Thank you for your reply. I appologise for the delay in responding to you caused by my absence from the country. My wife has continued trading, but I personally have been away.
You misunderstand me entirely regarding the selective responses and I am very grateful to you for your valued input. My annoyance is directed at those who have nothing more to contribute that to say "Me too".
The first one or two such responses can be helpful in determining that you are not alone. Some such correspondents even return with a solution at some future date. But if you browse this or for that matter any forum, you will find hundreds of replies from people who can't help themselves but to say something even though it contributes nothing: "Me too", Didn't happen to me" etc etc. The most annoying type are those that are completely off target. Take the discussion about a problem with a Nokia phone. Surely you would agree that is is just painful to get a comment from someone who just says "Don't ask me. I don't have a Nokia. Wouldn't buy one!" But they are out there.
Now I accept that everybody has the right to make a comment and as I have said some of those "me too" comments can be useful" But after you have a few of them on the subject they just start to become annoying.
Now back to the discussion in hand.
As I have said. It makes no difference whether I am using Internet Explorer or Mozilla. I have adblockers installed for both (see description above). Further I have a modified "host" file that blocks a huge number of ad applying web sites (see http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/). But still the problem persists.
Now I appreciate that some people say it is not happening to them: I'm not surprised. They perhaps are not meeting the criteria for the event to occur. But try the following experiment.
Search eBay for "Carry all" in all catagories. No problem. The page will be filled with bags of various types. But I'm not interested in bags, I am interested in a piece of machinery that fits on the back of a tractor. It is called a "Carry all". Quite naturally, faced with page after page of hand luggage I try to refine my search. This time I search for "Carry all" (without the quotation marks) in the "Industrial" catagory which includes "Farming and Agriculture". This time it is different. This time I get a huge banner with eBay suggestions, all hand luggage, followed by the items in the correct catagory "Industrial" in which there is not a single piece of hand luggage. The annoying banner ad is not just annoying in that it limits my choice but it is irrelevant in that none of the items displayed belongs in the catagory in which I searched.
So, once again I appologise to you and to anyone else who was unintentionally offended by my remarks. But my intention in begining this discussion was to see if anyone else had experienced this issue and if by chance someong was able to tell me how to resolve it. While recognising that others may differ, I personally have little interest in answers that do not address the question with the facts provided.
