The EBay of Bitcoin (soon to come)

I’ve been working on a quite large project for about a month and a half now. It’s an idea for a peer 2 peer e-commerce marketplace like eBay, but using Bitcoin as the payment method. Imagine Silk Road if it wasn’t illegal. So far I’ve just been designing the front end and doing a bit of basic backend work. I think within 6 months to 1 year it will be ready for launch. My real motive for this post is to find out how many of you would legitimately use a platform like this to sell or buy things. I’m aiming for it to have lower fees than EBay (they charge 10%), and an equal treatment of buyers and sellers (EBay tends to favor with the buyer almost no matter what, even if they are scamming the seller).

What do you guys think about this idea?

Edit: Thanks for all the insight, it certainly helps to see how the community perceives this. I’m currently working on implementing a newsletter for updates on the project but until I’m done with that, you can get on the list by sending an email with the subject of “Newsletter” to [email protected]

I will add you to the mailing list once I make it.