I guess Im a good buyer then. Ive only filed a claim one time and it was a game that took almost 3 months to arrive at the house. I held out as long as I could before I would have ended up getting nothing. Do people really file crappy false claims all the time?
I don't think it's as common as it sounds, but it does seem to be a "when it rains, it pours" type phenomenon. :/
To date, I've had one ebay item I bought never show (would have been two, one of which I escalated to an Ebay case, but it actually showed up a month and a half after it was shipped, meaning it was a PO error, and the seller had been entirely honest, so I repaid him.
As for selling, I've had two no-show Etsy orders (I send them 1st Class, so no big) and one supposedly broken Ebay item, which I didn't even fight due to the nature of the item. ::shrugs:: (35 year old amp.)