Seeing as how eBay is the largest outside shareholder in Craigslist I'm not sure that Craisglist is doing much damage to eBay. It'd be pretty easy to stop if it were.

It's not even TRYING to restore trust.

A simple test will prove it. Pick listings with a hundred different random listing violations and report them.

Yes, you'll get an autoresponder from ebay saying how importantly it treats violation reports but that's about all. In three days time, MOST of those violations will still be on the site -- and in a week, MOST of those sellers will relist new items showing the same violations.

Its clear from the violation report form itself how little interest ebay really has in removing violations -- because there's not even space on the violation form to say WHY the listing is wrong.

That suits ebay, because without the evidence it only needs to give the listing a five second glance and if it doesn't immediately see what's wrong it can let the listing stand.

And there's no appeals procedure, no random "you reported a violation, was it dealt with properly" follow up. It doesn't matter if the violation is cast-iron and reported every day of the week, the most prolific offenders are still allowed to get away with it.

Ebay isn't struggling to restore trust, it simply isn't even trying.

Good riddence to bad rubbish. ANYBODY could do a better job than our old Meg has. I'm sure the pasture she's going to will be very green, though.