These are the new rules?

- Every listing needs to have at least one photo.
- Photos must be at least 500 pixels on the longest side.
- The primary photo for items in used condition can't be a stock photo.
- Photos can't have added borders, text, or artwork.
- Watermarks are allowed for ownership and attribution, but not marketing.

My opinion... likely the same as many many buyers who want to know what they are bidding on-

If you don't post a pic, you're nuts and shouldn't be surprised if you don't get bids.
If your pic isn't quite big enough, open it with Paint and enlarge it - it takes about 10 seconds
The pic you post SHOULD be of the actual item you are going to ship the buyer (Right, Stan??)
Borders, text and artwork is just fluff to make it look like this item is better than the other 4 dozen like items listed
The last one clearly allows you to protect you from some lazy seller who would rather steal your photo than take his own.

Stan, by the way is a chip club member who last year listed a $5 chip I was looking for, and posted a photo of a AU condition chip, then shipped a VERY worn out poor condition chip. When I opened a not as described complaint, he declared that he should not have to take the extra time to picture every chip he was selling, and that general stock photos were "good enough"

After Paypal made him refund the cost after I shipped it back, he was generous enough to put me on his blocked bidder list for not just eating my bid and causing him all the trouble.

From what I see, Ebay for once, is watching out for the bidders instead of coddling power sellers.