> eBay pushing the prices of trash up On the other hand, for those who didn't live near ubiquitous junk availability, eBay kinda did the opposite. "Surplus resellers" tend to grossly inflate the price of all this junk, so it sits on their shelves indefinitely. Meanwhile, eBay became the yard-sale of old, offering a lot of it for far more reasonable prices (so long as the seller wasn't pretending to be a "real business").