Quoted from flashinstinct:.now it's a place with shipping gouging because people want don't want to pay all the fees.
Actually sellers on ebay can no longer "gouge" on shipping as ebay now charges a fee for the cost of shipping. Several years ago people were selling a $100 item on ebay for .01 cent and then charging $100 to ship it. Ebay caught onto this and started to charge a fee for the shipping charge! So you pay a fee to put an item on ebay to sale, pay a final fee once it sells, pay a fee to use PayPal and then pay a fee on the shipping rate you charged!
On top of being fee'd out of the wha-ka-zoo ebay does very little to protect sellers. When a buyer bails out on paying for an item or makes a bogus claim against a seller ebay's response to the seller is "work it out with the seller as ebaY's policy is not to mediate between a seller and buyer".
ebay is a great place for exposure, other than that I can't say anything else positive about it and I have a 100% positive feedback with them!