The stench of ebay becomes unbearable as soon as you start trying to close your damn account with them.
A few months ago they emailed me saying that they were going to close my account in 30 days because I had done nothing with it in about 5 years. I thought this was fantastically nice of them to do for me, so I did nothing. Then 29 days later I get an email saying that they locked my account because it was compromised (After 5 years of obscurity? well okay, I suppose that is possible.) I logged in, verified that I did not have any personal information in the account that could have been stolen, set a long random password, and told ebay to remove the account. After filling out their survey about why I wanted to do that (which forced me to choose an option that was not my real reason...), they tell me that they need 150 more days to close my account. It was 30 days, but now they need 150 days to ensure all of my (five year old...) transactions are finalized? What bullshit.
That was several months ago. A few weeks ago I got another email from them saying that my account was again compromised. I am now convinced that they lie about that as a way of tricking you back onto the site to regain you as a customer. Or maybe they are incompetent and an account being closed trips their fraud system...
