eBay Hit with Class Action Lawsuit for Forcing Sellers to Use PayPal
A lawsuit seeking class action status was recently filed in The United States District Court for the Northern District of California against eBay, Inc. for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive business practices. The suit was filed on July 25, 2007 by Jeffery Enebely, an eBay seller since 2000 and residing in Oakland, California, according to the Complaint.
Specifically, the allegations center around eBay’s monopolistic behavior in the marketplace and its use of that position to force sellers and buyers to use PayPal. Also at issue is the exclusion of Google Checkout from eBay, which the suit contends is unjust and unfair.
Additional information about the lawsuit, including a copy of the actual court filings, can be accessed on our Other Lawsuits page. The docket number is 5:07-CV-03803-PVT.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am
paypal just took $12,000.00 from us, heres our page!
cool deals 2 go
http://www.hostitplanet.com/paypal_blocked_us_from_our_funds.htm
our little story.
On 11/29/07 after we listed 2 very successful products on eBay from time period 10/28/2007 as user cooldeals2go and generated over 24,000.00 in sales for a four week period, PayPal, Inc., restricted access to our funds (which we cannot transfer $11,999.69 USD in funds to our bank account) and had eBay close/suspend our account cooldeals2go.
we were not selling any items that are illegal and our products were downloadable from the Internet and did not break any copyright violations AND WHERE selfmade.
we did notify PayPal, Inc., by phone to prior to 11/15/2007 to to let them know to expect an increase in sales so they would be provided with what we were selling, we also own http://www.hostitplanet.com and http://www.hostitplanet.com and reconfirmed them about our sales for website hosting, we specificly told them to document it!. Therefore we felt we were clear with notifying them, also the restriction has caused eBay to suspend our account which means loosing an estimated amount of $3,000.00 in sales per day and the inability to send products to our customer totaling around $2,500.00. We have contacted PayPal,Inc. 9 times in a 4 day period from the time they restricted us, and supplied all requested information which we can verify we sent. and then they pulled the no appeal crap.
we can proove via screen shot to the items we submitted we have also some disputes from October that PayPal, Inc., has neglected to deal with for over a month.
oops they finally did, but they has not started on Novembers!
Now if anyone has an invite for us to get some help that would be great!!, because we did nothing wrong with any policy. and paypal requested a credit check without our permision! which they are liable for,