A6000 Said:
I have spent too much on Ebay already.
Amen brother. If nothing else we have that in common and agree on it.
A6000 also said:
the bidding system on Ebay does not get them the highest possible price.
Where else could the sellers go and get more? Ebay gets you the highest price you are going to get for your items 99.9% of the time because of the amount of people it reaches. 95% of the Amiga stuff that sells online would be sent to the landfills if it wasn't for EBay. It has kept the hobby alive. Could you imagine having a yard sale and getting $300 or $400 for an Amiga 4000? That happens everyday on EBay. At a yard sale you'd be hard pressed and really need the right buyer to get $30 or $40.
I remember reading one of Michael Moore's books and he was asking a business executive how much profit is enough? He couldn't get an answer because no amount of profit is ever enough from a company's (sellers) point of view. You always want more.