Re: eBay plans to suck more money out of us!

B J Foster <bjfoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> B J Foster <bjfoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>>>> The accc just files those where they belong.

>>>>> And your knowledge of that derives from.....?

>>>> It isnt hard to see what they take action about, stupid.

>>> Yeah, the ACCC filed *this* one in the federal court:

>>> "$3 million penalty for Fila's selective distribution policy for
A.F.L.-licensed apparel

>>> The Federal Court today ordered penalties of $3 million against FILA
>>> S****t Oceania Pty Limited after finding that FILA's selective
>>> distribution policy for the supply of Australian Football
>>> League-licensed apparel to retailers was a breach of the Trade
>>> Practices Act 1974.

>>> Justice Heerey found that FILA had misused its market power and
>>> engaged in exclusive dealing in breach of sections 46 and 47 of the
>>> Trade Practices Act 1974. Section 46 of the Act prohibits
>>> cor****ations with a substantial degree of power in a market from
>>> taking advantage of that power to eliminate or substantially damage
>>> a competitor or to deter and prevent a person from engaging in
>>> competitive conduct.

>> Pity ebay isnt doing anything like that. Its doing nothing to its
>> competitor's auction systems.

> Pity that Ebay and Paypal are related parties & thus treated as one
'body cor****ate'.

Irrelevant to whether ebay is doing anything to stop or
even hinder the use of another competitor's auction system.

> In any case, third line forcing doesn't require the "lessening of
competition" test (as of 2004).
> http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/716809

You aint established any 'forcing' in the sense that the act proscribes.

>>> Section 47 of the Act prohibits certain types of exclusive dealing".
>>>
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/513636/fromItemId/2332

>> Which doesnt even mention what ebay is doing payment wise.

>>> Help the ACCC to help you:
>>> http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/54217#h2_38

>> Not even possible if ebay isnt in breach of the TPA.

> We shall see about that.

We will indeed. Bet the ACCC wont do a damned thing,
even try to monster ebay into reversing that policy change.

They clearly didnt when the much earlier policy change banned
the use of Western Union and that is a clear competitor of paypal's.

> There's also the question of whether Paypal can legally "take deposits"
without a banking license.

Pig ignorant lie. Paypal doesnt take deposits, ****wit.