{"id":19568,"date":"2010-04-07T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T19:04:20","slug":"afp-report-court-finds-ebay-guilty-of-negligence-in-power-seller-fraud-case-buyer-awarded-22000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/afp-report-court-finds-ebay-guilty-of-negligence-in-power-seller-fraud-case-buyer-awarded-22000\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP Report: Court Finds eBay &#8220;Guilty of Negligence&#8221; In Power Seller Fraud Case, Buyer Awarded $22,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/afp-report-court-finds-ebay-guilty-of-negligence-in-power-seller-fraud-case-buyer-awarded-22000\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19571\" title=\"eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-x380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-x380-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Per a report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/afpcom\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a>, an Austrian court has found eBay to be guilty of negligence in a case about a buyer who used the auction site to purchase gold from an eBay &#8220;Power Seller&#8221; dealer, which he never received.\u00a0 The news organization reports that eBay was aware of the seller having a police record in Germany for fraud prior to the buyer&#8217;s transaction, yet advertised the dealer as a &#8220;Power Seller&#8221; on the site, and thus a trustworthy vendor, in spite of its knowledge as well as complaints from buyers about delivery issues.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Power Seller&#8221;, ML Agentur, has since gone bankrupt.\u00a0 The Austrian who made the purchase on eBay in September 2007 never received the ingots after making payment.\u00a0 Per the AFP report, the seller &#8220;<em>ML Agentur reported monthly sales of more than 400,000 euros in 2007, of which eBay would have received a percentage<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The article states, &#8220;<em>eBay advertised the company as a &#8220;power seller&#8221;, a particularly trustworthy vendor according to the auction site&#8217;s own criteria, despite complaints, notably regarding its times of delivery<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>the court said the auction site had been aware of ML Agentur&#8217;s record before the gold bar transaction was made and was therefore guilty of negligence<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100407\/tc_afp\/austriainternetebayauctiontrial\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100407\/tc_afp\/austriainternetebayauctiontrial\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19569 aligncenter\" title=\"eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-Yahoo-Portal-x500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-Yahoo-Portal-x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-Yahoo-Portal-x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2010\/04\/eBay-Guilty-Fraud-Austria-Germany-Gold-Bar-Power-Seller-Court-Case-Yahoo-Portal-x500-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, I published an article in reaction to a Q&amp;A with Philip Weiss and his opinion that eBay does a &#8220;<em>good job policing themselves<\/em>&#8221; (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/03\/editorial-reaction-to-whats-hot-in-hollywood-collectibles-article-by-the-seattle-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial: Reaction To \u201cWhat\u2019s Hot In Hollywood Collectibles\u201d Article By The Seattle Times<\/a>), which includes links to other court cases brought against eBay for issues including complaints by luxury goods companies that eBay supports the sale of counterfeit goods as well as a recent story in which buyers were taken for millions of dollars in a fake golf goods scam using the auction site.<\/p>\n<p>Past articles published by the Original Prop Blog related to other legal disputes and court proceedings can be found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/category\/news-events\/paypal-ebay-policy\/legal-disputes-court-rulings\/\" target=\"_blank\">the portal below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/category\/news-events\/paypal-ebay-policy\/legal-disputes-court-rulings\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25356 aligncenter\" title=\"The-Original-Prop-Blog-News-Coverage-eBay-Legal-Disputes-Court-Rulings-Judgments-Portal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2011\/07\/The-Original-Prop-Blog-News-Coverage-eBay-Legal-Disputes-Court-Rulings-Judgments-Portal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2011\/07\/The-Original-Prop-Blog-News-Coverage-eBay-Legal-Disputes-Court-Rulings-Judgments-Portal.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2011\/07\/The-Original-Prop-Blog-News-Coverage-eBay-Legal-Disputes-Court-Rulings-Judgments-Portal-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason DeBord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per a report from the AFP, an Austrian court has found eBay to be guilty of negligence in a case about a buyer who used the auction site to purchase gold from an eBay &#8220;Power Seller&#8221; 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