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You can also use the plastic diffuser material to make the sides, instead of poster board. This is what I did (using a 50% off coupon to buy a pack of the thin plastic sheets in the quilting section at Jo-Anns) and I love the results!! The plastic lets more light through as well. I would definitely be wary of using poster board. I wrote about my project here: http://house-capades.blogspot.com/2012/07/surprise-chevronical-finish.html

Thanks for sharing these! I wish more people realized these scams are out here, and that I'd realized sooner that PayPal does basically nothing for the seller. I was tricked by an ingenious scam a few years ago:

I was selling a nice printer on ebay, ($200ish) with only confirmed addresses eligible and shipping tracking and confirmation included. Welll after I sent the package, before it got to him, the buyer submitted a 'change of address form' to the USPS, to forward the package to another (unconfirmed) address!

My tracking info said that the package was delivered to the original address. Further communication with post office revealed that they had sent the package on to the unconfirmed address. The sender first claimed that the new address was his brother's and he was holding it for him, then changed his story and said the package had never arrived at the shady address, and opened a complaint file.

Despite all the proof that I had sent the package to the confirmed address, PayPal sided with the buyer and charged me the cost of the printer to refund it to the buyer. I called PayPal three times with all the information and emails I had from the buyer, trying to convince them that this guy was a scam so that he couldn't scam other people. At one point the rep said something like "oh yes I see he's had three similar conflicts before - but it's not our policy to look into this". So frustrating. Have avoided PayPal ever since!