for ebay etc to stick on their shirt lapels.

While the meal is going on and the drinks are flowing, the politicians and their mates are cozying up the money guys and asking how they can help scratch each other's backs.

All those Republican's will soon be out of work and probably fancy an easy job on the board of an IT company.

I am always amazed how Brit writers love to abuse their language.

To receive a 'Gong' is to be castigated, not rewarded.

The writer is too young or inexperienced to be aware of the Gong Show where contestants were given a fixed amount of time to entertain or even placate a team of judges. The gong was employed to indicate a failed act.

So as we can clearly see, eBay did receive a gontg at all, rather it received some sort of reward for services rendered.

Brits!

CD Baric
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pierre Omidyar was the founder of eBay, not Meg Whitman.. although the Pez dispenser site reference is correct.

That is the corporate way. Scamming is rewarded in this country if you make big bucks that is. Ask any congressman (or their bank account). Don't you watch the news :p

Yeah they deserve this for what? for ripping people off? Or for treating ebay sellers like dirt at the request of idiotic buyers/scammers/etc?