Why I’m Stepping Back from eBay
I am a longtime eBayer. I started buying on eBay in about 2000 (can’t find anything in my account history to tell me exactly when, but I know it was around then). I started selling a couple years later, at first under another account, and then under my own name, which I later changed to reflect my Against Doll Odds branding. I’ve been with eBay through a multitude of changes, but 2026 is the year I’ve decided to walk away. I haven’t been buying much in the past year since my husband was unemployed, but I started seeing complaints from other collectors in the community about eBay’s AI-altered photos. It made me hesitant to sell anything on their platform, even when we needed the money. And why feed my listings into their AI, when I can post in one of the Facebook groups instead — and reach a targeted audience of trusted buyers? Look, geniuses. If you allow sellers to alter photos with AI — or if you even kind of encourage it as a feature of your ...