Have you ever been worry about bidding on account that could have been hijacked??  There is a few clue!

1.  Never bid on auctions that request you to email them to different address.  You should always email through ebay.  This is way hijacker can answer your questions without you knowing that the account been hijacked.

2.  Never bid on auctions that say other means of payment and does not specify what the payment are and say contact me.

3.  Hijacker can hijacked your account and still have paypal that is not the seller's account.  So always email thru ebay to the seller. 

4.  Beware if it is a 24 hours auctions!  Hijacker always list them as 24 hours!! If you see it is 24 hours, email to seller thru ebay and see if the account been hijacked or not.

5.  So far, all the listing I have see with hijacker does not have picture with ebay.  The pictures should be on the upper left and not only on the bottom.  Ebay have free first pictures.  Hijacker does not want to take the time to add the picture

6.  If seller said it been hijacked, report it to ebay that the account been hijacked.

7.  Check seller's feedback to see if she sell something similar. 

I hope this will help you to be careful and not to lose your money.