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"Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust"
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 14:47:23 GMT
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Looks like ebay may have been up to no good - trying to cut off smaller
auction sites. Here's the 1st and 2nd paras:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is investigating whether eBay Inc.,
the world's largest online auction site, violated federal antitrust laws in
its actions toward smaller Internet rivals.
The probe, which has been underway since December but still is in its early
stages, is focused on eBay's attempts - including a federal lawsuit against
one competitor and threats to sue another - to prevent smaller Web companies
from listing on their own sites items being auctioned by eBay's customers.
See the story:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000204/17/ebay-investigation
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: "Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust"
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| AuctionWatch, a really good site that has both an online magazine that follows online auctions as well as a universal search engine and Bidders Edge have been in a legal fracas with ebaY over ebaY's attempts to keep these two search engines from (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: "Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust"
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| <RANT> After reading the article mentioned, the other messages in this thread, and some of the thread referenced at Auction Watch, I must say that I just don't understand where the anti-trust violations are. Granted, eBay is the dominant player in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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