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The bidding part is ironically pretty terrible.

The Buy It Now products I find better than Amazon a lot of the time. If there's a random PC part I need or something for vintage computing I will always go to eBay first.

Any of the bidding or used hw sales I just stick with Reddit r/*swap subreddits.

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I tend to agree - Amazon was king but now I can usually find cheaper products on Ebay and faster shipping to my locale than Amazon. Unless its an industrial lego piece coming from China - but then the price is insanely better.

I can't figure out what benefit Amazon brings these days... They seem like the most expensive option for anything not mainstream.

Ebay has been try to copy Amazon's success for the past 10 years. Now they both suck.

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