Actually, eBay DOES require CC or a user-verify
system when signing up with a hotmail address
(which is why I don't worry quite as much
anymore when hotmail users bid on any items
I'm selling)... they must've had fraud problems
with these accounts in the past (Hotmail doesn't
require any sort of user verification - don't
know if any of the others do for that matter :P)

I don't know if they require it for any other
email providers.  (*shrug*)

Lady Z