I never liked the sellathon counters in the first place. Erratic at best, never updated on my auctiva current auctions list, unless I clicked the actual auction and looked at the counter itself. Sometimes I had to click the counter to get it to load, since it was usually the last item loading on the page anyway. I can see how someone might want to have signed up with sellathon for auction stats and auctiva gets a financial kickback which is fair by the way. But what would you need a lot of stats for if your sales are not blooming anyway. Just another overhead cost to doing expensive business on ebay.
Which reminds me, I wonder when ebay is going to cut our costs of launching auctions and doing other forms of business with them?