I know when I first decided to get into iris's without knowing where else to go to I tried out a couple sellers on ebay. Needless to say none of those are still around anymore (the iris's) but I did take away valuable lessons such as what has already been discussed here. I no longer do much for business there unless I know very well who it is I may be dealing with. Even on one of the gardening trade groups through F/Book I have a list made up of reputable business's to try to steer people away from getting hoaxed through ebay purchases.