We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is reaching out to the community and understanding what it is that eBay can do to help keep interest in collecting alive. That's really important to us.

This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyday.

To talk about [sales tax rates] independent of what we're currently facing is slightly unprofessional.

Were the sales in January created by a tax motive? Probably,

He's the Texas League champion. The first part of the season he was trying to kill everything because he's a big, strong kid. I told him to just try and put the ball in play and see what happens and he and Nick Cook have done a wonderful job for us in right field.

The big bet for the apparel merchants is not how Easter sales will shape up in April but how the weather acts.