QUOTE (poliss @ 19 Feb 2008, 19:13)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Sellers will no longer be able to leave negs, some items are paypal only, reduced worldwide visibility amongst other things.
Can't say I've noticed fewer listings.
Typical signs of a monopoly developing here, after all they own paypal, and reducing worldwide visibility will benefit them or the buyers or the seller how? What we need is some more competition, and presumably people will stop using ebay if there is no money to be made from it and set up alternative auction sites etc. Although some already exist they're very small in comparison and look rather 'flimsy' in the trustworthyness department to me; not that ebay isn't turning into another big fat ugly microsoft! (and who trusts microsoft apart from the insane?!)
Google to the rescue? (Oh, hang on, the google giant squid already has so many fingers in so many pies that if they got involved it could only make it worse...) So no. Hmm, looks like people will just put up with it...