Not a bad idea every once in a while to go into My eBay and expand every possible option under My Account, I don't change my setting very often but occasionally some of the setting at least make me stop and think for a moment.
A few times things get turned on or off seemingly by magic. Same goes for PayPal settings.
Personally I have setting to receive almost all the emails which are optional, I do have filter rules set up in Outlook. these emails go directly to specific folders so I don't see them unless I need to. Of course most of these rules are "subject" based, when eBay changes the default subject line they start showing up in my regular inbox.

"What else could I do? I had no trade so I became a peddler" - Lazarus Greenberg 1915
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