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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by Lammy on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:37PM (#22983058)
Those sellers never left eBay. It just got harder to find them among the noise. I still frequently have that great "old eBay" experience today when buying from sub-100-feedback sellers.
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by q084yn39cptyth on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:10PM (#22984024)
I've found that if you restrict purchases to goods in "preowned" condition for a lot of things you basically get the same Ebay as before.

The tricky part is that there's a lot of people selling preowned goods as "new", usually they're items they purchased or received as a gift they never used. I think they're trying to emphasize the unused nature of the items, but nowadays they just get lost in the noise of direct-from-the-factory items.

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