[Aetius]

Yeah let me rephrase that:

  When the business is scamming customers, 
  competition in a free market is not a pretty sight.

And no, I'm not aloof enough to believe we have a truly free market. But it's free enough to let thousands of Swoopo clones race bid prices to the bottom. Now it seems customers may even be winning more from the auction sites than the auction sites are taking in.

But fear not for Swoopo! They'll undoubtedly sell their soon-to-be patented "technology" to the likes of Intellectual Ventures, who'll use it to extort other would be scammers, completing the circle of evil!

[maxharris]

Why would any business want anything to buy their IP? There is no profit in their idea or IP.