Well said ...
I'm retired; to a some extent I am confined to home; what else can I get obsessive about? Poking a stick at the eBay snake keeps my mind active. Needless to say I have tried to say a lot of this on their forums, but most of it is pulled pretty quickly, and I've spent several stints on the eBay "naughty chair" so I now have to be careful.
They would not let me say what I wanted to say on their forums so I did a Google search for "eBay AND hidden-ids OR hidden-bidders OR shill-bidding OR shill-bidders", proceeded to join all the forums that had had any discussion about such matters and plastered my primary comment all over the internet.