The more I look at it the more I hate it. It has kind of been taken over by companies that all they do is spam their services or products. It is really hard to find the 1 on 1 seller that you would have found 5 years ago there. Nearly all the prices there are retail these days, unless you can wade through all the advertisements to the used stuff. I still give it a 8/10 though just because you can find some pretty unique things there.
yeah ebay is a great site, and there are certainly many good deals to be had on there which you wouldnt find without it.