It's not my buying experience that was bad. In fact, buying on eBay is quite a seamless experience for me. Its selling on eBay that has become perilous. Buyers tend to purchase something, and then return their old product. eBay seems to always side with the buyer, and you end up losing your item. In fact, if the buyer files a claim with their credit card company, they don't even have to return the item. I lost over $1,000 that way and decided to stop selling on eBay, at least momentarily. Unfortunately, whereas eBay used to be relatively free of buyers will ill motives, it seems that scammers those buyers are slowly becoming more and more prevalent. However, I suppose much of that can be attributed to the economy and the fact that more people are turning to illegal ways of "saving" money.
edit: neither am I saying that eBays buyer protection needs to be eradicated. I just believe that eBay should put more investigation into their claim reviews before seemingly automatically siding with the buyer.