eBay Malaysia Bans Digitally Delivered Goods

I just received this notification. If you are selling digitally delivered goods on eBay, you might want to reconsider another market place. But read on first:

Digitally Delivered Goods to be banned on eBay.com.my
April 09, 2008 | 09:31AM a MYT

eBay has decided to ban digitally delivered goods listed on eBay.com.my due to the high risk they pose in undermining eBay’s Feedback System.

Digitally delivered goods are often reproduced at little to no cost to the seller. On eBay, this creates the potential for feedback manipulation (both real and perceived). To preserve the integrity of the Feedback System, all goods that can be digitally downloaded or transferred electronically will be banned on eBay.com.sg, effective from April 16th.

However, kindly note also that while the title of the ebay post is directed to eBay.com.my, its content read eBay.com.sg, which is the Singapore eBay. Commonsense tells one that it probably meant for both, so I think the eBay team who posted this is excused.

But back to digitally delivered goods: I take it to mean software, audio visuals, mp3 and the likes which can be transmitted online. This is a good step to prevent fraud from buyers especially. Kudos to eBay but what about legitimate buyers of such goods that can be digitally delivered, and of the sellers, who will now have to incure extra costs to burn them into media such as DVD etc?