{"slug": "ebay", "name": "eBay", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 9, "warners": 1, "score": 3.777, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-01-08", "latest": "2026-07-28", "why": "I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 4, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.ebay.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["eBay"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 768289104, "item_id": 48018069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018069", "by": "Scoundreller", "date": "2026-05-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "EBay does do search well. Exact phrase matches, negation, ORs", "excerpt": "EBay does do search well. Exact phrase matches, negation, ORs A search for this works exactly as you expect: (Lamborghini Urus, Audi RS Q8, and Volkswagen Touareg) \u201cstereo wiring harness\u201d -untested It\u2019s gotten a bit more fuzzy if you do something wrong. I used to have an alert for a mis-spelled brand name to snipe stuff :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"}, {"id": 768125792, "item_id": 48007862, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007862", "by": "idiotsecant", "date": "2026-05-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's actually a useful business, I use it all the time", "excerpt": "They better not ruin eBay, it's actually a useful business, I use it all the time", "context": "", "use_case": "buying and selling", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"}, {"id": 767946000, "item_id": 47996625, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996625", "by": "xtiansimon", "date": "2026-05-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I too actually rely on eBay", "excerpt": "> \u201dWhatever you do, don't break eBay. [\u2026] Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to.\u201d I too actually rely on eBay as an alternative to _every other online store_. It\u2019s curious you mention facebook and eBay together. I find FBMP completely unusable because of what their search feature returns\u2014garbage. It functions like their whole platform by trying to grab your attention with th", "context": "", "use_case": "Buying and selling used items", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"}, {"id": 767782176, "item_id": 47986386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986386", "by": "neilv", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship.", "excerpt": "Whatever you do, don't break eBay. I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship. We let CraigsList get broken, with seemingly much fewer sellers and buyers than it used to have. I tried Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to. But I won't install their app, and the notification emails only sometimes came through. (One buyer became very irate when", "context": "", "use_case": "buying and selling used items", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["buying and selling used items", "price research for used goods", "buying and selling", "online marketplace search", "finding and buying items"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006402", "title": "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985271", "title": "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711574", "title": "eBay Explicitly Bans AI \"Buy for Me\" Agents in User Agreement Update", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087306", "title": "iPhone Upgrade Program", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741527", "title": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543420", "title": "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 4}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 785450960, "item_id": 49090685, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090685", "by": "Marsymars", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ebay to set the price, but I sell locally", "excerpt": "Whenever I sell used good, I use ebay to set the price, but I sell locally, so there's no shipping/fees involved. Local prices around me always seem weirdly high - I sort ebay by cheapest price+shipping, match that, and that usually puts me cheaper than 90% of local listings and gets me plenty of interest. TBH I'm not clear on why anybody outside of rural areas is selling on ebay for non-niche things.", "context": "", "use_case": "price research for used goods", "switched_from": "", "story": "iPhone Upgrade Program"}, {"id": 768289104, "item_id": 48018069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018069", "by": "Scoundreller", "date": "2026-05-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "EBay does do search well. Exact phrase matches, negation, ORs", "excerpt": "EBay does do search well. Exact phrase matches, negation, ORs A search for this works exactly as you expect: (Lamborghini Urus, Audi RS Q8, and Volkswagen Touareg) \u201cstereo wiring harness\u201d -untested It\u2019s gotten a bit more fuzzy if you do something wrong. I used to have an alert for a mis-spelled brand name to snipe stuff :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"}, {"id": 768125792, "item_id": 48007862, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007862", "by": "idiotsecant", "date": "2026-05-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's actually a useful business, I use it all the time", "excerpt": "They better not ruin eBay, it's actually a useful business, I use it all the time", "context": "", "use_case": "buying and selling", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"}, {"id": 767946000, "item_id": 47996625, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996625", "by": "xtiansimon", "date": "2026-05-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I too actually rely on eBay", "excerpt": "> \u201dWhatever you do, don't break eBay. [\u2026] Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to.\u201d I too actually rely on eBay as an alternative to _every other online store_. It\u2019s curious you mention facebook and eBay together. I find FBMP completely unusable because of what their search feature returns\u2014garbage. It functions like their whole platform by trying to grab your attention with th", "context": "", "use_case": "Buying and selling used items", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"}, {"id": 767782176, "item_id": 47986386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986386", "by": "neilv", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship.", "excerpt": "Whatever you do, don't break eBay. I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship. We let CraigsList get broken, with seemingly much fewer sellers and buyers than it used to have. I tried Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to. But I won't install their app, and the notification emails only sometimes came through. (One buyer became very irate when", "context": "", "use_case": "buying and selling used items", "switched_from": "", "story": "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"}, {"id": 763939377, "item_id": 47746211, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746211", "by": "nevster", "date": "2026-04-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's an app to make searching eBay an actual joy.", "excerpt": "https://app.auctionsieve.com/ I've converted my 23 year old Java desktop app to a website. It's an app to make searching eBay an actual joy. Perform a search, then highlight text to trash or group that term. Then perform the search again tomorrow and it will hide all the stuff you've already seen.", "context": "", "use_case": "Online marketplace search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"}, {"id": 747590784, "item_id": 46724424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724424", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Ebay has filters to display sold listings", "excerpt": "Ebay has filters to display sold listings, so when you're looking to buy something, check out the closed auctions and see what they're going for. If the prices are similar, you might as well buy from fixed-price listings, but if auction prices are lower, you can save a lot by being patient. You can also save searches for a fixed-priced listing below a specified value, and enable alerts, so that if someone lists somet", "context": "", "use_case": "finding and buying items", "switched_from": "", "story": "eBay Explicitly Bans AI \"Buy for Me\" Agents in User Agreement Update"}, {"id": 747521680, "item_id": 46720105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720105", "by": "pessimizer", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> Bidding is open as long as there have been bids in the past 5 minutes. You also have to proportionally raise the bid increment, or you'll have people bidding $1 up at the end of every 5 minute period in order to exhaust and frustrate the person they're bidding against. Their opponent's only choices are 1) to mirror the $1 raises, which could go on for ages (then sleep and automation become issues), or 2) to make a ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "eBay Explicitly Bans AI \"Buy for Me\" Agents in User Agreement Update"}, {"id": 744750384, "item_id": 46546899, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546899", "by": "doublerabbit", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use eBay", "excerpt": "> Why do you need 100 apps? You don't. But a high percentage of the population will install apps for the sake they've been offered to install it. I use eBay, I get bombarded by eBay telling me to install their app for 10% off. I use Gmail for work, if I don't use their app, I have the search engine to tell me to use their app. Facebook is an app, WhatsApp is an app too. Bejeweled Deluxe is an another app. $Reality_TV", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"}]}