I guess the experience of Ebay in the US is completely different from the experience of Ebay outside the US.
As for alternatives to Amazon, in my country there's bol.com. Shopping local is also a good idea. Don't buy groceries at amazon, but instead in grocery stores.
Then there are thrift stores. It's better to thrift than buy new.
Free shipping? On eBay? Are you high? Not even local listings have free shipping on that platform. Often they're even abused to make the listing seem really cheap only to find out that they offset that cheapness by very steep shipping costs.Also their international shipping hub that they make you use has so little care for your purchases that there have been many reports of stuff being broken in that warehouse, despite careful wrapping around the packaging.Meaning the seller gets screwed out of the money from the sale (because the buyer wants their money back), and the buyer gets screwed out of the product.
While also being bombarded by ads by Amazon on their own website, so they even profit off of you. Or did you think those "Promoted" items in the search listings didn't bring money into Bezos' coffers?
I guess the experience of Ebay in the US is completely different from the experience of Ebay outside the US.
As for alternatives to Amazon, in my country there's bol.com. Shopping local is also a good idea. Don't buy groceries at amazon, but instead in grocery stores.
Then there are thrift stores. It's better to thrift than buy new.