Great replicating something that's a pain in the ass already.
Can Steemit auctions compete with Ebay? Well that's all up to the whales at Steemit to free up what gets seen on Steemit by leveling the playing field. Writing cute articles and posting funny pictures needs to be expanded into something dear I say prosperous while weeding out the scams. Steemit has its fair share of scams in its top posts. There needs to be freemarket of categories without being governed by fatcat whaling.
Currently you can save over $500 on my NOS Corvette auctions on ebay! Looks like the low ballers and Ebay will win out again!
http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextSelling&ssPageName=STRK%3AME%3ALNLK%3AMESEX