At the beginning e-bay was really good but as others have said it's now beginning to have problems with rogue buyers and sellers moving in and also some of the originally good shop sellers running into management issues - a recent British example was Leedsmodelcentre who at one time had a great feedback score but latterly were getting many negatives. I've done quite a bit of buying and selling model trains and 'planes and 'buses and enjoyed being able to change my collection round at the beginning. Indeed it was through e-bay that I got my user name - wanted to be Towser after a stuffed toy dog which my late mother made many years ago and which still exists but that user name was taken, then I tried Cessna152 which was the 'plane I was flying at the time and that was taken too, so I ran them both together. It made sense to keep the same user name when I started to do fora rather than try to find and remember another one. Lately e-bay's becoming a hassle with buyers having to be prodded umpteen times before they pay and sellers needing prodded before they deliver.