You kept a diary? Wow, that's desperate!!! 😄 There was a time where they were coming out every fortnight, you must have missed those ones. It was that way in the second half of last year for a few months.

Well your diary's out of whack for stores

Stores haven't had any for about 10 weeks

If ebay only give promotional free listings every 8 weeks or longer, i will have to take a lot of things off ebay and list in swapmeet.

It's ebay's loss. You would think they would want to attract sellers just as much as buyers, because without both - ebay doesn't  exist.

They have plenty of sellers. They just don't realise the sellers they want are not buyers. And the sellers they don't want tend to also be buyers.

Donohoe has no idea. Admittedly when the split comes he will be going to Paypal (at a lower level), but he will leave eBay with a massive payout and the group debt of $7.5 billion. The new CEO is one of his current minions, so I doubt much will materially change. And remember eBay will have a $7.5 billion debt to service, so the first $30 mill (at least) revenue after normal costs will be going to the bank.