I buy and sell on eBay on a weekly basis, it makes me a big part my living and buys almost every gun or hunting trip I purchase. It has it faults and problems but for the most part folks are honest. I could count on one hand the serious problems I've had on there and have been involved in literally thousands upon thousands of transactions.
You can sell stuff on there for more money than you can dragging it around to flea markets and gun shows a lot of the time. Example: I bought 14 LL Bean cork black ducks from a guy awhile back for $15 each. I put some of them out three times at a flea market, and twice at gun shows for $25 each without even a tire kicker looking at them. Put a group of three on eBay and in a week I had $160 for the group, another group of three, same kind of money, until they were all gone and I'd made some decent cash. Tried them in other selling venues first because I didn't want to fool with shipping them but in the end it was eBay that got me the sales.
If you don't like it, don't use it. Those of us that do, enjoy the money it makes and the items it puts in our collections that we'd never find elsewhere.
Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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