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Totally, the original founder was literally in tears as he left

They ruined the culture and ecosystem, it's just ebay/amazon/aliexpress now

It's important to remember this the next time you're excited for a new tech company.

Remember it about anything you’re excited by. The pursuit of the almighty dollar dilutes and ruins everything over time.

Its human nature.

There are a few exceptions. Some are covered in the book "small giants". It's great.

Ebay itself has gotten notably worse with the rise of the drop ship, arbitrage, get rich quick idiots.

Now I actively avoid sellers with too many sales and never buy anything that looks like it has a stock image for the listing.

I get extra annoyed when I buy something on eBay and the "seller" just ordered the thing from Amazon and had them ship it to me.

I don't buy things from Amazon for a reason, and it's incredibly annoying to have been forced to do business with them anyway, even indirectly.

Well at least you are trying.