Is eBay getting more and more crooked or am I just more skeptical?

It is not e-Bay it's the greedy unscrupulous people (not all) who abuse it.

We have a Boeing surplus warehouse in Kent,where they sell everything from drill bits to old computers. There is a certain small group who will run in there at first opening, every day, to grab the better new stuff so they can run home & put it up for auction. Fights have broken out over some items. Also, there has been an increase in watching over employees at "thrift" shops to prevent them from culling out the "good stuff" and selling it on e-Bay.