[LINK] [Link] eBay planning to shut down local competition - Oztion

[Craig Sanders]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:46:40PM +1000, stewart carter wrote:
> Like many other Linkers no doubt, I enjoy trading on eBay.
> 
> But eBay's plans, such as its plan to lock-out any competitors to its
> wholly-owned PayPal subsidiary, are growing increasingly ugly.
> 
> The ACCC has now published an account of a hitherto unpublicized meeting
> it had earlier this month with the head of the Professional eBay Sellers
> Alliance.
> 
> He told the ACCC eBay plans to sue local company, Oztion, "and ensure
> they are shut down"  if they ever grow big enough to provide any real
> competition.

interesting info.  will make good reading.

> To find the document on the ACCC web-site go to the Public Registers,
> select 'authorizations and notifications registers', then 'exclusive
> dealings notifications', then click on the eBay link and choose 'ACCC
> correspondence.'

you know, there are these weird things called Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs). they're kind of a short-cut so you don't have to give long and
convoluted directions for finding a document.

for example, URLs for the various stages of the directions in your
paragraph above would be:

"ACCC web-site":
http://www.accc.gov.au/

"Public Registers":
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/3673

"authorizations and notifications registers":
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/6031

"exclusive dealings notifications":
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/776499

"the ebay link":
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/823668/fromItemId/776499

and finally, "ACCC Correspondence":
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/823668/fromItemId/776499/display/acccCorrespondence


craig

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