Friday, October 19, 2018

eBay is suing Amazon over allegedly poaching its third-party sellers

After accusing Amazon of conducting a campaign to poach its third-party sellers, eBay has filed a lawsuit in California to ban the competitor from misusing its platform, per The Wall Street Journal. eBay first sent a cease and desist letter to Amazon earlier this month claiming its employees were using eBay’s messaging feature to try to hire away third-party sellers for Amazon Marketplace, the e-commerce giant’s competing sellers platform.

At the time, Amazon said it was “conducting a thorough investigation of these allegations.” Now, according to the WSJ, eBay is suing Amazon in Santa Clara county with the intent of banning its employees from ever misusing eBay’s messaging platform. eBay is also seeking unspecified damages as monetary...

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