[MUD-Dev] Ebay bans character selling

[Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Frank Crowell wrote:
 
> I believe that Sony/Verant will do more harm in the long run by
> driving this whole buying/selling business underground. At least
> Yahoo and Ebay provided some protection to the buyer.  And this in
> no way solves the "account stealing" problem -- which was the real
> problem to begin with.

Well, yes and no. Seen from their point of view, they want to stop the
selling of items/characters. And closing down the official auction
sites will simply increase the price taken for the stuff.  This in
turn will lessen the activity. So from their point of view, i think
they have indeed made progress. (not that i agree with their views
:-).


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