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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I rather think they will not answer any questions....it is a done deal for now.  The current changes will be coming in from as early as next week.

Our only hope is to keep on at ebay not to make the changes that they have proposed for the future.

At the moment we are not getting the .com format, but we will if we don't make representations to ebay.

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lyndal, the situation here with eBay apparently not taking any notice of either the US members or ourselves who are both fully aware of the pitfalls that are going to happen, reminds me of something I experienced when I was working for Telstra.

To be brief, I was a winch operator at the time (hauling large cables into underground ducts) and we had an "engineer" fresh out of university who demanded that we haul a cable his way and not the way that worked in the field. As a result we snapped the hauling eye completely of the cable in between manholes. The resulting mess took the whole team 3 days to fix, when the job itself would have only taken a couple of hours had he listened to the people that knew how to do the job.

eBay's like that "engineer", they don't want to hear or take advice from those that know the boards. 

I'm certainly not adverse to change, but to radically change something that really only needs some fine tuning is an unbelievable step by (presumably) intelligent employees of eBay. Or have they employed a team of "consultants" to come up with a better way of doing things? ( and now have to implement their ideas to justify the expense of that proposal...................)