Buy-it-now is a very important missing option.
I don't think I've bid on a SINGLE item in eBay in 3 years or so, but have bought probably 100+ buy-it-now items in that time. Haha, wow - weird to think about it!
Bidding is too slow, annoying, and not worth my time. The prices almost always end up quite close to buy-it-now prices (and people reference those prices on when to stop... so they literally are almost the same) so I don't bid anymore, not surprised others here don't either.
The only thing I would bid on is a game, but for parts or anything else, buy-it-now only. Generally it seems that those listings are the majority these days anyways, I rarely see auctions anymore funny enough. eBay's changed with my tastes - woo-hoo!
If you list something on eBay list it as buy-it-now with make offer as it's basically the same thing and me and a bunch of people like me won't ignore your listing.
A lot of my reasoning besides bidding being SO boring is that the stuff I buy... I want and NEED it fast. Bidding on something that won't even leave the seller's house until 5 days later (plus however long it takes to get here ON TOP of that) is beyond a waste of time
It's funny to think about it, the bidding function is pretty much dead - this thread has been really eye-opening to what is going on, I've only done BIN for several years by personal preference, and almost all the ads I see are BIN. So for sellers and buyers it seems BIN is king even if we don't realize it. I didn't realize it at all despite it being so obvious
