The regular responders have been asking for years to have old threads locked.  They are still available to read but cannot be added to.

As usual, the requests fall on deaf ears.

It really is a waste of time to be reading a thread and find it is up to 5 years old.   In ebayland, 5 months is a lifetime let alone 5 years.

For some reason there seems to be more old threads surfacing at the moment than there was in the past.