Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
I use eBay frequently. I have only bought things, but I want to sell things, however I&#x27;m terrified of getting scammed. And eBay does nothing to ameliorate those fears. I got as close as taking pictures, writing a description, and stopped at the last step before putting my item for sale. Everything I&#x27;ve read suggests that it&#x27;s simply not worth it to try to sell things because you have no protection from scammers.<p>As a buyer, however, it&#x27;s great so unless you have enough margins to protect you from scammers, and if you just want to sell one-off things like eBay from the 2000s, then don&#x27;t bother.<p>As a technology platform, eBay is an embarrassment. They released features like collections that didn&#x27;t work on their production website and it looks like they got rid of it entirely now. They have a half-built API that has confusing documentation, and their APIs that do work aren&#x27;t very useful. Nothing about their site has changed in 20 years, and they&#x27;re waiting to die, like Yahoo. I&#x27;m surprised Amazon or even etsy hasn&#x27;t been able to destroy them yet, since they&#x27;re a stationary target that hasn&#x27;t done anything meaningful in over a decade.