Ebay free listing isn't going to make me use their site like I once used to. Over the last 25 years I've watched the constant 'improvements' they make to the search algorithms and user interface just turn the experience into an unbearable chore, so I just don't use them unless I absolutely have to (just like my aversion to using Amazon). I've probably gone from using it multiple times every day, making daily purchases to maybe looking at it once a week now and not buying anything.
The listings are just so full of trash these days. There are hundreds of thousands of scripted arbitrage bot sellers and drop shippers, all with random prices for the same items that make finding the best deal real pain in the ****.
Obviously the niche markets have much better connected communities now with forums, facebook pages, discord and private groups taking away what I guess was a large amount of serious money sales.
The peak days of me being able to buy a pinball table for £150 or a Roland TR808 drum machine for £500 have long gone, and while ebay had been a lot easier than buying all the FreeAds and Loot papers from across the country, trying to sniff out arcade cabs in the '90s like I used to, I'm not going to miss the trauma of what ebay is now!
