Has eBay been ruined by scams?
Although I am not currently a user of eBay (I did sell a few items there some years ago) I have always thought that it was a great concept. A general marketplace where a person’s unwanted stuff could find a home and provide a little extra cash was an excellent idea. Originally, there was a community of users who worked to keep transactions honest and provided a certain level of trust. As professional sellers and buyers began to replace the individuals who were just selling something they no longer needed, the atmosphere changed from that of a gigantic yard sale to a less friendly commercial one. Moreover, as they are doing to so much of the Internet, scammers have destroyed much that used to be attractive about eBay. A post at the Consumerist describes one man’s troubles when he tried to sell a laptop:
eBay seems now to be essentially broken. What used to be a ‘virtual yard-sale’ where one could hunt for - and potentially find - a good deal on a broad variety of eclectic items has now turned (in my opinion at least) into a hybrid mass of scammers and shady garage-retailers, clumped together with a straggling, dying breed of people who used to be excited about eBay, but who are now wishing it would return to what it used to be.
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