Sorry my apologies, Thank you for your reply PinkElephant. I did not get an email to say that you had replied - I was having the same problems as the OP, I wasn't posting for fun, but I am please to report that I have had no further issues with the selection option being missing in the web clipper in chrome - I am beginning to think that it was just related to that 1 particular web page, but even that page now clips with selection correctly.
I am pleased to say that lately there has been a lot of bug fixing and improvements going on in evernote. I have taken the time to go back and update some topics where they have been fixed in case people are subscribed to them.