Former Ebay Power Seller here.
Echo comments from all the above in that Ebay has become a corporate juggernaut who fleeces the small businesses and then fails to support them when a buyer scams them.
We stopped selling via Ebay this year.

Looking for alternative sites now.

However, self-employed and it's hard to finding legitimate business outlets and people. Honest business people are looking for great outlets without losing the shirts off our backs. Thanks for all you do!

I had been on eBay for 10 years. Started when it was geared toward the mom and pop sellers. Back when eBay cared about the folks who used and grew their service.

When the corporate greed crept in everything went to h3ll! Fee hikes every year. No protections for sellers. Paypal required. It became an avsolute joke! Every change was geared toward making more money for eBay and less money for those who make eBay work. It's a business model for disaster!

In my quest for an alternative I found several sites that wanted to take up the slack. Some good, some really bad. And while this Glyde concept sounds interesting, it does nothing for those that really want to sell like they used to in the old days of eBay.

If you want to use a site that IS like the old days of eBay, I suggest looking at ebid.net . Very low fees, a growing number of catagories and an ever increasing user base. $50 gets you lifetime free listings with something like a 5% final value fee. That's it! And you can take money any way you choose. Given time, I think it has a lot of potential. But you all can be the judge!

...with their fees and BS and more fees and more BS... and auctions -- what a dumb, stupid, retarded way to buy and sell anyway.
Here's a novel idea -- how about simple, plain-vanilla, online classified ads... why, it's called Craig's List and it's FREE!
...that is, until ebay takes it over and destroys it with their fees and BS and more fees and more BS...

Did one bid and won once on eBay (my only purchase ever from that rid-off site) and used paypal and paid $50 for the item I bought. Seller took the money, delayed, apologized for the delay and dragged there feet too the point I won my contesting of the auction with paypal. However all paypal (which is wholly owned by eBay)would do is promise to secure my $50 in the event that the scammer ever used paypal again.

That was 5 years ago and I am still waiting.... So if eBay goes under, I hope they impode!

Anon

I'm all for anyone who can help put eBay six feet under. Their new rules and fees make it nearly impossible for casual sellers to maintain their sanity. They rules now favor buyers to the point that outright fraud and scams go unpunished, and sellers just have to "suck it up" and try to recoup their losses from sales to the dwindling ranks of honest buyers.