We have always had a policy that if it's illegal to do off eBay, it's illegal to do on eBay, ... We have made some changes and additions to our existing stun gun policy. We want to continue to keep people from doing illegal things on eBay.
They can say whatever they want about their gross market volume.
We haven't made any decisions yet, but we think (click-to-call) is an important component to e-commerce down the road.
Some of our competitors have twisted our metrics in the local marketplace. We don't give those numbers out any more for competitive reasons.
When we asked them to show us a law to show it is unlawful, and they were unable to do so, we said they're legal as far as we're concerned.
It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the site. Right now, much of the world's attention is on Pope Benedict and so it is not a surprise for us to see numerous Pope Benedict listings on the site.
That sort of thing sometimes happens on high-profile listings, its what we call bogus bidding — people just bidding with no intention to pay for it. People sometimes do that because they think it is funny, and it's not.
We've worked with the New York Attorney General's office to provide them with information on people that were breaking their state laws as well as to make adjustments to how we message what our policy is to eBay users.
We haven't seen any product, since one apparently does not exist yet. So we can't comment on what we haven't seen.
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