I still disagree with Ebay's crisis with people 
putting links to other sites in the item 
descriptions. If a store wnats to garner more 
business by auctioning off some goods, then so be 
it. Ebay gets business, the store gets business 
and everyone *should* be happy. And it is NOT
"free" advertising - last I checked, you have to 
pay money to list an item on Ebay.

Yes, Ebay is not a store - and being not a store, 
they cannot tell a storeowner who has paid their 
listing fee to go somewhere else. A "real" store 
has just as much right to buy a listing space as 
a private individual.

Ebay is very VERY busily trying to forget that 
they're nothing more than a GLORIFIED YARD SALE. 
And an increasingly OVER-glorified yard sale, at 
that.

But I also noted your point about the phrasing 
Misa used. . . It *can* easily be read more than 
one way. Lately you're simply best leaving that 
kind of information off and letting people write 
to you if they need the information up front. I 
actually simply stopped accepting any Paypal 
payments from anyone. It was too much of a pain 
on all fronts. (And I don't even have to worry 
about fees since I don't sell enough to need more 
than the personal account.)

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac