Pottery Chatroom Board

I don't think tying the chats into ebay is probably desirable. No need to do that anyway, but maybe some announcement in Community would be the ticket. John said that the platform (don't ask, I don't know) upon which liveworld chats was operating was too expensive to keep running and would have required some new formatting to be compatible with their new "systems" so they dumped the chats. i'll take a look at Community when I get a minute and see if that might work. It is rather a shame and it could only be helpful to ebay to have advisers out here in the ether who've been at it awhile and can remove some of the fears newbies have. Heck, I have fears! Ebay tinkers constantly and not always successfully. And it's more complicated than ever before. You hit the nail on the head, Gordon, about the small sellers being the life blood of ebay early on - - a subject I harped on with John (he called me a couple times, as well as a few others who had written him with concerns) - and while he knew what I said was true, he is only one guy who is powerless to change the direction in which ebay is travelling. An Amazon wannabee. He didn't respond when I said that ebay would just as soon get rid of the little guys altogether; we knew it, but for now most of us do stay.