I used to spend a lot of money on E-bay but haven’t as much since they stopped selling guns parts. Too bad, there were some great deals to be had that I can’t seem to find anywhere else. Fortunately for E-bay my wife has stepped up and started buying clothes on E-bay.
I have bought and sold gun parts and reloading supplies on Ebay. It is still allowed in most cases. The restrictions are difficult to understand and maddening in some cases. For instance you can buy or sell all your reloading dies, presses and tools, but you can't buy empty brass. You can buy lead and bullet molds but you can't buy powder. I will say however that when I sold some excess reloading tools last year... they sold for more than I paid for them even with the excessive fees.
That really ticked me off when the leftists at EBay stopped allowing sales of brass, bullets, and magazines.
I had a seller who sold bulk quantities of once fired 45 ACP brass in single manufacturer lots and she supposedly went to Auction Arms, but I have yet to find her there.
Bullets are the same way.
I have greatly scaled back my EBay shopping and do a lot of buying off of Amazon and Craigslist now. I have started buying weapons related stuff off of Auction Arms but some of the deals are not as great as they used to be on EBay.
The idea that E-Bay is tough on sellers in relation to buyers is beyond laughable.
E-Bays real name should be SPAM-Bay
From the stand point of a buyer. In the categories I am interested in 95% of the listings are spam. The sellers have some bot that posts the listings, they list dozens of identical items everyday, items with inflated prices or junk or both. In 95-99% of the cases the buy it now price with shipping is higher than regular online merchants for the identical item.
My initial search for an item might turn up typically 5000 hits, if I filter out ‘buy it now’ that number will drop to 400 or 500; if I filter again for items that have received at least one bid that number will fall under 100 often.
In other words of the listings in my category less than 5% are actually real auction, the rest is spam. By real auction meaning the seller has an item in their possession that they offer it for sale to the highest bidder.
I know there are exceptions to this and in certain categories the E-bay market seams to work well.
I buy and sell on both of them....
eBAY is the 800 lb. gorilla...and I still buy and sell there..but hope to totally leave someday.
onlineauction.com is a nice place to buy stuff...but not a good selling place for me.