Its not exactly about fear of eBay trading (nor Vanagons) but just saw
a BBC documentary on fear in the US called "The Power of Nightmares",
and its is a MUST SEE:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm

Chris

On 8/5/05, Robert Rountree <syncro87@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm an American/Canadian.. born in the US, did the Navy, College in Canada.
> I shop on E-bay and I'm finding the same problems, about people afraid of
> shipping to Canada. Yet I drive and ship to The US all the time.. no
> problem... here's the strange part for me (you knew the strange part was
> coming right?).... of all this talk about break-in's and stealing stuff and
> dishonest folks on e-bay... did ya happen to notice none of us Canadians are
> talking about this happening to us? and there are a lot of us on this
> list.... the fear all seems to be south of the border.. and this new drummed
> up fear really breaks my heart to see.
> 
> RR
>