I heard a rumor that this is part of a test rollout for glitchBay. In the very near future, if you want to experience Ebay in the cleanest way possible, you will have to subscribe to the Premier Glitch Free Edition of Ebay at a cost of $99.95 a month.
What comes with this new Premier Edition you ask? Well in a word "nothing". Ebay simply agrees to NOT update things that don't need to be updated:
#They agree to NOT change policies on a whim, forcing millions of users to adapt on the fly, for what usually seems like no good reason.
#They agree to drop their "because we said so" style of customer service with all their customers.
#They agree to NOT constantly adapt new policies which create adversarial relationships between their buyers and sellers.
#They agree to NOT sell ad space to your competitors on the listing pages that YOU pay THEM for.
#They agree to the general philosophy of "If it ain't broke, don't fu#*ing try to fix it".
#They agree to NOT raise your fees every time some talking head on MSNBC tells the public that Ebay's stock is "Falling below expectations".
#They agree, that if they do raise your fees, they will never, ever, ever, ever, condescend to you by declaring in the following media blitz how this is not a rate hike, but should save us all lots of money. All we have to do is list 5000 auctions a week and start them all at a penny, and offer free shipping, and free returns, and free merchandise "We're doing this for you guys, not for us".
#They agree to NOT block 3rd party snipe services out of spite, and to the detriment of sellers and buyers everywhere because of some pipe dream they have of implementing their own Pay For Play snipe service that has never materialized.
#They agree to NOT pretend they are Amazon, but without any actual inventory or infrastructure of their own.
#They agree to stop trying to self-sabotage the auction portion of their business because they want to make their site look like a retail playground instead (related to the above Amazon addendum).
All in all, it's probably a pretty good deal.
Off course, if you don't want to spring for the Premier Edition, "glitchBay" in all it's glory will still be available to you "free" of charge.