Tracking Ping on Ebay

In a moment of weakness today, I considered creating a client for the ebay api which would poll for updated bidding history on a handful of auctions, and store that information in a simple database. It would make for suitable content to syndicate into the mt forum thread tracking the financial victory of Ping. Sadly, the quickly-obtainable developer licence keys for the api are not applicable to the production servers, only a sandbox. For courtesy reasons, I didn’t want to screen-scrape the auction details pages, so the project was abandoned all too quickly.