Mark Dery on the old, weird eBay

I used to think of ebay as that place you went to find good used stuff from private sellers. Until it became a an outlet for retailers. The nail in the coffin for me was the ‘sellers don’t get to negatively rate buyers’ and ‘we will do ANYTHING to protect against the possibility that ANY buyer might have even the scintilla of something about the experience that makes them think twice for even a nanosecond about using ebay again’. Killed it stone dead.

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