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Re: "Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust"
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 5 Feb 2000 14:56:09 GMT
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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 reporting ebaY auctions along with other sites auctions to users of
the Bidders Edge and AuctionWatch Universal Search search engines - Bidders Edge
may in fact have been the one to get the DOJ probe going
Check out their coverage at http://www.auctionwatch.com/
In lugnet.market.theory, Scott Arthur writes:
> Looks like ebay may have been up to no good - trying to cut off smaller
> auction sites. Here's the 1st and 2nd paras:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> See the story:
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> http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000204/17/ebay-investigation
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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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