(This ain't "news" to most of you guys, but it was news to me since, though I had bought a few items on Ebay over the last decade, I had never sold anything
Just 15-20 years ago, all you had was newspaper classifieds & a few specific magazines if you wanted to resell car/truck parts (let me know if I missed other resale options). And the breadth of the exposure of your parts to potential buyers was always limited. So, the prices you could get were always limited.
I had to resell a couple of Jeep parts (TB Spacer and a well-used Soft top) with EBay, recently, and I was knocked out by the fact that you could readily get frigging 50 cents on the dollar for items that were 2-3 years old and process the transaction for little effort -- other than mailing the item. Frankly, 15-20 years ago, you might as well just have thrown those items away because cost-effective resale, especially returning 50 cents on the dollar, was just impossible.
When you figure that the more serious Jeep CJ, YJ, TJ, KJ and CJ-era-variation owners (JK, who knows) upgrade their vehicles probably more than owners of any other vehicle made, you see where EBay is definitely the friend of the Jeep owner. A Jeep's old parts come off and need to be sold somewhere, right? Anyway, from a financial perspective (and, if you are good with your hands so you are not blowing huge money on "Labor"), you can, nowadays, actually control some of the cost of upgrading your Jeep by reselling your old parts on Ebay.
(Ok, you guys are going, "no sh#$ Franklin, I've been selling my Jeep parts on Ebay for the last 10 years... what, you been under a rock since Bill Clinton got re-elected? :roll:
