ebay on linux
 

I googled for suggestions for buying and selling on ebay using my linux box and most of the responses indicated that there are a lot of problems with linux and ebay and that ebay chooses not to support linux. Google did not offer me any forums or resources that would help define and address these problems. I have never registered with ebay on any OS so am not familiar with their site. However, I am somewhat familiar with HTML and JavaScript so, with the help of templates I see offered everywhere, I would be comfortable hosting the pictures and inserting code. Can anyone offer a site, forum, book or other resource that would help make it possible to use ebay with linux? TIA

If you are browsing the site and looking at items to buy or perhaps bidding, then you're fine. Use Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, whatever and you'll be fine. I browse ebay all the time on Linux. I don't trust Windows and especially IE, so I don't go there with either if I can help it. I usually use Opera because I can open several categories and look at many pages as I go, simply by middle-clicking the link to it. It then opens in the background for when I get to it. If a page sucks, i mouse-gesture it away (r, l, r). But that's me.

It is true that ebay doesn't support Linux apps, so an auction-watcher, perhaps used by a power seller, might not have support (but someone has already made one...). If you're like me and want to buy and sell on ebay, all you need is a browser with 128 bit or higher encryption capability, which means almost any GUI browser (and probably lynx-ssl as well)

I use ebay a lot with linux and firefox or mozilla or opera. Never had anytrouble so far. Buy and sell...