[Shorty]

Even if we stopped visitors checking out the site, I still think banning links to ebay auctions is a good idea. Given the fact that we're all soup fanatics, telling others about a 'gem' on the bay shouldn't be neccessary imo. If people want something enough they will find it themselves.
For me part of the fun of collecting is putting the work in, trawling through the listings in order to find what I really want.
Alerting everyone to an auction just doesn't seem fair.
You snooze you lose I guess.

That said, I wouldn't bid against another member if they'd put down a marker bid already.

Alternatively, we could just have a nice game of conkers to detemine who gets the kicks