They would like it on the admin screen or on the public side so customers can see what is currently on eBay?
If they are using ALP then they could do a side box with some content or a custom page and use a SQL query to pull information straight from the database about running auctions.
I have been thinking about this and it is a good way to drum up some business. I will see about writing something like this once we get 0.5.4 out the door and the bugs fixed.

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1443
Just though this may be useful to some people, maybe u could extract something from it david !