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Sue the bastard.
Most people who have tried to give you advice have wrongly focused soley on the design similarities. If it were just the design similarities and the guy was on a non-adult domain name running a bookstore, you wouldn't have much of a claim.
However, the copyist is operating in the same segment of the same industry as you, and is very obviously trying to profit at your expense from the business and reputation you have built by mimicing your site.
All of you people advising against suing, here is an experiment for you to try. Put up a site about online auctions which looks remotely similar to EBays site and has a similar domain name, then see how long it takes before the C&D letters begin arriving.
I learned this from my Ex's stepfather, a sucessful tort lawyer, who said something like the following to me while we were discussing a case: Even when the letter of the law isn't clearly on your side, you can predict your level of sucess 95% of the time if you can accurately discern the ease with which an objective observer can be persuaded to infer nefarious intent on the part of the defendent.
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