I didn't believe it but it's true...

[avevale_intelligencer]

People are selling EVE Online money on Ebay.

You send them real money--I've seen up to a hundred quid quoted--and in return they send you Monopoly money (in vast quantities, true, but a hundred million nothings is still nothing).

James Branch Cabell was right, and Nyronds are truly redundant.

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[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Or Germany between the wars. "Big Mac and fries? That'll be one million ISK, sir..."

[armb.livejournal.com]

And if, say, the company running Eve suddenly announce they will be moving onto a new game and money won't carry over, then the real world value of Eve money will collapse even faster than that.
Other interesting comparisons might be mining company tokens that can only be spent in the company store which is the only store in town, and cigarettes in prisons.