Ebay was cool when it was a collection of mom and pops that typically policed themselves. I haven’t visited in years, though, as it has become one gnarly mess that looks more like scammers than genuine buyers and sellers.
They died from their own popularity.
They died from their own popularity.
It seems like as the years passed it got more expensive and more complex especially for the sellers and fees kept going up.
I don’t even go to the site anymore even to just shop and look.
I miss the self policing atmosphere of the good old days.
Slightly OT, a few years ago I sold a 67 Cougar project car to a guy in OK. He mailed me a check which was good and I spoke to him on the phone a couple of times. About a month later, I hadn’t heard from him.
I did the usual contact stuff through Ebay, his regular e-mail, and voice mail. I concerned that something happened to the guy. A couple of weeks later, he got in touch with me. He had been laid up in the hospital if I remember right. I was about to call the local sheriff to make sure the guy was still alive. A couple of weeks later, he sent two guys to pick it up and take it home.