Online Casino Auction is stopped by eBay
14 December 2005

BetbyInternet, a popular online casino and sportsbook, has announced that their $100 thousand dollar auction that was posted on eBay has been halted by eBay. The auction was for a pre-paid online gambling membership. According to eBay, they stopped the BetbyInternet’s auction as they believed it to be “encouraging illegal actions”.

Apparently, the lot turned out to be less than 50 per cent of the original value of $100 thousand dollars, and actually had a reserve value of only $49 thousand dollars. After looking into it eBay pulled the plug on the auction, and this didn’t seem to come as much of a surprise to BetbyInternet.

In fact, according to the director of promotions for BetbyInternet, Lee Samuels, he said that he was rather surprised that it took the legal team of eBay almost 2 full days to discover the details of the auction, and finally react to it by choosing to stop the auction. Samules comments that eBay sent an email addressed to their promotions department explaining that their auction “encouraged illegal actions”. All in all, BetbyInternet finds it interesting that it took eBay’s legal department so long to finally decide to close their auction.

BetbyInternet is not concerned about the loss of their first auction, and has plans to list an auction that was similar to their first, except with a slightly different twist. Their new promotion is going to be a Las Vegas gambling trip. BetbyInternet’s Vice-Presiden of Operations, Randal Zuniga, believes that due to the fact that gambling is legal in Vegas, eBay shouldn’t have an issue with their new auction type. For now, they’ll simply have to wait and see if eBay agrees.