We work fairly closely with a number of the companies in the games industry, and this has often been a topic of discussion. This has been going on before eBay. There are people who basically play these games for a living. They start with a new character and play the game literally 8 hour a day, 5 or 6 days a week. Once the character has a suitable level of experience they sell the character and start over again. Once you get good at the games you can make a reasonable living this way. By the way, a good character can be sold for more than $10,000, but I doubt these transactions occur on eBay (but, I could be wrong). -- Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca Professor (780) 492-4584 Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS) Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX) University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada