Ebay please fix: vacation mode gotcha

Ebay recommends putting your store in vacation mode if you're being affected by Sandy.

What they don't tell you is that you can't really quite do that.  It just looks like it.

Here's the help page: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/placing-store-vacation.html

Here's the introduction:

Going on vacation? You can use your Store vacation settings to make sure your buyers don't have a negative shopping experience by buying items and unexpectedly waiting a long time to receive them.

Here's the gotcha:

Note: If you selected the immediate pay option on your listings, buyers will still be able to purchase your items.

So. Why would that be?

Just the way it is. Someone declared the software complete when it contained a defect. Document the defect, call it done.