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cool48 said:
 

 The guy I'm looking at has 98.2% positive out of 229 000 sales but it just seems that a lot of the negative ones are complaining about how the ram doesn't work.


I would say no then.  The negatives state exactly what your worried about.  Additionally, the big sellers usually push customers into giving good scores.  That's why I arbitrarily use 99.5% for a good rating (unless I'm fine with the negatives) because ebay is stupid in that it allows the seller to rate the buyer as well.  So I will never give a neutral rating, and I have to feel completely screwed in the transaction before I give a bad rating.  Because my rating will most likely be going down too even though I did nothing wrong.

I like ebay alot and make several purchases on it.  But sometimes it's just worth it to pay 10-20% more and not have something that isn't what you want.