Originally Posted by
bykimbo
It might be simpler, but it wouldn't be better. Every time this comes up (and ye gods, it gives a tart's knickers a run for their money) somebody says "scrap run till sold" and somebody else says, quite rightly, that good legitimate sellers use run till sold in a perfectly sensible manner and why punish them by making their lives more difficult. Plenty of good sellers rely on run till sold to keep large inventories manageable. So don't look for a *simple* solution to the detriment of the site, look for a *good* solution - such as the closing of inactive listings. There have been many excellent strategies put forward in previous discussions of this problem - ebid don't need more ideas, they're ignoring the good ones they've already been given. By which we can assume that they have no desire to solve the problem at present.