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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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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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)
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(...) meddling/jackbootedness. I am not sure they have a case. Material hosted on eBay servers isn't free for the taking, is it? Does eBay have an obligation to make information which it has spent money gathering (the auction listings themselves) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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It's interesting to note that on AuctionWatch's own discussion forum, the vast majority of posters that I have read so far are taking eBay's side in this. (URL) is a great site for information and I highly recommend it for that. However I'm not sure (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Larry I think you'll find that the vast majority of AW posters are primarily bidders - since most sellers know that ebaY is the only viable game in town, I say right on to the DOJ and check it out before it becomes impossible for small sellers (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I remember cases like this, maybe even cases where people got real mad about it, but S@H itself normally labels these items "not available in stores" itself it its catalog - why shouldn't eBay sellers be able to do the same? Yes, it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Susan, I don't want to start a brawl with you but I disagree with several of the points you're making. You're new here, so you may not know me and my stances, which I do not hesitate to articulate, and which I do so quite vigorously. Don't take this (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have no issues with you personally either Larry and this is a civilized discussion not a "brawl" or a flame war - I am somewhat toward the libertarian view myself (I'm not dogmatic about anything except how cool the Internet and Legos are (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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"Susan Olson" <so0s@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:FpHB1t.BJ9@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) would (...) to be (...) new (...) I've said (...) Far be it from me to get in the middle of this one, law was about as far from my college major as you (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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William A. Swanberg wrote in message ... (...) thing: (...) If the DOD hadn't allowed the internet to expand beyond the government, it would have just delayed the internet for a while. By the time the internet started to be useful, Usenet was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Susan Olson wrote in message ... (...) the (...) Certainly eBay owns the format and technology that makes the listings possible. Certainly the seller owns the text used to describe the item. But certainly eBay can not be forced to give away the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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