I have love/hate relationship with Ebay .
On one hand, I can find really great deals on hard-to-find items. Often better than any local store or garage sale.
I've picked up laptops for $0.01 (not counting shipping, which was affordable anyway).
I can get high top Vans for under $30, shipped to my door (sometimes new, often in great condition).
You can get out-of-season holiday candy. I just bought some Cadbury Mini Eggs for my wife, AFTER Easter. No problem. Can't find them anywhere else.
As a buyer, I'm not even worried about bad deals. Ebay has a pretty good money-back guarantee, and they usually side with the buyer in most cases.
Which makes being a seller kinda suck, on the other hand.
Here's something interesting: Only buyers can leave negative feedback. Sellers are forced to leave only positive feedback or none at all.
This makes for a lop-sided system. This is just one small example. There are plenty of others, as anyone who has sold for any length of time on Ebay can tell you.
And, what's with these buyers who bid up an auction and then vanish? Usually ghost accounts with zero feedback or history. There are ways around this, sure.
But why the hell does it even happen? Is it bored people bidding for fun? Is it other sellers seeing the auction as competition? I just don't know how anyone would benefit from bidding up an auction and then walking away.
Bots? Perhaps. It sucks anyway. At least you can do a second-chance offer to the next person in line, but that seems so unprofessional. "Hey, I know you lost the auction, but you lost to a bot. Do you still want in?" Kinda weird.
Anyway, the point is, I have stuff up for sale on Ebay from time to time. Be sure to check out my sales if you want to catch a good deal. Oh, and I accept cryptocurrency, so if you want to pay using a crypto method, I can make that happen.