Woof is mostly right on Ebay: it was far more interesting, far more pleasurable, twelve to fifteen years ago.  Seems like half a lifetime.  I find myself, like Woof, looking with interest at the British names he mentions - but I've been doing that for a long while: ever since twigging that Russell Street had become as much about top-notch Brit stuff as much as anything else: Burberrys', for instance. 
American Ebay is mostly off the agenda for me now, just the very odd purchase: maybe a couple of times a year.  Some of their sellers have become a little crazed.