There has been a massive dumbing-down of the IQ levels of eBay sellers in the last 10 years. Nobody knows how to price things anymore, everyone sees "rare and valuable" and will price it to $200+
Also nobody wants to go to work at a job or contribute anymore, so they look at flipping items as a way to live off their income. This is why so many of them will fight to the death over an object, because if they dont sell that $40 thing for $200 they get their power shut off, or lose their rent.
There has been many times that someone will join this website, ask a bunch of questions, and when someone says that is a rare or valuable machine, they disappear, and you see that machine on eBay for $2,000 with all the information they were told listed in the description.