"The site's issues have been self created by a CEO who grossly disregards the essential fundamentals that enabled eBay to become the one time online sales leader."

Well.... that's totally it in a nutshell!

The scales have been grossly tipped into the favour of the buyer (afterall the customer is always right, even when the customer is sometimes simply an a$$hole.)

They bought out the competition, so there's really no other viable platform on which to sell successfully in any kind of volume.

They continue to mess with what's not broken to begin with.

Thank you for the share!  At least after reading that, I feel that my feelings about the status quo have been validated.