As someone on an Amazon boycott, Ebay works pretty well for just about anything I've wanted.

ebay sellers are way more respectable than ebay management.

I'm an ebay seller and I'd never send someone spiders, unless, they paid for them.

eBay has the best prices on used electronics and buying weird/niche stuff that can't be found on Amazon imo.

I trust them more than Amazon. I don't trust them much, but... like, a lot more than Amazon.

In our city there's a flea market in a bad part of town where the parking lot has a metal sliding gate and there's barbed wire on the roof and all the windows have bars (obviously, given the rest of that) and there are live vendors in there hawking their goods at folding tables, with about the proportion (... high) of stolen and counterfeit goods you'd expect.

That's Amazon. Ebay's like an ordinary, mediocre antique mall. You might buy something that's crap or was misrepresented, or you might overpay, but it's not an entire business basically dedicated to crime.

I know exactly the type of flea market and antique mall you're talking about, and that's the best analogy for current-Amazon and always-eBay I've heard. Ha!

Books out of print for example.

IMO eBay is still the best option for selling some things if you don't want to sell in-person.

eBay is the second largest eCommerce site by sales behind Amazon. They sell more new merchandise than used these days.

First is Aliexpress

Amazon is 2nd

eBay is third