I've used eBay the past 3 years quite often to find hard to source parts for my CJ restoration.
I've been taken advantage of by unscrupulous sellers who hide damaged portions of their items when photographing them, blatantly lied of the condition, sell reproductions for authentic, etc. Fortunately on every purchase complaint I've filed eBay and/or PayPal has backed me up and I've gotten a refund. The lesson here is you better have a very fast learning curve of what real parts are and be sure to ask lots of questions to the seller. Do your due diligence or risk getting screwed. Buy a disc(s) that has the '65 through '73 parts identifications and applications book on it. If a seller does not respond or does not specifically address your question avoid him like the plague.
Now a little about integrity. Since when has it become OK and acceptable to "sorta", "kinda", "almost", "maybe", describe an item for sale? Yes, deceit has been around for thousands of years but telling this neophyte car hobbyist it's his fault for buying the misrepresented item misses the mark. There is a level of honest interpretation that the item one is purchasing is what the heading of the item description says it is. An analogy that comes to mind is that each time you wanted to eat a steak you first had to run a DNA scan to be sure it was beef. The sign said steak so one has a level of belief that it is cow not horse.
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