*sigh* being called in to work at 3:00 in the @#!@#! morning at least means that I get an early post in...
I truly can't get particularly riled up about eBay, one way or the other... I've won some 50-odd auctions over the years, and have generally gotten what I wanted at a price I was willing to pay. The idea of paying > $500 for something like a collectible would just never cross my mind, so BK's issues never really affected me. As for being sniped: well, I always had a top-bid price in mind, and almost never bothered raising it; if someone sniped me at the last minute, they did so by paying more than I was willing to. I was probably shilled once into paying more than I needed to for a computer, but again, I paid an amount that I thought was reasonable. That being said, eBay is certainly not as much fun for me as it used to be, but that pretty much describes the entire 'net...