Just looking for an item today and get to the auction and directly under the Seller Information is a bright flashing ad

CONGRATULATIONS THIS IS NOT A JOKE!  YOU ARE THE 100,000TH VISITOR!   CLICK HERE

Not exactly the luckiest person around so I doubt that I was the 100,000 visitor.  Surely this is false advertising, and probably illegal, if not should be.  The link takes you to a competition that you need to ring to subscribe and are then charged $5/msg received from them, 3 msgs/week +$5 sign up. And if you get enough points you can win an Apple prize.  If you actually got lucky pretty sure you would find the prize really was an Apple ( the fruit) rather than Apple the computer.  And the flashing ad is just awful and hurts the eyes, sure way to drive potential customers away from your auction if not cause a seizure.

Ebay are all over sellers for all sorts of minor infringements, duplicate items, etc  not forgetting Keyword spamming,  the list goes on, but they allow something like this in their AdChoices.

You are the 100,000th visitor of this thread.  Click here ]:) to redeem your prize.  I also have a $100,000,000 in a trust account I need moving o/s if anyboby is interested giving me the details of their bank account details and pw.