I'd say that e-gold (at least for me) seems like a very impractical system to use, but I can totally understand the dealers who are looking for alternative payment systems.
@slay
Get your facts right There are extremely few e-gold tojans out there today and most (if not all) are detected with an up to date anti-virus program. These trojans used a vulnerability in OLE and COM that allowed code execution in the object linking and embedding module/COM module. This security flaw only affected users using Internet Explorer and was patched early last year. One of the reasons for this patch was in fact the technique used by the e-gold trojans. On any system today, that has been patched/updated in the last year, it is not possible to start an cloned backgroundIE session via OLE, like it was back then. So even if there excists customized versions, they all used the same vulnerability, that has been patched. Then again....there will always excist unpatched systems....