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Complacency has made ebay think that no-one can touch it and that it can do whatever it likes.
Not so it seems, Their futile attempt to appeal the decision by Australia's ACCC has forced them to back down and, humiliatingly, withdraw it. The ACCC had a flood of complaints about ebay and Simon Smith the MD of ebay in Australia could only mumble his way through a prepared statement at an ACCC hearing, ignoring the numerous questions from ebay sellers there, having been bitch-whipped by ebay's lawyers. By all accounts it was a pathetic performance, and didn't wash with the ACCC, who just saw right through it.
So, ebay's plans to introduce paypal only in Australia and have it as a testing ground before going global has been well and truly staked through the heart by australian sellers and the ACCC, who are going to continue to keep a close eye on the dodgy dealings of ebay from now on. It's a righteous victory, and proves that even an internet giant like ebay can be stopped in it's tracks by what it sees as "the little people" 
If that wasn't all, ebay has also been fined nearly 40 million pounds by a french court for allowing fake perfume to be sold on it's sites. Again, it plans to appeal this decision and prove that it's working hard to stop counterfeits. It didn't care about fakes or "grey market" products before this conviction, as it got it's share of each deal, but now it's under the spotlight, it's suddenly started to clamp down on virtually all fashion label listings. Entire listings are being removed, whether the items are fakes or not so it can prove that it's doing something about it.
A clear case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted there! A common ailment that ebay suffers from.
I may even have had some sympathy with ebay, due to the product snobbery of the fashion labels that brought this case who don't like their overpriced crap being sold to us peasants at a much cheaper price. But the way ebay is persecuting sellers now in an effort to cover it's own arse negates any sympathy I may have had for them. I hope they fail in their appeal and other fashion labels stick the knife in as well.
They deserve it! 
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Posted by Mrebayer on 2008-07-11 17:41:07 | Rating: | Views: 94
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Ah! Seems as though Ebay has won it's appeal against the french ruling - lucky bastards! I may have not agreed with the elitism of some of these fashion labels, but I would've liked to see ebay get shafted. It doesn't compensate those who had honest listings removed with their hap-hazard clampdown in the face of it, though.
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Posted by Mrebayer
on 2008-08-18 17:11:51
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