That sort of thing sometimes happens on high-profile listings, its what we call bogus bidding — people just bidding with no intention to pay for it. People sometimes do that because they think it is funny, and it's not.

We've worked with the New York Attorney General's office to provide them with information on people that were breaking their state laws as well as to make adjustments to how we message what our policy is to eBay users,

This isn't new. We announced a Safe Payments Policy back in October 2005, and began implementing it in January 2006. It governs the types of payments services that sellers can market in their listings. Of course, due to the nature of eBay being a marketplace, we can't monitor or control how buyers and sellers actually complete payments and transactions.

Ultimately, this is between the buyer and seller. This is just a venue.

Ebay gets 3.5 million listings daily. So there's no way to accurately capture what percentage of those listings represent unwanted holiday gifts.

We haven't made any decisions yet, but we think (click-to-call) is an important component to e-commerce down the road.