I feel the same way - They are taking away from the users.... My site match attempt did't work out well as of yet..... I submitted and paid the $100 on the 22nd.... By the 26th I started emailing... They told me if I had no answer by the 28th to call which I did that day.... They told me that I would only be notified if declined, but I never got that notification either.... I guess it was a good thing it was only $100....
I just want to share a friend's experience. He dominates most of his competitive terms for his company (field, country, language). Recently he wanted to advertise on Yahoo for some term he was not very well ranked. Lets say he sells bananas, oranges, apples, etc. He dominates the grocery store field for his products, but he was not well ranked for apples. Then he searched for "apples" and clicked on the sponsored results link and submitted the form telling them he wanted to advertise for apples. Final result all of his few natural results related to apples were removed from Yahoo. In Google and MSN he have good results for that term.
It's weird, but more than likely it' a coincidence, but I wouldn't put it past them... Just one of those things, we'll just never be able to know... Could you imagine?
Clasione, I don't agree with your comments on cross linking - whilst it's speculation, we'll never know why they have done what they have done, but a .net and .com of a domain name is two different websites, if they are linking to each other then it's cross linking. The example I have seen, is 2 large vacation rental websites, which were linked together, and just like you only one of his domains were affected by Yahoo. Yahoo or any other search engine will not see it as one big large website - unless you were pointing both domain names to the same IP address?
My site got sacked on June 12th exactly. Since then nothing changed. The same site's on top in MSN and Google.