After Ebay stopped letting us use our E-mail addresses as usernames (supposedly to
"protect" us from SPAM) and forced those of us who at that point were still set up that
way to change our usernames (after using the SPAM angle to convince many others
to change before that point) I changed mine to:
glenap_at_moonie_dot_ca
Still have that username years later.
Keeping myself just as reachable as before even though technically passing the filters
they set up.
Ever since Ebay started muscling all it's users to use Paypal on all transactions and the
PAYPAL side of the company tightening the noose on fees I haven't bought or sold
anything on their site anyways. The integration of the 2 services for buy it now
auctions was slightly benificial (to stop people from clicking buy it now, ending the
listing, then sending an E-mail 1 minute later saying they clicked it by accident and
they will not buy it now, though that could be just as easily have been fixed by having
a "cancel buy it now and restore listing" option for the seller) but otherwise the merger
made 2 great services that (can) work well together (under separate ownership) a
bit too monolithic and the power went to their heads.
PAYPAL has really turned into mostly just annother credit card processor which is
unfortunate because they were the only ones with enough critical mass of users to
offer an effective digital checking account. (I'd always treated PAYPAL as an electronic
checking account back when I was actively using it.)