do you think it's fake?

 

Probably because the seller didn't mention the brand.

I just sent the seller an e-mail and hopefully he replies.