Editor's Review
Most shopping apps sell you one retailer's stock. eBay sells you other people's, which is why it stays the first place to look for a discontinued part, a used lens, a spare for an appliance nobody supports any more, or a collectible no shop would bother carrying. The Android app is the whole marketplace rather than a trimmed-down version of it.
Buying runs on the familiar mix of auctions, fixed-price listings and Best Offer, with bid alerts, watchlists and saved searches that notify you when a match finally appears. That last feature is the quiet reason people keep the app installed: rare items surface unpredictably, and a push notification beats checking a website every day. Barcode scanning, image search, order tracking and returns are all handled without leaving the app.
Selling is where it has improved most. Listing from a phone means photographing an item, letting the app propose a category and price from similar completed sales, and posting within a few minutes. Postage labels, buyer messages and payout status share the same screens, so a casual seller never needs a desktop at all.
The problems are marketplace problems rather than software ones. Item quality depends on who is selling, and while buyer protection is real, a dispute still costs time. Selling fees change and are easy to underestimate until the payout lands. Search results carry promoted listings, which pushes some genuine matches down the page, and categories prone to counterfeits demand a careful look at feedback history. An average of 4.55 across 100M+ installs reads about right: the software does its job, and your experience turns on the person at the other end.
Features
Auction bidding with alerts as a listing closes
Fixed-price purchases and Best Offer negotiation
Saved searches that notify you about new matching listings
Watchlist for following items before committing
Barcode and image search for pinning down a specific product
Mobile listing with category and price suggestions
Postage labels and order management for sellers
Order tracking, returns and buyer protection claims
Pros
Reaches used, rare and discontinued goods no retailer stocks
Saved search alerts do the waiting on your behalf
Listing from a phone is quick enough for a casual clear-out
Buyer protection covers items that never arrive or arrive wrong
Buying and selling run from a single account
Cons
Reliability varies by seller rather than by platform
Promoted listings take up room in search results
Seller fees are easy to underestimate before the payout arrives
