Ebayers

You're paying for a service, the service of getting the item(s) for you, not the item itself really. In fact, I'm no lawyer but if it was actually "selling" the item itself, Blizzard might potentially have grounds to sue some of the larger places that sell those things. (would they bother? who knows? who cares?)

I personally am against paying someone else to play the game for me. In fact once I pay for the game I really don't want to have to be paying more to play the dumb thing (one reason I unfortunately will never play WoW, Neverwinter Nights, etc).

I find Ebaying kind of silly and the people who do that don't have much respect in my book really because you're essentially buying your way into a level you yourself did not attain by actually playing the game (then again the real world works like that sometimes). Yes you can have all the posts about skill and strategy and the builds, but when it comes down to it for most cases its going to depend on your gear. Just buying the gear online kind of defeats the purpose because you're really reducing the game from what it is, a big treasure hunt and seeing who got the coolest stuff, to who dropped the most cash to some fat, lonely guy who runs bots all day with pickit, etc and can't get a girl without giving his credit card number first.

Yeah those guys you pay? Those tend to be the worst of the idiots who will run around stealing all your drops or running through the open games to find one and pk you over that anni so you can buy it all back from them with real cash. I'd rather play my own game and not reward morons like that thanks.

Pay for something that does not really exist? No, thank you. I don't have anything against players that do that but part of the game that has always been challenging is trying to trade/obtain that item you really need. But like anything else, if there is a need there will be a way to obtain something - Ebay included.