I am now suffering from RSI form all the listings I have had to change separately as SMP cannot change from free p&p in bulk or change listing duration.
AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

That said, my first ever laptop was a second hand ex-corporate one with (a 35MHz Pentium, a smaller hard drive than most computers have for RAM these days and German QWERTZ keycaps but set for a UK keyboard in Control Panel. It certainly taught me to touch type!!!

As a seller I am slowly but surely getting to grips with it. It took my 7 days to come up with a listing strategy that seems to be coming to its frootion now. I believe that with this new search, sellers need to be on the ball. I know us sellers are probably selling from a number of venues, but we need to keep in mind that eBay dont care about this, they expect us to concentrate and put our time into eBay and coming up with strategies. I cant blame for this, as they are a business too and it works both ways. they want to clean the site up, and return the most popluar items. seems to be working for me at moment, but time will tell!!!

# 14 – The company I used to work for had several keyboards that had @ + ” reversed. I never realised that was the reason why, but then we were in the UK and the company had no American connections. But they drove me mad for the opposite reason. I was forever typing speech quotes with @ at each end!

You think that is bad? I worked for a company that forced me to use the Japanese version of Vista (when I was new to Vista) with an American keyboard. I learned that “[” = “@” and pretty much everything else had to done by holding ALT and typing the ASCII code for that character. For instance they use the Yen symbol for what we do with the backslash. Typing backslash gives you a backslash (which does nothing). But if you input the ASCII code for backslash you get the Yen symbol.

Wish I could understand all that stuff about Best Match and searches on eBay.
If eBay is not careful it will drown a lot of entheusiastic sellers in technical complexities to the detriment of the ‘selling experience’
We hear loads about the ‘buying experience’ but stuff is only on ebay to be enjoyed if a positive ‘selling experience’ exists.
Why cant ebay stop messing about with everything and allow sellers to catch up?
I am no idiot having made a lot of money out of selling things over many years.
However I feel that there are too many people in eBay who are trying to excersise their intellectual muscles on fixing stuff that doesn”t need fixing.
Give respect to sellers!!
We know what we are up to and we fully realise that it need to be good for eBay.

the chinese not being able to list antiques/reproduction, on ebay would make not a jot of difference

I was not aware of this. It’s exactly the sort of (ever so slightly) trivial fact I want to see more on Tamebay. ;o)