Another eBay seller caught selling misappropriated goods. The scam was being run by Thong Quoc Tran, 30 of Placentia, CA and involved his having allegedly filing more than 1,000 phony warranty claims on Cisco routers. According to the affidavit, Tran would obtain the serial numbers of routers legally purchased from Cisco by companies around the country. Tran would then buy warranties on those routers, claim they were broken, get Cisco to send him replacement parts to repair them and then resell the replacement parts sent by Cisco at a discount on eBay.

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.