The new phone verification question

[alphaversa]

Any thoughts on this? Does the new phone verification program actually help in the long run? I mean, I verified the phone number on a 4 month old account. I have 1,300 auction items up right now. The opening bid is under $10 on each item. I know that I would often receive "abusing ebay" emails in the past when I posted even 100 auctions on these accounts. Any thoughts on this?

[aspkin]

It'll help against fraud, and maybe if eBay has changed other things with this, it could help eBay trust you more. It's too early to tell now, but overall it's a good thing I think. A bit of a pain, but good still.