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You can't sell steem power so the goods would be sold directly with steem or steem dollars.s o the money would not be locked. It also would not have the fees eBay has, but yes it's a little ways off in the future, but those who use eBay and wish it had different features may be interested on weighing in as some larger players have seen this article and will most likely keep an eye on it.

That still doesn't help as I can already do that on ebay, open bazaar or some other service. It would take the money I would already be getting in cash or bitcoin and get it in steem then I would need to buy steem power to have the steem power. So no different than just buying steem power with bitcoin I buy with money from selling stuff now. That is making a very risky investment and I can't do that.

Understood. Hopefully it will be a more stable and profitable idea for you someday in the future or allow you to provide a service that has no shipping fees or something. If not it's great to have that feedback as I'm sure it will need to be addressed since eBay is a powerhouse and steemit would be a small fish