Want to bid on one of his auctions but....This auction got pulled several days ago and is now re-listed.

I emailed the seller and his response was "Someone stole my ebay account so ebay pulled them out for me. Everything is okay now"

This seller has a feedback score of (0) New member as of March 2nd 06

Anyone have any info?? If I should bid on this auction is there anyway to protect myself against a bad deal?

Thanks