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Re: Fair Lego Seller's site?
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:20:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, "Richard Franks"
<spontificus@__no_spam_please_im_veggie__yahoo.com> writes:

Reason #17 that I recieved from ended@ebay.com for cancelling an auction:

17. LINKS TO OTHER AUCTION SERVICES: eBay does not allow the listing of
auctions which include links (static or live) to other online auction
services.

Eeeek -- IANAL, but that sounds anti-competitive -- in the Sherman Antitrust
Act sense of the phrase...

--Todd




So calling it www.auctioninfo.com would perhaps not be beneficial to the cause!
It's a nice idea, but from judging the hassle that Larry P went through with
eBay, you'll have to spend a *lot* of time making it squeaky-clean. So that if
someone you blacklist does complain then links to the site won't be banned!

Something like trustedsellers.com is probably less risky?

Richard



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(...) Antitrust (...) Probably not. If eBay was a brick-and-mortar establishment they'd be well within their rights to disallow advertising for competitors on premises (sp?). Will (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.general)

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Reason #17 that I recieved from ended@ebay.com for cancelling an auction: 17. LINKS TO OTHER AUCTION SERVICES: eBay does not allow the listing of auctions which include links (static or live) to other online auction services. So calling it (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.general)

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