Apart from the fact that eBay has introduced me to some hackers, intent on trying to steal £2000 from me, I will probably still use it. I've had various examples of good and bad customer service on eBay. Sometimes I've been guilty of providing a desperate service myself. If you're a blog-geek, you might be interested to read the following on here:

• When my purchases and sellings of Titanic went tit(anic)s up
• Selling a non-bogus non item
• Eventually posting a late eBay item

The current ongoing eBay-ism is the purchase of some hard disks for me to use as a data store for myself, and for selling to make a little money to mitigate the cost of the first one. I returned the faulty drive yesterday and just got an email informing me that I'll be receiving a replacement by courier. Wow. If the replacement comes tomorrow, then I'll be in clover. That would be good service.

My eBay dream is to find some sort of value-add where I could buy a few items, totalling under £100, do something with them to add enough value to make £10 surplus per item on resale. This would be a nice little earner. The problem is that I can't think of anything that meets those criteria and it's not worth doing volume for any other numbers. So, my eBay tycoonery will never grow beyond the occasional bit of crap-selling/economies of scale for mitigating the cost of a single item for myself.