This Guides & Reviews section is being abused by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons, so I thought: what the heck, I'll put my two penn'orth in as well. Firstly, how many people out there think that this is where you leave feedback after completing or failing to complete a transaction? As one looks through the reviews, one comes across endless comments to do with what a lousy transaction it was, or it was OK but I would have preferred a different colour, and so on and so on. Yet these people are hardly idiots, you say, just a little careless or misguided. True enough.

But fear not. Genuine idiots are out there making merry even as we others go about our daily eBay activities. One day when I logged onto the Reviews section, I noticed that all of a sudden I had a single negative vote placed on every Review that I had written and posted to date. Curious, I thought. How could that be. Now, if some clown has not gone diligently through the entire list of my reviews up to that time and placed a negative vote (on all sorts of unrelated material, and with not a single review missed), I'd very much like to know who has! You figure it out. Unless eBay's system suddenly started handing out votes randomly to all and sundry. But I think not. I think there are some very strange folks out there and you probably think I'm a little odd, taking the time to write up this so-called "guide" but I can't help it. Have to get it out of the system somehow! So there you are. Enjoy your eBay day.