Items selling for two bucks get the same general level of service as items selling for two million . Over 1500 categories cover almost any conceivable legal item, though worrying over the impact of gun laws has led the service to discontinue firearms listings this year. At any given moment, eBay lists more than a million items for sale, a number so astonishing to me, at least at first, that I had to go poking around in some of the categories in search of desirable oddities. It didn't take long to find a fistful of goodies for my shelf. I was ready to go shopping.
Bidding is a simple matter of completing a form and watching events unfold.
Items in great demand, needless to say, get lots of bids, which inevitably pushes the price up. Supply and demand in its purest form. One potential problem with an online auction is that you have no way of knowing much of anything about the traders themselves. Active traders with good records have scores in the hundreds, even thousands.