I have had a few minor successes on selling Craigslist and troll it fairly regularly, mostly the jobs and gigs section. Ebay as for me buying anything is when I have to look for some hard to find AMC & Willys parts that someone is turning loose.
99% of my Craigslist ventures have been OK to very pleasant. I can’t complain there.
Craigslist is frustrating to me. Listings appear random and run on forever, extremely time consuming to find anything of interest. What am I missing? Needs a search and refine function badly, imho.
The other thing that I’ve noticed is that I tend to be buying and selling bigger things, and E-Bay doesn’t work very well for that. I recently upgraded by treadmill and sold the old one on Craig’s list. It was a good model (Landice) that might have brought a couple of hundred more on E-Bay. But the thing weighed about 200 pounds. Who’s going to build a crate to put it in and get it to ashipping company etc, etc.
In the end it just seem simpler - take a couple of hundred less and have the guy come look at it, pay for it, and then haul it away.