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Well I'm done for...they'll know about my buying "loose" (as opposed to mint in package) Star Wars action figures.

Me too. I like those old IBM "clickety-clack" keyboards. They don't make them anymore, so eBay is where I go to get them.

This is definitely a "pick your battles" moment for me, and after carefully considering it, I've decided that I don't care if they know about my keyboards. Nor do I think they have time to worry about my keyboards. There is in fact great privacy in being one database record among 30 million.

People who worry about this stuff should shop in person and pay cash. Frankly, I want eBay to be out there announcing that they are law enforcement's right arm, because if they don't, eBay will turn into a nest of thieves offering items that will never ship, that won't be as advertised, and so on. That will wreck the whole thing. It's better that they are loud and scary about their cooperation with the cops.

All life is tradeoffs. On eBay, I worry more about thieves than I do about government agents finding out that I bought Office 2000 at a great price after Office XP came out.

"I like those old IBM "clickety-clack" keyboards. They don't make them anymore, so eBay is where I go to get them."

Oh yesssss...

I loved the feel, and everyone knows God intended the function keys to be on the left side of the keyboard.

All of a sudden IBM forgot everything it had learned about ergonomics. For a while you could buy Northgate keyboards, which (IMHO) were the very finest ever made. Alas.

--Boris

All life is tradeoffs. On eBay, I worry more about thieves than I do about government agents finding out that I bought Office 2000 at a great price after Office XP came out.

LOL -- I feel the same way. There's no mention in the article about why E-Bay retains all the sales info -- so they can keep profiles on sellers or buyers, accessible to both. I check out sellers' profiles before I buy, and I appreciate the fact that they keep my profile on file, though it may be quite a few months between purchases.