Parisian court fines eBay

by Sylvie Barak on 1 December 2009, 10:20

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Restrictive distribution

But Alex von Schirmeister, eBay France's general manager was not putting up with any such snobbery, claiming both the injunction and the fines were "an abuse of 'selective distribution,'" and that they effectively enforced "restrictive distribution contracts, which is anti-competitive."

Optimistically, Schirmeister said France's higher courts would "overturn this ruling," as eBay had done a fair bit to comply with the injunction and had also won several legal battles over similar issues in Britain, Germany, Belgium, the US and France too.

LVMH, however, stuck to its gold encrusted guns, insisting that its "selective distribution" was actually the whole reason for the brand's "worldwide success."

And here we are thinking the success was just down to rich women with bad taste buying overpriced bags. Our bad.



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Another example of the law lagging behind technology and innovation (or French protectionism vs innovation). Smacks of the whole grey/parallel import debate and Ebay should take this all the way to the European Court and see how it turns out. Should be most interesting.
Here's what eBay needs to do, ban *.fr, problem goes away, no paying fines required. When the French wants to stop being backwards rejects, then they can remove the ban.

See, every problem has a deceptively simple solution.
to true ebay should say. ok then and lay off its french staff move to germany and continue trading in france from there. and not pay the fine. as far as i know then ebay would not be liable to pay the fine
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See, every problem has a deceptively simple solution.
O RLY?

Show me a Higgs Boson(1), and how I can observe one at will. :D


Sorry, Aidan, couldn't resist. ;)



(1) = A genuine, actually, real-life one, not a model, graphical representation, illustration etc.
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O RLY?

Show me a Higgs Boson(1), and how I can observe one at will. :D

All you need is one guillotine, a Frenchman to ‘operate’ it, chuck his head in the LHC, and watch the big bang! :lol: