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Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 112 - June 27, 2001 - ISSN 1539-5065      Previous Story | | Next Story

EBay Stops Yates Auction
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
June 27, 2001
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eBay pulled an auction for the Web address AndreaPiaYates.com. Andrea Yates, 36, is the Houston woman accused of drowning her five children. Bids for the domain name started Tuesday at $500,000 and solicited six offers before eBay closed the bidding, which had reached $752,011. The seller, Charles H. Ziegler III of Pennsylvania said he wanted to use the auction to direct potential buyers to another auction site where he was selling a domain named after the slain wife of actor Robert Blake. EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told the Houston Chronicle in Wednesday's editions the auction violated eBay's policy implemented May 17th prohibiting sales items associated with killers and notorious crimes.


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