Brokers in the top tier started offering several hundred contracts for sale and the locals joined the selling frenzy.

Store managers have been known to dress up as Kermit the Frog in attempting to get employees whipped into a selling frenzy.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 34.44 points, to 2,516.64, as the market's blue-chip sector continued to bear the brunt of the recent selling frenzy.

According to an eBay spokesperson, this was "the first time anything other than an Apple product has sparked such a selling frenzy."

The selling frenzy would have roiled American markets in junk bonds, corporate takeover stocks, mortgage securities and even Treasury bonds.

Poor financials, either real or anticipated, are good reasons to unload stocks, but the recent selling frenzy even pummeled the share prices of some strong-performing small companies.

Did the tax increase proposed by Congressional tax writers just before the market went wild help unleash the selling frenzy on Wall Street?

And it is stirring its people into a selling frenzy.

Japanese traders said the initial selling frenzy seemed to disappear after about an hour, partly because some investors began to believe that stocks were looking inexpensive.

So far, the department has bought 5,111 guns in a selling frenzy that has at times created lines across police station parking lots and into the street.