To countessalmirena:

Thank you for the list of pracmatic yet slightly ironic suggestions.

Ironically, I have lost a previous account due to incomprehensible eBay policies. When I say that, I am talking about a real world scenario where a former acount that had ultimately high ratings was banned due to a breach of a law in the US that I was never allowed to have the details of. ie. I was never endowed with the details of how my account was stopped up at the time, forcing me to start all over again. losing all of my stats. I appealed a few years later, again being stone walled, never finding out what had been breached. Yet I never was aware of doing anythign wrong.

So much for the "horrendous mistakes" that we might encounter, being billions of rules in the read day bay day.

Well I have chosen to endure to see if a line of optimistm  remains open.

In the meantime, regarding your quote "You can certainly try contacting eBay with your suggestion/request."

That is what I did, and that is why I posted the issue here.

I do hope the arguing stops and people can focus on the problems and at least take a grown up critical view instead of an overly optimistic utopian outlook.

In another 10-15years one of two things will be certain. I'm a whinger, or the rest of the people responding to date are just not aware of the closing jaws on the selling landscape of the internet.

By the way, I hav elived through the opening scenes of the internet and its tools, and know what it was before. it's not up to me to force everyone to see that it is slowly turning coorporatised, but I am still entitled to share my experience and try to alert people that their priveleges are constantly being narrowed, with few rewards in return. Instead of repair and improvement to the environments, you see upgrades fixed to snatch away more of the freedom of posting at will, and at the same time charge you more for your efforts to help your own economy.

hmmm. I'll be phased out in time, and so will you all, but the question is, will people ever learn from the outspoken and honest approach of someone seeing the black and white or will they just be breathless eventually blanking out from the stranglehold of a pythin-like system.

Don't call me an alarmist, just watch what happens. 😉