old == worthless.

I suppose I am thinking "success" on a different way. Sure, anyone that has been hanging around Ebay long enough has managed to get a super deal, like an AS/400 for a buck, but those occurrences are pretty much luck and/or timing. What I am thinking about is winning an Ebay auction - maybe for a buck, maybe for something over market value, it does not matter - and getting something extra from the auction, or really great service. For example, once I won a World War 2 era radar piece for a fair price, and to my surprise, packed along with it was new-in-box ARC-5 receiver (a nice, quite desirable unit from that era). The seller packed it along as a bonus. No funny business, no shipping errors - just a bonus. That is the kind of success that almost ever gets reported, and never gets exaggerated. But, as usual, in our brains the bad things in this world tend to crowd out the good things.