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The fundamental necessity for our decision to maintain this rule stems from eBay's desire to protect the security and privacy of its members. Any situation wherein a member discloses his or her user id, and password to a third party opens a host of potential situations involving misuse of this information.
This is obviously pure eBay CRAP.
In case they havent noticed there are several million listings on eBay by: Andale, Auctiva, AuctionWorks, Channel Advisor, Vendio, Auction Helper and so on.
All of those companies help eBay sellers list and manage their eBay auctions. And all of them require the eBay sellers username and password.
So come on eBay, get your stories straight, or change your policies. It's ok for sellers to share their info, but not buyers? That's not what your policy says. eBay just doesnt have the nuts to go end 35% of the listings on their site by those sellers because they need the money. But they dont mind ending the few listings that have a link to our site because it wont hurt their bottom line.
Or maybe it's just some poor sport in your policies department got his pitifully low bid beat by one of our snipers one day and had a tissy fit. Wahh Wahh, you big babies!
If security is the reason, then come up with a solution and let sites such as ourselves join the eBay API.