It's Now Completely Impossible to Sell a Laptop on eBay

The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has discovered the awful truth behind today’s eBay–something many readers here already know–which is that it’s become virtually impossible to sell any sort of medium- to high-end electronics there anymore.

Timothy’s email went on for about two weeks, so we’ve tried to edit it for length.

“eBay seems now to be essentially broken. What used to be a ‘virtual yard sale’ where one could hunt for–and potentially find–a good deal on a broad variety of eclectic items has now turned (in my opinion at least) into a hybrid mass of scammers and shady garage-retailers, clumped together with a straggling, dying breed of people who used to be excited about eBay, but who are now wishing it would return to what it used to be.”

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