when I was first selling on eBay, I required payment via USPS money order.

I think it might be a little more complicated with rules involving payment.
And if you're going to do it, do it this year because next year the IRS gets involved again and wants more documentation from some sellers.

As long as you are willing for eBay to take a big bite of your sales and are willing to put up with 1 out of about 20 asshole buyers, it is a piece of cake. Some years ago, I sold fishing lures on the site and they did very well.

It's time, for me. Oh what a bunch of stuff I have.

sold there for 20 years and from what I can gather it's not what it once was. But, I've got a roomful of stuff from my years of selling antiques and collectibles and it's got to go somewhere. Maybe in the fall. LOL.

Search engines. Online I think they call it throttling. I feel metered. Items no longer get page views. You can't find your own items even when they're the lowest price of the same item by far. More fees, fees on postage, fees on sales taxes, shipping rates about five times what they were 20 years ago. Low price items are ignored, either by eBay choice or by buyer recognition of shipping costs. Collectibles? People with smart phones don't need collectible buzz. We've become a very utilitarian world.

On the other hand, certain types of collectibles might cut it. Baseball cards. 1960s toys. I guess my take is a downer, but eBay is just a waste of time. I'm ready to can it for good. And I don't find myself looking at other competing sites. It's just as bad there.

I seem to buy lots of things on there still, but the difference in transactions between sellers who have hundreds of thousands of listings and a mom and pop operation with a hundred items is very apparent. With the first you feel like everything is rubber stamped and with the second you're likely to get a thank you note. The second is the ebay I like.