I know a bit about Internet marketing, but for the life of me I can’t see how Craigslist makes money other than its fees for job postings (which may very well be its main target audience) but they manage somehow, and I am thankful.

Thanks to their fee-less-ness, I skipped over eBay Motors to sell my Toyota Tacoma last year. I paid zero dollars to list it, and eBay and PayPal got zero fees from the sale. And it took 29 days for it to finally sell for the exact price I wanted it to sell for. And it sold locally.

Likewise, my wife and I desperately needed a kitchen table for our house. After searching the local furniture stores (and eBay) and coming up with styles we didn’t like or prices we could not afford, I searched Craigslist and found a round table made in Italy brought over to the States by a man in the Air Force. For $120 we got a great table that we love, and four chairs (that I can see us replacing in a year or so). Shipping — zero dollars.

eBay sellers who make a career out of eBay will tell me, “If you don’t like returns and refunds, you need to stop selling used items.” Begging your pardon Mr./Ms. Power Seller, 23,953 Feedback (with only 98% positive), but eBay offers the option to sell any item used. If I sell a used item that can (and probably will at some point) break or not work “like new” anymore, I don’t feel that I should be forced to offer a warranty or refund just because the eBay market is now flooded with sellers who sell brand new items that cost more than retail price and who charge at least 25% more to ship it than the actual shipping cost.

For those of you like me who have used and loved eBay for almost ten years, and are now are getting fed up with their practices and prices, look no further than Craigslist. And do it now before eBay buys it and starts charging you to post photos and takes a cut of each sale.

Knowing that eBay and PayPal won't be getting their greedy little hands on as much of my money as they used to: Priceless.