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One of the big problems I would have with checkout (if I used it) would be with shipping. I sell all sorts of thingsthat weigh from a few ounces in weight, to over 50 pounds, and like to give bidders a few shipping options (like do they want it fast, or can they wait a bit, and I'll let them choose Postal or UPS rates). Checkout makes no provision for that. A number of big sellers on the DNF Forum have alos had big problems with the online pay part of checkout.

I think they (ebay) paid a lot of money to a euro firm for the new search technology, that no one seems to like. They claim to have beta tested it on 100,000 ebay users but no one on any of the discussion boards was part of the test group and no I have heard from knows of anyone who was in that group. Many doubt that they beta tested it at all.

Why do they pull this stuff right before the holiday shopping period? None of the changes thay have made since I started was needed IMHO..

A few months ago when they added all the picture hosting code to the sell page, a lot of people (me included) could not get the Sell page to load without a screen freeze or a crash, even after changing our browser settings to ebay specs. I had to use an old, old, sell page, that another user has stored on an off ebay website to load auctions for a few weeks.

ebay eventually fixed their code and servers so I (and many, many others) could use the current sell page again, but they didn't tell anyone when it was fixed, or admit their screw up. A DNF regular is a long time programmer and systems analyst and he watched as they kept changing the code to try and fix the problem over a month, and he kept me a few others current with their attempts at a fix. The thing is, it worked fine before they went and screwed it up, but they would not go back to the progam that worked (well the new page tries to force the iPix picture hosting down your throat, as ebay owns it and will make money off of it)....another case of them absolutely refusing to admit they are ever wrong about anything.