these are mainly new items....if you knew how a business worked, you would understand.

ebay is not a store that sell things. ebay is just a collection of sellers selling things. so each individual is responcible for the sale.

when you run a store, you have expenses, such as rent, salespeople salary, merchandise....yada yada yada. these expenses are covered by you when you pay for an item. they mark up the price and the difference pays for the expenses.

at ebay, people dont pay rent for a store, some of the sellers are just middle men, and they dont have to pay sales people salaries. so the sellers dont have to markup the price as much, therefore attracting more buyers.

im just talking about the people who make a living selling on ebay, and the people selling their household unwants.

of course there are also downsides to shopping on ebay, such as warrent, b-stock, referbs.....yada yada yada.