The sale of virtual items and assets has found its way into auction sites such as eBay. Although it was a common sight to see gold farmers list their virtual items on these sites, the sale of these virtual items does not actually take place there. More commonly, these sites are used to facilitate the sale on their own website.[citation needed]

In order to prevent legal entanglements and EULA violations, eBay has recently delisted all virtual property auctions. Items and property related to Linden Lab’s Second Life are exempt from this policy. eBay spokesman Hani Durzy explained the logic behind the apparent double standard: “If someone participates in Second Life and wants to sell something they own, we are not at this point proactively pulling those listings off the site…We think there is an open question about whether Second Life should be regarded as a game.”