I never really looked at ebay before I found myself unemploy[ed|able]. I thought it was for collectors, and that’s not me. More of an accumulator (collecting implies purpose).
But actually ebay is an interesting experience. I find the way people sell things to be a learning experience.
It can be such a crap shoot buying technical items like PC components that are just parted out of various systems. You buy something and hope the guy either put the right info in the ad or didn’t leave anything out. Last week, I got a tape drive for backups for $22. A little research to find out what kind it is and how it will work and I discover it sold new for $1,600 (yes, that was 5-6 years ago, but still . . . . )
I sold a DSL modem a few months back for $55 and others were selling the same thing for less. They put no info in the listings, and I know I want as much information as I can get on stuff I can’t examine. So I went to Cisco’s website and posted all the specs for the unit as HTML (copy and paste: not a lot of work) and it was worth the $20 to do it.