Funny thing, my opinion is ebay is fed up with the forums, and the fact there are so many shite stirrers who never pay ebay fee's but love to put carp on everything, and screw the joint with fake id's, and self righteous auction bombings of supected crooks, and other mindless acts of massive ego's.
Of course, they love the shill bidding, so that will never go as long as there is breath in those making the dollars from it.
I reckon RT went because of the " Hysterical Rebellious " attitude of some members to everything ebay wants to do with " IT'S " business.
It was probably based on a business model I would subscribe to, and that is, " If you want to try and screw my business, I'll screw you and you can take a running jump ", and with that, the forums were restructured.
I think there will be a lot more happenings from ebay shortly, and I don't think members will like it too much.
I ponder where the connotation of protecting your own supposed business, allows others to think it's OK to try and screw someone else's business, because so far, most of the biggest bleaters have already stated they never use ebay anymore.
Donn Chip resurrected " Keep the bastards honest " The members screwed ebay, ebay runs a poor second to them.
Oh, and remember, it's just my opinion.
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