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I bought my truck on eBay. Had an interesting experience however. I originally bid and won on an auction for a 2008 Ford F350 King Ranch with about 47k miles on it from a Florida Dealer. Dealer had high reviews so I felt comfortable with that. It was a holiday weekend when I bought it and so did not get a reply from the dealer until 3 days after bidding and when I did he advised that someone else had bought it off the lot. I was pretty mad at this because it was a good deal and complained to eBay who basically said there was nothing I could do. Lesson would be to contact the dealer prior to finalising the bidding.
In the end I ended up with an even better deal. For the same price I got a Ford F350 XLT with only 2600Mi on the clock but which had had so many extras added to it it was practically a Lariat spec. This I also got from a dealer. The dealer was a major BMW dealer who traded the truck on BMer and was only looking to recover trade-in cost. The previous owner had taken a real bath on the truck as the Ford spec sheet indicated an original price over $20k above what I got it for. The truck is practically brand new and having driven it now from Atlanta to Middlebury, In, we really love it. Still haven't towed the Monster yet, however, as plates hadn't arrived before we had to return home (NZ.) Currently have it stored in Chicago awaiting our return in May.
Anyway back to your question. In the end my eBay buying experience ended up well. I did buy through a dealer so could not comment on private sales.
Cheers
Craig
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