Yep Stan, the good ol' days are gone, I see very few of those kinds of listings now. I was thinking about that when I was digging out more 1N4007 diodes from my pack of 1,000 I bought years ago, still working my way through them. I think I paid less than $4 for the diodes at the time, less than half a cent each.
I did get a recent bargain on eBay, and when I looked again, I see that they made a mistake in the listing, for a change in my favor.