And making a website that doesn’t suck shouldn’t be hard either… the eBay corporate culture is really bad, most blame the Meg Whitman era for that. Sometimes companies get so bad that even very simple things become insurmountable. Auction items have a few extra dimensions of complexity over normal search as the value changes quite dramatically over time and mostly at the last minute so it’s quite time sensitive. I know people who work there, they’ve checked out and are just collecting a paycheck and I don’t blame them.