And it's not as though the reality gets concealed. There are forums elsewhere that are quite poisonous about the lack of sales here and almost accuse the site of being a scam. Whereas the truth seems to be that certain categories sell very well, e.g. ones where there are regular collectors of low value items like stamps and postcards. The returning visitors get to trust the site and buy, the sellers have low fees that make it possible to offer attractive prices. So it would be great to be able to point the detractors at examples.
It does seem to me that ebid and even ebay need to up their game these days, with rival methods of selling proliferating, fuelled by social media.