Posted
10:44 AM
by Gene
More than savvy consumers and aggressive retailers did in
eBay's auctions (assuming the past tense). What did them in was the inconvenience and pitfalls of auctioning: of having to place bids early and still not winning; of sniping; of being scammed; of sellers who'd only take checks; of PayPal's arbitrary spending limits. A thousand and one tiny problems merged into an insuperable one.