The purchase was done on eBay and it was quick, fast and easy. In eBay there is a feedback system, which both the seller and the buyer got to give each other a feedback with a rating of positive, neutral or negative after each successful transaction. This is an ingenious system by ebay, I must comment, which helps to separate those unreliable and untrustworthy seller and buyer.
The seller who I bought my trombone from got a 98.6% positive feedback at that point of time, and he had done more than 100+ transactions dealing with musical instrument, so I supposed this should be a safe online purchase. Furthermore, the instrument was first hand and cost only a few hundred dollars. In comparison to other trombone commercially sold in musical shops it was cheap. It was a good bargain and I couldn't resist the temptation to buy it.
The decision was made!
I got my friend with an eBay account to help me bid for the trombone(I'm lazy to create my own eBay account). And after a few days I won the bid. Next, I met my friend at Macdonald where I paid him in cash and he showed me the payment process on his laptop using his PayPal account to do the payment(I do not have a credit card).
Delivery was quick considering that it was shipped from overseas. It reached about 4 days after my payment. I was satisfied with the time taken for the delivery. I had previously thought that delivery from overseas will take at least a week or two, maybe that was many years ago.
I’m definitely pleased with my first ebay purchase!
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-Shaun