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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3278161, member: 27832&quot;]&quot;Along with other on-line sellers&quot; makes your point clearer, but also changes it a bit -- it&#039;s not eBay itself, but the general move toward on-line commerce, that surely <i>has</i> forced some storefronts to shut down. Others have added an online component, or moved entirely online.</p><p><br /></p><p>Locally, we lost a decades-old used book store, which was doing well enough online that they could no longer justify the expense of a storefront.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there are books that I could <i>never</i> find locally, and are now a quick search and click away on eBay or Amazon or some random but Internet-savvy book shop halfway across the country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same way with eBay. There&#039;s more trash there than any local store could ever hold, but more treasure as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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