Flash your One S to CyanogenMod and get rid of the awful bloatware HTC forces upon its customers, much like Samsung and their overlayed crap UI.
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
Pretty much stock Android (Mod9 is 4.0.4) so very lean and fast.
Problem solved.
As for eBay... what you experienced appears normal for such a shameful site to be honest... I gave up looking on there a long time ago.