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eBay has been slowly moving away from being an auction house (the internet's garage sale) for years now. They have been moving towards becoming the "storefront" for people selling things without needing an actual physical store. Hence the attention to "Buy It Now" and "Add to Cart" over "Bid".

There's a "Make Offer" button. And Buy It Now stuff is really common on eBay these days. Surely "the point of eBay" is whatever people do with it?

The $2k is just a price cap, you can still bid on it.