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eBay has become one of my guilty pleasures for things like soccer jerseys and obscure music. Regardless, I consider the business eBay conducts suspect if not to a lesser degree fraudulent.

Consider the time I left my electric razor power cord in an Orlando hotel room. Within a few days, I had one from a seller on eBay who charged me $8 and another $11 to ship the thing. A friend reminded me that it probably was the hotel maid who listed it, while eBay could care less that the actual shipping cost was only two dollars.

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