eBay being sued over patent infringement

That's right here in the next town over. If it's an open courtroom I could go over there and check it out. I don't know about eBay and patent infringement, but I think eBay has a monopoly on the online auction market for private individuals which might warrant anti-trust action. I don't think a private individual would be able to sell many types of items anymore through a classified ad, and if they tried to use another online auction service, would do so poorly, that if they would like to do the best they can, just about have no choice but to list on eBay. Also, eBay has such power in this arena these days, i.e. no other online auction service for the private individual seems to be able to compete very well with them, that they got the sellers by the "nads". They don't seem to be very interested in the performance of their customers, i.e. the sellers. That's why I don't offer anything for sale on eBay anymore. I only buy on eBay these days. At 05:48 PM 4/23/03 -0700, you wrote: