Been doing a bit of spying and just copied this from a feebay forum
My friend (who works for an online company) had a meeting with eBay executives last week who confirmed the business plan is to get rid of consumer sellers from eBay so that it is purely populated by businesses.
We've known this for ages, but it is nice to finally have some proof. They are trying to get the matrix of profit per employee higher and higher - it is already one of the highest around because of the tiny amounts of staff they have working for them!
eBay = a big bunch of crooks (ala the banks, etc!)