Hypocrisy
When I left a negative feedback for fast(slow)memoryman, I made the mistake of including a link to this website. He notified eBay, who deleted my feedback post haste, never giving me a chance to correct the offending portion or reiterate my dissatisfaction.
Of course, no negative feedback goes unpunished by fastmemoryboy: he left SCREAMING ALL CAPS negative feedback for me in retaliation. And I'd be fine with that, except, without my original comments in place to give context to his, *I* look like the bad guy. Worse, I have no recourse to address this travesty, unless he agrees to it (!) or after I cough up $30 for SquareTrade's "mediation". And that doesn't even remove the feedback, just the -1 score!
If this strikes you as absurd, you're not alone. This is one of the primary factors involved in starting fastmemorymanSUCKS.com. When I published his contact information, he complained to eBay again, and I got this cease and desist letter. Nevermind that this information is freely available across the web. And as a seller, what motivation would you have to prevent people from knowing who you were and how to reach you? The mind boggles.
What's ironic (or perhaps fitting) is that I've come across many others who have committed the forbidden "included link or script" in feedback. Indeed, having seen it happen before, I did it myself. So ask yourself why eBay has allowed a user to post a URL in feedback almost 500 times, without acting upon it even after I notified them?
The same goes for counterfeits being sold on eBay and feedback scams. Enforcement is uneven at best, nonexistent at worst.
And let's not forget why eBay deleted my About Me page. It was titled, "The Ugly Truth About eBay", and it complained about much of what I have shown here. At the bottom were some links to "Alternative Auction Sites", one of which was gunbroker.com. eBay deleted the whole thing, saying that was a no-no — gun parts are bad! Yet it was on eBay that Seung-Hui Cho bought four magazines for his Walther P22 before shooting up Virginia Tech.
Questions? Comments! 
N.B. Even though all personal information (e.g. real name, e-mail
address, etc) was collected OUTSIDE of eBay's system — and was freely
provided by the users themselves in the course of a transaction with
this buyer — eBay has threatened suspension of this buyer's account for
listing it. These fields have been censored for the time being, but will be reinstated (indeed, expounded upon) should the account suffer any punishment. All content herein is otherwise exactly as received or sent, except that 1) my
address has been obscured for the purpose of avoiding spambots, 2)
extraneous HTML has been removed, and 3) slight formatting changes have
been made (namely, line length). These images and page archives are
taken directly from the websites in question, and have not been
modified except as to allow inclusion in this webpage.
