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eBay Cancels Account Auction
Hype not also going to work in your favor as online casino BetbyInternet just
painfully realized when Ebay reneged on the online casino's highly publicized
$100,000 account auction. the online auction forum had decided after
considerable amounts of publicity that the auction for the BetbyInternet account
would be promoting an illegal activity in the country which eBay is based from,
the United States.
the online casino, BetbyInternet, had set a mere $49,000 minimum reserve
price which is less than fifty percent less than the online casino account's
actual value of $100,000. the interesting thing is how actively the promotion
was advertised long before the auction, but the eBay legal department did not
catch on to the fact until well after the auction had began and did not even
email BetbyInternet until two days after the bidding had begun.
“Our guess is that the legal department was at a prolonged holiday party and
slept the first few days of the auction.” said Lee Samuels, BetbyInternet's
Director of Promotions at. BetbyInternet is not seeing this as the end of the
road and is pursuing holding another promotional auction that will be less
likely to ruffle the feathers of eBay's legal department. the new auction will
now most likely feature an all expense paid gambling trip to Las Vegas. Randal
Zuniga BetbyInternet's VP of Operations said, “Gambling is
legal only in Vegas, So my guess is that eBay should not have a problem with
this type of auction."
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