Agreed. Every once in a while I consider selling something on eBay, think for a few seconds about the effort it would require to take different pictures, write up a compelling description, figure out shipping costs, find some decent packaging... ah whatever.

I love eBay as a buyer though, especially in Canada. There are still a ton of random things on there that really can't be found (at least not nearly as easily) anywhere else.

Amazon FBA is pretty awesome for this. You gather up all of the items you want to sell, set prices for each one, and then print shipping labels to ship them to Amazon. Everything after that is handled by Amazon (fulfillment, customer support, etc), and you are sent money.

Unfortunately this only really works for items already listed on Amazon - otherwise you need to create new listings.

You have to define whose time and what type of things but I'm in broad agreement. I know I haven't sold anything on eBay in ages and, even when I did, I found the ROI pretty poor. I also note that the various services offering to sell your stuff for a cut seem to be largely gone as well.

And I haven't bought anything through their traditional auction format in ages either. I don't really collect stuff and I'm not much inclined to do the auction thing when a few clicks at Amazon or Newegg will get me almost as good a deal (at minimum) for electronics for less hassle and risk.