Ebay's Egregious Actions Towards Small Sellers

[Richard Vernadeau]

There's a great deal going on inside ebay that is of questionable legality. In the 10/26/13 User Agreement update, ebay granted itself permission to hide a seller's item listing from site visibility using unrevealed criteria (Ina Steiner wrote a great story on this which one can Google). That's a violation of a seller's REASONABLE EXPECTATION. The reason a seller pleaces a listing on ebay is because they they have the reasonable expectation that it will actually be shown in order to sell it. Ebay is also engaging in TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE between the seller and his potential customer(buyer). Then there is the double-standard ebay uses in terms of the the DSR (Detailed Seller Ratings) system whereby small sellers are penalized, restricted or suspended over 2 or 3 low DSR ratings while the big box retailers and Chinese are immune from this. This is almost certainly a BREACH OF CONTRACT (assuming the constantly changing User Agreement can even be considered a contract). Then there are the seller purges whereby thousands of small sellers were suspended from ebay over the past weeks and months (many were only out of compliance by 1 DSR star, and ebay has admitted to a glitch/malfunction on the automatic five-star rating on shipping which has existed for a year and not been fixed- Ina Steiner did a good story on this issue as well one can also Google). It just goes on and on. Where is Michael Moore or John Stossel? Where are the government regulatory agencies?