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I sell on ebay too, and wonder if any of the FReeper eBayers have comments on the new changes at eBay, especially checkout and the new search.

The ebay discussion boards are FULL of negative comments. I have not seen one positive comment, and I personally do not like either feature. Check out the Discuss New Features forum sometime.
They just changed the end of auction emails that they send sellers,so that the bidders email adress is no longer a dynamic link that you can click on to bring up a new email page....now you have to copy and paste....they make it more work for the seller to try and PUSH the use of their checkout service (which if it somehow catches on will probably have a small, per transaction fee, attached to it sometime in the future IMHO). For some reason, even though I state I do not use checkout, when a bidder does contact me through checkout, I get two identical emails separated by about a minute. Lots of the checkout generated emails come well after I have sent the bidder all the payment info.

After ebaying for 2 years, I get the feeling that the eBay administration is like the Clinton Administration or Lib Dems in general: They never admit anything they do or change is wrong, no matter how many people protest/complain. They are hardly responding to the flood of complaints on the discussion boards

eBay is still the big dog in online auctions, but they are getting a lot of sellers quite angry.

I HATE the checkout!! I am getting two and three requests per auction for the information. I do not use Billpoint or E-payments. I do use Paypal. Had my first fraudulant check return and found out that this user, who has been unregistered,had written over 200 bad checks. I prefer not accepting checks.

I thought I liked checkout at first - but now I am very frustrated with it.It's bad for sellers, but even worse for buyers - I've been trying to pay for a doll dress since Sunday.
All my auctions just ended - I can't believe I was such an idiot as to end them late on the night before Thanksgiving!