That's only a very small fraction of it. It has all been too fast & furious to keep up with. They also lost a huge lawsuit in France, and appear to perhaps be refusing to pay the fines. In NY, they are also being accused of having not paid fines from a lawsuit from the Gov't. (can't get to my other computer for the links & don't feel like looking for them
Over at auctionbytes there were about 3 posts today. Some real humdingers.
Apparently, ebay, being the loathsome, cheap-ass, cheating, commie e-tards that they are, they are advising wrongfully suspended sellers to turn in their competition: (snippet)
I finally tracked down a phone number to find out what is going on and got a got someone in store support on the phone, after 45 minutes of waiting mind you. He informed me that having 5 games in the listing was confusing buyers since the Wii Sports disc did have 5 games but buyers were expecting 5 separate disc and they were getting a lot of upset buyers. No warning no nothing. After having the rep talk to trust and safety they refused to remove my selling restriction and suggested that I spend my 3 day suspension reporting every seller who had a listing that had 5 games in the title so that they could get all those types of listings removed.
eBay and retailers are about to duke it out over legislation introduced into the US House of Representatives yesterday. House Resolution 6491, the Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008, was introduced on Tuesday and was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. It would make organized retail crime a federal offense and would make marketplaces like eBay more accountable for stolen goods listed on their sites.
The National Retail Federation's press release about H.R. 6491 referenced this week's ruling in the Tiffany-eBay counterfeiting case. In that case, US District Judge Richard J. Sullivan said the heart of the dispute was not whether counterfeit Tiffany jewelry should flourish on eBay, but rather, who should bear the burden of policing Tiffany's trademarks in Internet commerce. The Court said:
Policymakers may yet decide that the law as it stands is inadequate to protect rights owners in light of the increasing scope of Internet commerce and the concomitant rise in potential trademark infringement.
Nevertheless, under the law as it currently stands, it does not matter whether eBay or Tiffany could more efficiently bear the burden of policing the eBay website for Tiffany counterfeits - an open question left unresolved by this trial. Instead, the issue is whether eBay continued to provide its website to sellers when eBay knew or had reason to know that those sellers were using the website to traffic in counterfeit Tiffany jewelry. The Court finds that when eBay possessed the requisite knowledge, it took appropriate steps to remove listings and suspend service. Under these circumstances, the Court declines to impose liability for contributory trademark infringement.
While the Tiffany case deals with eBay's liability over counterfeit goods on the site, the proposed legislation deals with eBay's liability over stolen goods listed on the site.
But what is significant for both cases is that Judge Sullivan concluded that eBay is analogous to a flea market, "like those in Hard Rock Café and Fonavisa, and that it is inappropriate to compare eBay to an online classified ad service."
eBay's success in defending itself against lawsuits has been its insistence that it is a "venue only," something that might not stand up in court in the future.
eBay has made a lot of people angry - retailers, manufacturers, law enforcement, to name a few. Its chosen approach to policing its site may very well be catching up with them. Unfortunately, the honest, hard-working small businesses who depend on eBay are the ones caught in the middle.
Of course there are comments at both, and the shills are sticking out like sore thumbs.
lmao!!!
And of course you must have seen they are promoting Lorrie Norrington to president in honor of her skilfull techniques in shoe selling, confidence scams, and lies. Which is due I suppose to whatever that Ratjeef person's name is (never can remeber it and it isd not important enough for me to look)
That Lorrie Norrington situation disgrace of course trickles down over each and every ebay member who stays there to conduct any business or participate in the crooked plastic little fake rigged community dog & pony show they are running. By staying it proves that people support that behavior and have no regard for policies, rules, truthfulness or virtue in leaders... or whatever...
I doubt I have had a chance to even see a fraction of what is out there today or in the last several weeks for that matter.