I buy stuff on EBay all the time, as well as sell some flies there. I just bought a complete Golden Pheasant hide, and it is absolutely perfect, and beautiful. It cost me a whopping $12.00 + $3.00 shipping. A bargain in anyone's book. I get most of my hooks on Ebay, as well as many other things.

I have gotten burned once or twice, but the great deals I have gotten over the years more than off-set it. And I learned how not to get burned.

Semper Fi.