Now that Shawn is working again, there are a few things I’m wanting to try and save up for that I’ve been lusting after (for ages).

One being an Apple iPhone! I’m just dying to have one and I’ve finally made up my mind that I just want to save up for an unlocked one so that I can keep my current phone number and stay with T-mobile.

My biggest problem is that I am reluctant to buy one off eBay. I’m not entirely sure why but I’m really scared of a scam or getting ripped off with something so expensive. The couple times I’ve bought phones on eBay, the first one (a treo, I think) the keys didn’t work well and I had to ship it back for an unlocked Blackberry 7290. The damn thing was infact, not unlocked so I had to purchase an unlock code.

Of course there was an error during the unlocking process because the person selling the “unlock codes” did not have enough credits to give me a code so I had to buy yet another code from another seller.

I guess I just don’t trust people and I really have no clues what to look for when it comes to buying an iPhone on eBay. Am I protected by paypal when it comes to scams or does it depend on the seller?