Watch those sellers!!
Been buying pewter off ebay and so far have had pretty good luck keeping my cost down to a reasonable amount and not having too many "bad" pieces (non-pewter) show up. Nothing anyway that's worth fussing about. Been buying mostly lot sales of "scrap" stuff. The sellers so far have all been great to deal with.
But, I just got burned by one seller in the past couple weeks. I won't out his name (yet) because ebay is dealing with him however ebay deals with this sort of situation. I am going to get my money back from ebay for a fairly large lot of scrap pewter listed "buy it now", but it's going to take a while and it's been a hassle.
The seller never shipped my purchase and never communicated until I made a claim with ebay on it. He finally responded to my emails saying that he "sent" a refund. Two days after that message and no indication anywhere a refund had been issued, the chat agent said no, no refund has been issued by the seller.
I don't know how easy it is for a fake feedback rating to be set up, but this joker has high marks across the board. My issue with him though, definitely isn't worthy of any high marks.
All part of the risk of buying anything online basically sight unseen, but I'm glad ebay has the money back guarantee to fall back on with this one.