Sellers Receive Checks as Part of $30 MLN eBay Settlement

Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2011 12:35 Written by External Post Friday, 25 November 2011 12:35

Sellers on eBay Motors began receiving checks this month that were their portion of a $30 million settlement in a class action lawsuit. Two sellers had filed a class action lawsuit against eBay in 2009 alleging that eBay charged excessive fees for listing items in the "Parts and Accessories" category. eBay settled for $30 million in November, but denied it had overcharged sellers.

The court approved the settlement in December, and sellers began receiving checks this month.

The class consists of eBay sellers who paid Final Value Fees for selling items in the vehicle-related Parts and Accessories categories on eBay Motors between April 21, 2005, and August 26, 2009. eBay Store listings were not included in the settlement.



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Google Buzz settlement gets preliminary approval

Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 12:41 Written by External Post Wednesday, 3 November 2010 12:41

Google today said that a settlement for a class action suit by Gmail users over privacy violations related to Google Buzz has been granted preliminary approval by a federal district court judge. The approval was reached on October 7 but the company
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Users Sue Google, Facebook, Zynga Over Privacy

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41 Written by External Post Saturday, 30 October 2010 12:41

Trailrunner7 writes “A raft of class action lawsuits filed in Federal court charge the globe’s biggest social networking firms with violating federal communications privacy laws, allowing advertisers to profit from personal information harvested from
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A battle over shipping rates

Last Updated on Friday, 15 October 2010 12:01 Written by a2e Friday, 15 October 2010 12:01

A lawsuit alleges that UPS and FedEx violate antitrust law by conspiring to lock in shipping rates. AFMS Logistics, the company that plans to re-file its federal complaint as early as tomorrow, seeks up to $60 million in damages.

AFMS Logistics Management Group, a shipping consultant to retailers and other shippers, has filed a complaint in federal court charging United Parcel Service of America Inc. and FedEx Corp. of antitrust violations by refusing to work with AFMS and similar firms to revise rate contracts on behalf of shipping clients.

AFMS, based in Portland, OR, charges that UPS and FedEx have “induced and persuaded” shippers not to deal with it, and that UPS and FedEx have threatened to raise the rates of any shipping clients who share their shipping data with outside consultants for the purpose of seeking re-negotiated rates from the two carriers.

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Man ordered to pay Facebook $1bn

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 06:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 6 October 2010 06:20

A Canadian man has been ordered to pay Facebook $1bn Canadian for a barrage of more than 4 million penis-enlargement ads he posted on user walls in 2008. That same year, a California court ordered Adam Guerbuez to  [1] for hacking into members’ accounts
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Google whacks Spanish TV station in court

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:01 Written by External Post Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:01

A Madrid court has thrown out copyright infringement charges brought against YouTube by Spanish TV station Telecinco. The station, owned by Silvio Berlusconi, won a previous case against Google’s video service in 2008. The court today dismissed charges
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Google tackles rogue pharmacies in court

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:00

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Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:00

eldavojohn writes “Google’s Buzz service will cost the company $8.5 million in settling a class action lawsuit related to the privacy debacle from the days after its release. Ars reports: ‘In the proposed settlement submitted to the court this week,
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FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:40

olsmeister writes “It appears the White House would like to make it easier for the FBI to obtain records of a person’s internet activities without a court order to do so, via the use of an NSL. While they have been able to this this for a long time, this
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The story behind that eBay shove

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:40

When news broke that an emerging political candidate had settled out of court with a corporate lackey over an alleged conference room fracas related to nerd neverland Second Life, we alerted our investigative team. They immediately set out to re-create
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