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EBay is always updating things, and we're always one step ahead. Without any of this information, a lot of you people would not be selling right now.

Anyways, it's been talked about a few times already. I don't think it really matters because if eBay makes it so hard to setup an eBay account, they in a sense kill their self. The harder they make it for people, the less money they'll make. It's in their best interest to keep people signing up and buying / selling stuff.

So elitist. How in the world do you know the person you are pm'ing isnt an Ebay employee, unless you ask for i.d and run a check?

If there was any material on these forums that cant be found on other suspension forums (Especially ones aimed at the UK, this is definatly not the biggest forum for UK users) then it would be worth a subscription. However its the same recycled info featured on other forums and newsgroups.

Some people think they "figured out what to do". When they didnt, as it was already known by many. Take for example using a cell up against a pay phone technique for the UK users, people were looking for this answer for a while, but I know that AT LEAST 4 different users on here knew about it before the thread finally appeared. And when it did, some were making out as if the poster was a genius for discovering it, and that it was only for this forums that we have the info.

Not taking nothing away from the forums, but its 95% trolls, 5% knowledgable users. 95% repeative questions, 5% useful information.

Make a forum JUST for users who have something to contribute (ebayhateluv, modee, avarshav, mantisic to name but a few) and then it would be worth paying for

and me :p my beyatch!

It would be pointless to make the forum private now...if that's the case we should have did that months ago

aspkin a suggestion: i like the idea of private forums but as others have said the having to pay to get in (for me at least) is one reason i can't join i wish i could but ebay has screwed me so bad that everytime i get caught up BAM start again. My suggestion, jog over to chris creamer's sports logos website Chris Creamer's Sports Logos Page - SportsLogos.Net. scroll down to the bottom right, what he does is tells the members what the bills are and they donate amounts (from $5 to $100) to help defer costs. Maybe instead of subscriptions just say "hey donate $5 every month to help and private is free!" or something like that. i would do that and i don't know if an ebay employee would do this all the time (but maybe they would). just a thought for you

You mean like deleting cookies, changing ip, buying a gift card? You can't be serious. Look at what has happened on ebay during the last year with feedback, dsr, shipping, raising fees, 21 day hold, etc., etc. None of this has anything to do with combating what we talk about here. It's arrogant to think they make sweeping policy changes in reaction to disgruntled NARU'd users who want to get back on. Ebay has changed the way they do business plain and simple and that means clamping down on sellers and hosing them. God only knows what's to come in 2009 and 2010. Good thing I'll be long gone before the eventual "crash."

You know, you could also have anyone who lives in an area where eBay has no offices go and send a picture of the area while holding something written on paper as proof instead of money.

jonas, what do you mean? I do not understand your post.

You know, if you live in a state or country where ebay has no offices, you could go to a city sign or some such and take a picture of it while holding up something in front of the camera written on it to verify who you are.

As for what mattcafc said, the forum has several thousand members and over 99% of them are all lurkers. So eBay may never have posted.