Over the past 2 years I have bought and sold a number of scopes on e-bay without a problem but the last three have been a problem, I brought a monarch scope, it turns up in perfect condition but the image is not moving, I contacted the seller he apologised, told me to return it and refunded my payment and postage. ok a bit of a pain but no stress. So I bought another monarch, only a few months old, in perfect condition, that arrived, it was a grey import with scratches to the objective lens and marks in the coating, and once more the image won't move, here we go again contacted the seller, in this case he said he didn't know about the damage to the lens and the scope was working when it left him, and he stated no returns so hard luck your not getting your money back. I e-mailed e-bay who I have to admit were great, in no time at all I had a refund and the scope was returned. now this is the one I really kick myself for, I brought another, you would have thought I'd have learnt a lesson by now! this time a Leupold it arrived and appeared to be in A1 condition, crystal clear lens, not a mark to the body at all just two tiny chips to the paint on the adjuster caps, what used scope doesn't have those ,but wait for it, on turning the scope over there was a rattle, so I gave it a gentle shake and believe me my baby played with quieter ones, on to the seller, it was perfect when it left me, don't send it back I'll make a claim and I don't want them to be able to say it happened on the return, plausible and I'm helpful, but no mention of a refund, he called me later to say I have to make the claim and once more no offer of a refund, I asked him a few questions about the scope and his answers just didn't stack up, so once more over to e-bay, so learn by my mistakes only buy from reputable dealers on e-bay and only have contact by e-mail though e-bay itself, never enter into phones calls e-bay have no record of them! over two years I have brought and sold about 10 scopes, some have been from the US and if you disregard the last three not one has been damaged, the last two I'm sure have been sold by dishonest owners trying to ditch their junk on e-bay, oh and yes they both had 100% records so don't take that as an assurance