I'm not dancing either! Any laughter is just gallows humour, if I didn't laugh I'd cry. I'd love Ebay to find it's direction again too, the sad thing is that I really believe it's got massive potential, even now, but it's a bit Titanic like the way the 'commanding officers' believe they can keep ploughing on the same way regardless of the growing number of icebergs!

Ebay is not glamorous, it never was, but that doesn't mean it can't be profitable. Flea markets aren't glamorous, nor are junk yards, or car boot sales, but plenty of people make a (sometimes very good) living out of them and lots of us love poking around them for bargains. If I wanted to be selling High St. fashion I'd be managing a High St. store, not everyone wants that, in fact I'd say the majority don't want that, but there's room for both, and Ebay (as it used to be) filled a niche very nicely - the proof of that is how successful it became. That same customer base is still out there... they just moved away from Ebay in a lot of cases because they don't like what's been done to the site, they could still be tempted back (very quickly), by a few relatively minor changes. It's crazy, honestly it is, but it's good that it's finally getting noticed outside of Ebay and written about - even if the authors don't always get things right.