I would have co-posted about it here, had MMOG Nation been up, but last week I actually had the chance to do some question-asking. It’s like reporting, but I’m doing it.

Here’s the deal: Lum mentions eBay may be delisting VW stuff on Thursday. Later that day, I hunt down the media contact number for eBay and give them a call, which resulted in a post to Slashdot on Friday. It was one of the few chances I’ve had to create original non-review content for Slashdot, and I enjoyed it. On Monday C|Net continued the story, by asking the ‘duh’ question I’d neglected to ask the eBay rep: “So, does that include Second Life?” The answer being no, Giga Gamez points out something CNet has missed as well: eBay and 2L are sorta-in-bed via eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. With the dust starting to settle Van Hemlock does a couple of quick searches, noting that Second Life doesn’t have that much stuff on eBay anyway (making that part of the story not that interesting), and then Foton points out that eBay has said they’ll do this before. Like, several times. Which I really wish I’d remembered when I saw Scott’s post in the first place, and stayed off the phone. Oh well.

I still think there are some interesting things to be gleaned from this, given the renewed discussion on RMT and whatnot. Plus, if eBay continues to go through with it, IGE will print a fortune. But then … they probably would have anyway. Live and learn.