I had a bad and good experience purchasing a bow off of ebay. I bought a bow that was described as an '03 Patriot single cam off ebay for $300... well it turned out to be an '02... which I didn't like.. and that bow was soo top heavy it wasn't even funny. So I turned around and sold it back on Ebay.. and it sold for $400... so that was the good part of that deal. I then bought an '03 dually Patriot from a guy off Archery talk for $375... which he hand delivered at the ATA show... thing was new as of Oct '03.. So that's my experience buying bows on ebay. I've bought several accessories off ebay.. and got some very good deals there also.

A few words of caution...

1: make sure item is correctly described
2: if questions aren't awnsered.. then don't bid
3: if something doesn't feel right.. then it's prolly not
4: watch the shipping charges... some guys try to sell items cheap and rip you on the shipping. Seen a good treestand going for $50 the other day... shipping was $100.