What this shows is if you are going to try and break the law by selling pirated DVDs, eBay is probably not the place to do it because you are probably going to get caught and we'll help catch you.
It's not one versus the other. A lot of sellers use both. You might sell an item that's in demand at auction and the kinds of things that might not sell right away as a fixed-price listing.
It is not good for a buyer or a seller because it clutters the marketplace. Some amount of pricing ensures a higher quality supply.
It is not good for a buyer or a seller because it clutters the marketplace,
What we can do is make it against policy for a seller to encourage certain types of unsafe payments by putting them in their listing pages. Regarding cash, we allow sellers to say they accept COD and cash for in-person transactions , but not via mail.
We're always open to having more discussions about that. But until a law is passed saying you can't sell these things, we're not going to stop them from being sold on the site.