Made it one of my resolutions this year to clear out some clutter around the house. I thought I'd set up an Ebay account as a good way to do this. But honestly I think I'm done with it. Even if it goes smoothly if I'm only selling some bits for a couple of pounds by the time Ebay take 10% of the final bid and P&P, and then paypal charges, it's hardly worth the effort that goes into walking to the Post Office.
And there are so many cheeky fuckers on there I honestly can't be bothered anymore. I sold a couple of maternity dresses for 1p (yes, 1p - I was hoping if I started bidding low it might encourage more bidding, but it back-fired, hey hum) and the person who bought the dresses still felt the need to quibble about the £4 P&P, for two dresses that she bought for 1p each.
The latest incident that has taken the proverbial 
is I offered to sell an item for DH. It's a piece of sound-engineering equipment which cost nearly £1500 new, but he no longer needs it and so he has decided to sell it as it's large and heavy and is taking up a lot of space (obviously therefore being sold as a collection only item). Someone won the bidding for £100 (which was dirt cheap, so they got a bargain). However they haven't paid or responded to my messages about when they want to collect / how they want to pay for the item. I've opened an unpaid item case but from what I can gather all that will happen if the buyer doesn't pay is the buyer will get a ticking off and that's it. In what other auction in the world could you bid on an item and then get away with not paying if you are the winning bidder?
I think I'm just going to sell the rest of our clutter on the Facebook selling sites. At least if people muck you about on there you don't get charged listing fees for the privilege.