Finally got my second Denon 3801 for my bedroom that is in mint condition with the 3801 remote for the total bargain price of $310 plus $35 shipping from a reliable seller on Ebay with excellent feedback. I figure I can sell the remote for an easy $60 as I don't need it with my Harmony LogiTech 676 Universal Remote & get rid of my JVC RX DV31SL receiver for another $100 or so. So it was a good day.

Alot of the people who bid on Ebay, I'm sorry to say, are not very smart.
The only way to win an Ebay auction in the first place is by bidding in the last 10 seconds. Unfortunately, most of these idiots, bid early on in an auction which just accomplishes one thing and one thing only, bidding up the price. They are literally throwing away money. If Ebay wanted to run a fairer auction, they would limit bids in the last 2 hours only to people who bid prior to that. Instead, unless you do not have access to a computer in the last few minutes of an auction, you have to be a complete idiot to make a bid until the final moment. These cretins do not seem to realize that. In my case I lucked out here, as 25 people bid stupidly early on and I just bid once in the final 10 seconds.

Ebay also encourages shill bidders to bid up a price as well. I would estimate that at least 80% of people with 0 to 2 feedback who make an initial bid early when there are no bids or just by "coincidence" signed onto Ebay that same day are shill bidders. These same people with 0 to 2 feedback also seem to make an early bid within 5 minutes of someone bidding on an item where there had been no bids before.

I mainly prefer to use either Amazon.com or an established online retailer that I find via Google searches and places like pricegrabber and epinions than to use Ebay because of the above (idiot bidders & shill bidders). When I do use Ebay it is usually to get something under a "Buy it Now" item (no bidding) or if its either a very hard to find item or if its a used item that I can get a good deal from from a seller with good feedback.