The reputation of Ebay only stands to improve, if sellers and private sellers-system-vendors, who trade in the coin of buyers' personal information, not just their money, are scrutinized by Ebay, cleaned up, and their operations made transparent to buyers. Maybe certain sellers should be "assisted" by Ebay to take their business elsewhere, or perhaps be shunted to a parallel "wild-side Ebay for haxx0rs" where anything goes, if that's what some sellers really demand, and they can continue using their sketchy fourth-party "selling tools" there. As for me, I would prefer to stick to the "nice Ebay" and never leave the premises.
Buyers at Ebay today are no longer sure of what certain sellers - especially those who use fourth-party tool-systems -- are really "selling," and whom they are selling it to. Buyers would do well to reconsider entering their personal information into untrusted web sites that have surrounded Ebay and its buyers. This reminds me of the time that I walked out of the Atlantic City casinos in the Boardwalk area, and decided to try to cross town by foot to get to the other cluster of casinos in the Marina area with my buddy. It turned out we were naive. Let me just say, after hearing what some sellers hanging out of windows and standing on corners offered to passers by, you couldn't even force me to walk that way again. I would just say no.
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