The ATO has thousands of employees, so they certainly have capacity for people monitoring these fora. I live in Canberra and almost every second person I know, including relatives, works at the ATO.   Please don't call me a liar, thanks! 🙂

The question is still-what on earth would they achieve by monitoring an internet forum that is frequented by such a miniscule amount of ebayers-most of whom post under either buying ids or posting ids ???

Sorry,but that just sounds too ridiculous/far fetched for words IMO