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The outlet stores are almost always "buy it now" so you don't have to fool with auctions. Some of the "retailers" are just dumping things like hanes or fruit of the loom, but others are actually the store. Jockey (t-shirts, unmentionables, clothing) is on there and bargains can be had. Target is also on there and I nabbed some king organic sheets there about a year ago for 28 dollars. TWENTY EIGHT! Just King sheets run 60 and organic is usually somewhere in the "Yeah, I'll call as soon as I win the lottery." I have those marked, but I know there are others because I run across them on searches.
The one thing I don't buy on ebay is fabric. I've tried, but the quality ranges from "good" to "THIS IS NOT COTTON, IS NOT RELATED TO COTTON AND HAS NEVER TOUCHED COTTON" despite labeling. One order was so far off (it was supposed to be hemp and was quite obviously bamboo or rayon) I actually sent it back even though my refund was around 5 dollars. Ebay has gotten MUCH better about returns. If you have to return something, many vendors now pay for return shipping (check policies before buying). There's some advantage or other for them within ebay to do so. I think I've only ever had to return 2 things there, but the last thing I returned for low quality/misrepresentation, the shipping was paid for both ways and the items was covered.
I like the walmart online shopping because you can return to store--even the mattresses we bought there. We asked about 5 different people to make certain, and the guy in the pickup area assured us we could because he had had the job of trying to repack one of the mattresses in those shrink wrapped bundles (which he said could NOT be done).
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