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Over the last few days Ebay has started telling me I'm blocking cookies when I try to log on.

Now I've been with computers long enough to know that they sometimes do stuff all by themselves, so I checked. Nope. I've got cookie choices set to only accept cookies from the site I'm on. It's been like that since Opera first gave me the choice and I've had no complaints from any site I've visited, including Ebay.

So I checked their terms and sure enough it says that they allow other companies to place cookies, but that I can block them if I wish. No problems there then.

So I searched for some way to get in touch, and from the front page it seems that 'help' is the only way. Upon arrival at the help page I'm asked what my problem is, so I type in "cookies" and up comes another page asking me what I want to know about cookies, and it gives me a choice of one question to click upon. That question is "How do I clear cookies?". Not exactly what I'm looking for, so I click the nice big 'Contact us' button.

It doesn't work.

So I go back a page and there I spot a smaller and more inconspicuous 'contact us' button, sneaky, but I try it anyway.

It takes me to the log in page. I log in. It tells me there is a problem with cookies.

Hmmm. So how to get in touch with them? This is obviously a time for blue sky lateral thinking outside the box. I decide to leave a message in the community forum, where sure as eggs someone will reply giving me an email address, so I go to the community forum and it asks me to log in. I log in. It tells me there is a problem with cookies.

I won't go into all the weird and wonderful ways I have tried to get in touch with this organization. Suffice it to say that I even found an old Ebay underneath the new one. I guess they just jacked it up and installed the new one or something. No, hang on, that can't be right. Anyhoo, this old version had a fully working 'contact us' button. I clicked it. It took me to the log on screen. I log in. It tells me there is a problem with cookies.

To put it politely, I was back in the restaurant again.

I am well aware that all I actually need to do is to fire up Firefox and everything will work just fine, but I don't see why I should have to. I've been using Opera since before there was an Ebay. It's up to them to write a site (Love that. "Write a site". I must remember it) that fits W3C guidelines, then it will work with all browsers, or at least if it doesn't then it's the browsers that are at fault.

And if it still doesn't work with Opera I shall be on here complaining to Opera about it.

Unless I log in and it tells me there is a problem with cookies.