Life with Ebay, in its current form, is much better than life before ebay. I agree ebay was better, for me, ten years ago; but it is still good.

My main beef is the 'search' function. When I search for 'leather saddle' I don't want to see hundreds of 'faux leather' and 'synthetic leather' and 'leather look' saddles, and the only way to screen them out is to screen out every misleading term I can think of. When they're properly categorized, there's no problem; but the most interesting items are usually not categorized correctly. I guess that's also what makes ebay rewarding; the categories are confusing to the novice, so when a novice is selling something on ebay, they are likely to miscategorize it in some crucial way, so the person who finds it has a decent shot at picking it up cheap.