"No one deserves a better price than anyone else as for my vision that would be favoritism. There is already enough prejudice where one group gets a better deal and already enough dishonesty in business practices. There is no need for selling one person an item for one price then selling another person the same item for a different price."
What you are referring to as Favoritism in a business sense is not unethical. It is smart marketing. (What do you consider rewards to be?) In retailing, preferred customers often receive perks like discounts, bonus buck programs, coupons, early-bird sales, free shipping, etc. The list is long. None of this is dishonest.
"There is no longer privacy in doing a search your info is given to any seller that might benefit from giving you an offer. eBay thinks this promotes business and helps promote sales."
It is too late now. This is the nature of doing business online-- the genie is out of the bottle for good. And it is not just eBay. It is over the entire internet. To avoid some loss of personal privacy, one may patronize brick and mortar businesses and stay off-line. However, wherever you shop, there will be a record of your preferences, and savvy marketers will make use of that knowledge. As for keeping an online business, there are a few methods for enhanced privacy, but as an e-commerce seller, there must be some transparency in order to conduct a successful enterprise. Total privacy is gone for good.
And having knowledge of one's customers does create, and enhance, salesmanship and sales.
"eBay is only interested in commission and privacy has gone out the window along with the idea that everyone should get the same price."
Pardon me for contradicting you--the above statement is not accurate. Over time, eBay has changed things in order to protect buyer privacy, and in doing so, limited access to information that sellers found helpful. (As a regular poster in these forums, it also made it harder to help folks, quite frankly). Usernames are hidden from other members' view. If you notice, all customer IDs are withheld from casual observation in things like feedback, replaced with scrambled letters. Only the seller of record has full disclosure on individual sales. The same is done with bidders' identities. They are concealed in auctions as well, and only the seller running the auction will have knowledge of who they are. This did not use to be the case. Buyer privacy is considered important by eBay.
The concept "one price for all" may be helpful in financial economic theory, but as resellers on eBay, with the huge variation of global markets, it is not a realistic practice.
"...eBay has done little to protect consumers from being gouged, cheated and scammed."
Again, this is not an accurate statement. Much was done during the pandemic to eradicate gouging from the platform. Gouging has a specific definition. It is the overpricing of commodity goods during times of national emergency. If you are instead, simply lamenting high prices on items you want to buy, you are free to pass on a seller with prices above your desired level. Any seller is free to set any price he so chooses in a free market society. To do differently could be argued as price-fixing, which is as illegal as price gouging. As for cheating and scamming, eBay is complying with the new INFORM Consumers Act, recently enacted into law. Its purpose is to limit criminal conduct on online venues, especially for counterfeit selling, the fencing of stolen goods, and money laundering. You have only to spend a little time here to discover the extent of eBay's efforts to erase the nefarious element from the site.
"Search engines can only search words."
No, its scope is wider. Search engines can also search visual content as well, like photographs. See link below:
"A search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web searches (Internet searches), which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. Therefore, search engines are used to search documents, videos and images."
https://testbook.com/question-answer/search-engines-are-used-to-search-________-type-of--5ff560f2520....
"...my wife has a genuine Coach pocketbook she did a Google lens search and found a new one for $46 which just is not possible knowing it cost $300 ! "
I have sold fashion on eBay for the last 15 years, and depending on how I acquire the item (have a number of Coach products I inherited), I may well sell a $300 item for under $50. That is not illegal or unethical. It depends on many factors, including desirability and time allotted to sell it in. My customers are from all over the world and have faith in my listings. eBay is not all doom and gloom.
And I wouldn't put down flea market buyers and sellers. Some of my favorite resell offerings came from Portobello Road, Saint Ouen, or the Grand Bazaar. There is huge variety and wonderful finds. I can think of worse things to call eBay.
