the art. The other note of caution is, EBay only works with

PayPal giving you no purchase security.

Unless you're prepared to take some fairly heavy risks

with your money online or on EBay, stay as far away as you

can.

There's a true story of a man who tried to acquire a

very expensive sculpture by a very well known artist and

found it to be half price on EBay. My advice to him was to

save a lot of headaches and not go through EBay, but the

temptation of the hunt was too strong. He sent $10,000 to

a lady in Nevada who claimed to have the sculpture. When

the sculpture didn't arrive he was dismayed. The local

district attorney's office, eventually through endless

pestering from the man, wound up investigating the whole

matter.

The discovery... the lady had sold 7 or 8 of these

sculptures to various people and no one is now certain she

ever had even one.