Whoa! I use the Opera browser, am quite happy with it and have zero intention of changing. Yes, it's true that I have Internet Explorer installed because I need it to teach my classes. But, I'm not going to open it up just for a casual look-see.

And it's also true that the vast majority of Internet searchers use IE. But, several percent use Opera and there are another few percentage points who use Mozilla. That might not seem like much, but when you consider that there are tens of millions of net users, that's a lot of folks. Why eliminate anyone from your potential customer pool?

And the irony is that by making a simple, single adjustment on the auction site in question, my Opera browser would most likely have displayed the page just fine.

Question for the site owners: how many people are going to change/install a new browser and return to your site???