The nearly unlimited free listings has all but ruined eBay auctions in the antiques and vintage collectibles categories, the categories that made eBay. The sellers love it, but they don’t understand that it has driven away most of the buyers who have more money than they have free time. It has also hurt eBay’s bottom line because a lot of us are obsessive collectors, and we don’t list items for sale until our searches are finished. Having thousands of re-lists to wade through each week means that most of us never get around to selling on eBay because we can’t get our searching done. The same overpriced or uninteresting items get re-listed over and over and over. For hardcore collectors of unique or rare items it has become a nightmare. Constantly seeing the same unsalable items in our searches is driving us crazy. And it is killing auctions. It’s shocking how many auctions for unique antique items have been re-listed 5 or 10 or 50 times. It’s taken all of the fun out of searching eBay. This never happened when sellers had to pay for listings. If eBay wants to save its vintage collectibles and antiques markets, it needs to immediately address this problem. We need to be able to filter out re-listed items from our searches. EBay should allow us to set a site preference to filter out auctions that have been re-listed once, or twice, or three times. Forcing a buyer to see the same auction item show up in search results over one hundred times is only hurting eBay. EBay's move away from its roots, the used and collectible markets, has killed eBay. The new merchandise market is ultra-competitive. EBay had a great niche and they walked away from it by alienating both sellers and buyers. The used and vintage collectible markets dwarf new merchandise, as it is everything that was ever made! America is awash in vast quantities of used and collectible items. But right now the issue of being able to filter out re-listed auctions from search is the critical issue. It’s the problem that is ruining our eBay buying experience and preventing eBay from seeing the growth that one would expect for a site with so much potential.