The very first thing I bought many years ago when I had 0 feedback was a black-and-white Game Boy game, which was around $4 including postage. I waited, and waited, and waited for it to travel by post from Blackburn to Ringwood (all of five kilometres apart in Melbourne's eastern suburbs). Three or so weeks later I filed an INR request (or just messaged the seller, as I don't remember if INR etc. was actually a thing then) with my hopeless now 1 feedback account and got a refund as it literally never turned up. Bear in mind, this was still the wild west era of eBay, back when a seller could leave a red mark for buyers and didn't even have to refund anyone, it was all down to a seller's goodwill. With extreme luck, I just happened to find a nice seller, but even then I was greeted with a message that he wouldn't refund me a second time, as that was pretty much the standard thing to stop scammers.

The year was 2012 - a whopping nine years after I had created my eBay account, which I had completely forgotten about for that long as I didn't buy or sell anything online. That changed in 2012 when the bank reissued my bankcard as a "smart" debit card, opening up a new world of gimmicks (at the time), such as online shopping on sites that did not accept bankcards or BSB numbers etc. (eBay did, but I never bothered because I didn't consider buying anything online back then).