eBay exempts Second Life over virtual items auctions

Published January 31st, 2007


eBay stepped up a ban on listing virtual items, such as characters and weapons from online multi-player games World of Warcraft and EverQuest II. Virtual world Second Life has been exempt from the ban because eBay does not consider it a game, not because eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is an investor, reports Auction Bytes. [...]



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