What gives me hope in this day & age is the fact that Internet Selling/Buying can only GET BIGGER ........ so ebay has had the market to itself all these years, but now that most of the world accepts this IS the new shopping experience more & more 'ebay's' will open & then they will regret all the lack of loyalty they have displayed toward the very people who were responsible for establishing their name as a household word......we will all dump them for a more loyal auction site.

No worries suitcase, I totally agree & this whole shebang, is a bit of a grieving process for us to go through. The ship jumpers, such as myself that is.

On the other hand it's terribly exciting and inspiring to be moving on finally. As you put it so well, the internet is THE future of shopping & ebay is actually becoming a bit old fashioned, if you get my drift.

In the last 12 months, I've noticed incredible changes & ease of access to great software, marketing tools, useful information from geeks to lame ducks such as myself...access to html & new sites popping up offering artists, artisans etc specific website software & hosting for ecommerce.

Moving at a very fast pace. Ebay is going it's own funny old way & those who cut their online baby teeth here, will succeed elsewhere...so thanks ebay 🙂 it's been fun & it's been grand selling things here, I have now not to treat customers, how to be professional, gleaned tons of information etc...