In 1997 eBay enjoyed a sales growth of 1,432.3 percent.
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The bad sellers don't stay around very long. However, sellers have up for auction such things as AK-47s, pornography and drugs, with no supervision. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.