Yes, you're right, 'femme-fan', my problem is with the retail world co-opting a respected term with a specific meaning from the world of art and archaeology.
I worked with museums for a number of years, and the curators I knew were people who had spent a lifetime studying and writing in their field and were able to determine what pieces in a collection had artistic, educational or historical value that was worth putting on public view, and that followed a narrative, or had meaning as a whole. This eBay "curator" nonsense is just borrowed respectability, hoping the patina of intelligence and experience associated with the term will rub off. Horsefeathers!
These are just people pulling together commercial "stuff" they happen to like personally - there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but honestly, must eBay now try to pretend its site is above the hoi polloi? Next they'll be putting PhDs after these people's names, degrees earned no doubt at the Université d'eBay.
I suppose it's inevitable that eBay will become just another social media site once it's fully integrated with the others (Facebook, Pinterest et al). I wonder if anyone has seriously considered what sort of privacy and security issues that might create for eBay sellers?
Oh yes - personal shoppers. I turned and ran from one once at The Bay, and never did go back to that floor again.
