> ”Whatever you do, don't break eBay. […] Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to.”

I too actually rely on eBay as an alternative to _every other online store_.

It’s curious you mention facebook and eBay together. I find FBMP completely unusable because of what their search feature returns—garbage. It functions like their whole platform by trying to grab your attention with things it thinks you might want (how else to interpret unrelated results?) but didn’t ask for.

Despite eBay hobbling their search feature by removing Boolean operators, I find the two platforms couldn’t be more different.