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By: eBay to Halt Virtual Item Sales? | Games Money

eBay to Halt Virtual Item Sales? | Games Money — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:33:24 +0000

[...] UPDATE: eBay has now confirmed that it is no longer selling virtual goods. See Slashdot and our follow-up post for more. Additional commentary from Valleywag, Joystiq, Revenews and VTOR. [...]

By: Steve Henry

Steve Henry — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:43:03 +0000

I’ve been researching this topic for several days from when I first saw the article on SlashDot, trying to get some official eBay confirmation. Of course, I’ve got a bias as we’ve just opened a mall on our site for those selling this stuff. But I wanted to know for sure what was going on.

It seems that last night most, if not all, non-SecondLife virtual game stuff was pulled from eBay (oh, yeah, SecondLife is not a game. Right. That eBay’s founder has some financial connection to that one isn’t nepotism at all! And I did finally get a response from the eBay listing policy team which said in part:

“eBay policy doesn’t allow the sale of online virtual gaming items, including game accounts, game characters, game currency, game points or other similar game items. Although you may have sold similar items in the past, future listings of such items will not be permitted.”

So, eBay is officially out of (well, almost out of) the virtual game pieces listing business. My guess is that some die-hard gamers applaud this and the various sellers are upset.

Steve/wiz.

By: Virtual Worlds, Real Profits - » eBay to Halt Virtual Item Sales?

Virtual Worlds, Real Profits - » eBay to Halt Virtual Item Sales? — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:18:29 +0000

[...] UPDATE: eBay has now confirmed that it is no longer selling virtual goods. See Slashdot and our follow-up post for more. Additional commentary from Valleywag, Joystiq and VTOR. [...]