eBay has filed suit against Digital Point Solutions, best known as the owner of one of the more popular web site owner communities, and others over an alleged cookie stuffing scheme.
According to the filing lodged in the Northern California District Court, Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear that their companies should be paid commissions on eBay affiliate sales.
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Yesterday, eBay secured an important legal victory after New York District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled the online auction service actually did do enough to thwart the sale of counterfeit jewelry.
The battle between Tiffany and eBay started four years ago in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and has ended with a decision stating it’s the responsibility of manufacturers to police counterfeit goods sold through eBay.
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eBay has won a major legal victory today, after a federal judge ruled that Tiffany was not able to prove the online auction company was responsible for the sale of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its Web site.
The 2004 lawsuit brought by Tiffany in U.S. District Court in New York and the ruling in eBay’s favor could influence how business is done online.
Tiffany claimed that eBay ignored the sale of fake Tiffany silver jewelry on its site. eBay said the jeweler did not participate in eBay programs that help brand owners prevent fraud.
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eBay Australia has officially dropped its proposal to move to a PayPal only system in the country.
eBay’s decision comes after sellers expressed their anger last week at a conference held by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the company’s plans to only accept PayPal on the site.
The new plan would have forced sellers to pay fees to PayPal Australia on top of the fees they pay to eBay.
After the conference, eBay said it would continue to allow sellers to accept other payment methods, but they had to offer PayPal as an option.
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eBay users everywhere were pleased when the company gave up on making PayPal the only allowable payment option in Australia. But Hitwise has taken a look at the company’s standing on that continent, underlining what was (and may still be) at stake within its borders.
eBay does pretty well as a part of Hitwise’s Shopping & Classifieds category, receiving about 29 percent of all hits. Sandra Hanchard notes, “Visits to the online Auctions industry are in fact particularly high in Australia. Auctions websites accounted for 38.11% of visits to all Shopping & Classifieds websites in May 2008 in Australia, compared to 21.35% by U.S. Internet users.”
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PayPal has revised its policy concerning international transactions under Section 4.3 of the PayPal users agreement that goes into effect July 9, 2008.
PayPal spokesman Michael Oldenburg told WebProNews that eBay was not requiring all international shippers to accept PayPal. The policy states that if eBay sellers accept PayPal, they are required to accept it for all transactions, for domestic and international payments.
Specifically under section 4.3 of the PayPal user agreement sellers who offer PayPal as a payment method in their eBay listings must follow these requirements:
a. Accept PayPal if the eBay listing includes PayPal as a payment method.
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With a new application framework entering open beta early next year, eBay is working to build a kind of ‘open’ market for both developers and vendors to earn money, as a key eBay developer told Techachino Tuesday.
A private beta of eBay’s Project Echo will commence in Q4 2008, limited to participation among five ISVs including research tools provider Terapeak and CRM service provider Hosted Support. That will be followed by an open beta early next year and commercial availability by mid-year. This news Tuesday from Kumar Kandaswamy, senior director for platform strategy of the eBay Developers Program, in a briefing for Techachino.
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Companies generally don’t comment on rumor or speculation—that’s the blogosphere/news media’s job. The speculation du jour, which seems very likely born of non-buyer’s remorse, is that Microsoft is eyeing—or should eye—an acquisition of eBay or, at least, PayPal and/or Skype.
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Or not. But it wasn’t that long ago, when it was becoming abundantly clear Google was busting the search block, that analysts and investors started pushing Microsoft to make a bid for Yahoo just because it made a lot of sense. As soon as MS got its ducks in a row* with the Office update and the release of Vista, that’s pretty much what they did.
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eBay is requiring global sellers to increasingly accept its PayPal payment service. In the U.S. eBay is forcing sellers who ship internationally to accept international PayPal transactions under Section 4.3 of the PayPal users agreement that goes into effect July 9, 2008.
All sellers in the UK are required to accept PayPal in all of their listings and eBay is challenging government regulators in Australia over its plan to move to a PayPal only system in that country.
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Skype’s not doing too badly these days. As it stands, though, Skype has little to do with eBay’s core business, and so it may get sold in the relatively near future.
“What we’re testing this year are the synergies,” said John Donahoe, eBay’s new CEO, to the Financial Times. “If the synergies are strong, we’ll keep it in our portfolio. If not, we’ll reassess it.”
This decision is interesting, to say the least; after many, many problems, Skype’s revenue has shot up, and its user base is huge. John Oates observed that eBay appears to be “[i]mplementing [a] buy high, sell low strategy.”
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