EBAY Halts Online Gambling Membership After Second Day of Heavy Bidding

December 10, 2005 (Press Release) -- Online sportsbook and casino, BET by INTERNET, announced that EBAY has decided to halt its $100,000 auction for a pre-paid membership to be used for online gambling. The auction which ran almost a full two days had seen its fair share of traffic from EBAY potential buyers. BETByINTERNET announced on popular sports betting forum that the reserve price was set at nearly 50% less the face value of $100,000, or somewhere around $49,000. "I am surpised it took nearly two full days for the EBAY legal team to catch and react to the auction and finally make the decision to stop the auction siting 'encouraging illegal actions' in an email addressed to our promotions department", said Lee Samuels, Director of Promotions. "Our guess is that the legal department was at a prolonged holiday party and slept the first few days of the auction", he added.

BETbyINTERNET plans to list a similar auction, but this time will make the catch of the promotion a pre-paid gambling trip to Las Vegas.
"Gambling is only legal in Vegas, we guess?", said Randal Zuniga, Vice-president of operations. "So my guess is that EBAY should not have a problem with this type of auction", Zuniga concluded.

The exact copy of the email sent by EBAY is below:

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Dear betbyinternet,

We appreciate that you chose eBay to list the following auction-style listing(s):

5644060061 - BETbyINTERNET.com Membership Face Value $100,000

However, your auction-style listing(s) violates eBay's Encouraging Illegal Activity policy and has been removed. In accordance with our User Agreement, items prohibited by law or by eBay policy are not allowed on eBay. We have credited all associated fees to your account and notified eBay users associated with the transaction that it has been cancelled.

eBay prohibits the sale of items or links to items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.Sellers may not list items that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct use of online casino websites.

Please note: violation of this or other eBay policies may result in forfeit of eBay fees on cancelled listings, limits on account privileges and account suspension.

Please review eBay's Prohibited and Restricted Items guidelines and User Agreement at the following locations:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/item_allowed.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreement.html

For more information on why eBay removesauction-style listings, or to write to us with questions, please review the following Web page:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/listing-ended.html

We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Regards,

eBay Trust & Safety

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BETbyINTERNET continues its $100,000 Challenge, played with $25. Visit www.BETbyINTERNET.com for more information on the 13 game parlay promotion.

BetbyInternet.com, an online entertainment company offering casino games, sportsbook gambling, sports wagering and betting is powered by WorldGaming PLC, a leading international e-gaming solutions provider that has been in business since 1997 and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and NASDAQ (OTC.BB).

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