Once you start looking at the nuts & bolts data about ebaY things seems even more mysterious. Example: ebaY traffic appears to be on the increase. They show a rank increase at both Alexa & Quantcast. However, look at Alexa chart for search.
Does it seem resonable that numbers such as these ^ can exist while others like the STR are waaaaay down, items listed are way up, strange 'glitches' with the listing counts, all as we know that sellers are leaving/being kicked off like water through a seive, and that ebay sales are a smaller and smaller portion of the corp's total profits?
To say the least it's puzzling.
Keep in mind ebaY has been caught red-handed in scandals regarding fake traffic being 'generated'.