Ouch. Sorry about the eBay thing -- having been through it multiple times during my collecting days, I feel your pain. I'd send all your emails to her to eBay itself, just to protect yourself. And the FBI isn't going to concern itself over one person whose CD got lost in the mail. That said, I'd send her money back to her, just to shut her up.

And as for VM, although I haven't watched one episode this season (I was spoiled enough last summer to know it would suck this year), I still read lots of spoiler stuff about it, and I just have to tell you: if you're disgusted with it now, just wait. It will quite soon match or eclipse the suck that was UPN Buffy (and this is much more horrible because the decline was so fast and steep -- at least Buffy was good for five seasons). I myself am never again going to attach myself to genre shows unless they're put out by SciFi or HBO. Feh.