Uber upgrade?

[whyBish]

My actual opinion, devil's advocacy aside, is that the sale of items for Real Life™ currency should probably not be part of the game. Blizzard should have included rules to this effect in the ToS, asked eBay to desist from presenting D2 item/character sales (much as Sony did with Everquest), and worked to shut down (using the terms of the ToS) item warehouse websites.

That is a rather naive view, considering that the world is such a large place. How would they stop clan exchanges (e.g. an A.B. type weopon bank but a tracking of value contributed/removed etc.). It would just push selling off of 'secure' methods like EBay and into sites hosted in countries that Blizzard could not sue in, or down into trading in smaller groups. In the end, Ebay purchases is no different to me paying my neighbor $20 for item X... and how would they police that? It is a game after all and not an invitation to sign up to a R.L. big brother scenario.

Or maybe I've misinterpreted?