I buy at least 50% of the supplies needed for my fishing guide business on E-Bay.. I'm perfectly comfortable buying used - BUT.... you have to know what things are worth in the real world, and I walk away from stuff all the time if it's bid up too high, or I have the slightest suspicion that something's not kosher... Every now and then I end up on the short end - but rarely for much at all...

Noting the large number of bids alone would send me somewhere else...