For the first time eBay have been held responsible for the items sold on its websites. A FRENCH court has ruled that eBay are directly responsible for what is sold on their website and has ordered ebay to pay $30,000 to luxury goods designer Hermes for their role in the sale of three counterfeit handbags……..
eBay live auctions may be dead but, unlike those auctioneers and businesses who spent the last five years building ebay’s equity and who built a dependence on ebay’s good will; the traditional auctioneers who moved with the times and invested in their own web presence are seeing good returns on that investment………