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

[Grasswire2]

A postal money order can not only be purchased, but also CASHED at a post office.

That way, I wasn't mixing eBay money with other household finances. Clean transaction, as good as cash.

I'm thinking of jumping back in at eBay -- looking around at my stash of collectibles.

[PortTack]

1. Kudos to you! Have sold there in the past, lots of stuff I could get rid of if I'd just get busy

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I keep putting it off, and putting it off, and putting it off...

[PortTack]

10. Same

[dem4decades]

2. I have a ton of NIB fishing lures, how hard is it to sell on ebay?

[Grasswire2]

5. I haven't used it for several years.

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.

[Chainfire]

7. As someone who just started a few months ago, it is not hard.

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.

[Chainfire]

4. I started selling off "collection" stuff about three months ago. $2,200.oo so far.

[Grasswire2]

6. cool

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

[dem4decades]

8. Nice!

[Vinca]

9. I keep telling myself I'm going to start selling on ebay again, too. I haven't

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.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. eBay changed about 2015

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.

[Vinca]

12. I've always had an impression that encouraging the mega-sellers ruined the site.

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.