Originally Posted by gfx3

Not a bad argument but I doubt that this would be the case, something like this would happen over time but certainly not the next day. Ebay is nothing more than a script that can be written by a bunch of coders in a week time. If you plan this correct, make it unique, use a good agressive promotion campaign (that's why you need all that money) you could take your market in a few months before the competition had the time to set up their service. You would get the attention, the traffic and not your copycats.