Comments on: Seller sues customer over accurate eBay feedback https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/seller-sues-customer-accurate-ebay-feedback/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 03 May 2013 15:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Henry Crun https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/seller-sues-customer-accurate-ebay-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-208111 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:33:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37599#comment-208111 From the ebay ebsite

“Sellers can’t require buyers to leave specific Feedback or detailed seller ratings. Sellers also can’t demand that buyers revise existing Feedback or detailed seller ratings. This applies to all Feedback activity, whether it happened before, during or after delivery of items or services described in the original listing.

Make sure you follow these guidelines. If you don’t, you may be subject to a range of actions, including Feedback removal, limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.”

The company may well have breached ebay rules.

]]> By: Mike https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/04/seller-sues-customer-accurate-ebay-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-207967 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:06:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37599#comment-207967 Yup. Back in the 1990’s the parents of an attorney friend of mine were sued because a young boy had wandered onto the Long Island Railroad tracks (which ran behind their house and adjacent houses) and gotten burned on the third rail. Only flaw: the boy had gotten access to the tracks through a different person’s yard, nearly 1/8 of a mile away, and and sustained his injuries on the tracks behind that house. The parents were completely uninvolved in the accident; the police report did not mention them at all. The law firm (probably the biggest and most well known PI firm in Suffolk County at the time) refused to withdraw against the parents, even though they acknowledged that they had picked the wrong defendants. My friend was forced to do a motion, and the court refused to find the claim frivolous. Result for the parents? They got motion costs, a few hundred bucks. If they had not had a son who was a practicing attorney, it would have cost them about $1,000 for this result (more today, of course) .

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