> This is why I, as most sellers, do only fixed-price listings anymore.

This.

I regularly buy on eBay and decided to sell a number of old hand tools. I have sold before, but not for a while. I put the the first tool as an auction to get the hang again, then waited 10 days for something to happen. During that time I purchased several items using buy it now and realised that I now AVOID auctions unless the items is particularly rare or special.

The BIN selling options interface seems to vary significantly depending on how you crate the listing: starting on somebody else's items and clicking "sell one like this" or creating a new listing from scratch, for instance.

But, yeah, I'm converted to Buy It Now as a buyer and a seller.

Yep - I had zero problems with fixed price on ebay with over a hundred listings. I sold my entire comic collection (over 2500 books) over the course of a year. The best compromise between auction and fixed price is setting fixed price with a "make an offer" option - then set the make offer option to reject all the low ballers automatically. :)

I avoid auction like the plague.

That makes sense but in my case the auction is also a price discovery thing. In the end I sold for about twice what I thought I could get from these items.

You can list for a high-end price and use the "best offer" feature to capture lower offers.