Counterfeit goods on eBay by Zuzana Fabcinova

eBay.com is a website that creates a place for people selling and buying various goods. It is probably the most popular on-line auction and shopping website, as in addition to its original American domain it has established localized websites in about 30 other countries all over the world, in Australia, Argentina, India, Poland, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, just to name a few.eBay sells miscellaneous items, in fact almost everything you can imagine. Vehicles, furniture, collectibles, computers. Sometimes rather unusual objects are sold. Brussels sprouts left over from Christmas dinner, a single cornflake, a partially eaten, 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich claimed to bear an image of the Virgin Mary, water that was said to have been left in a cup Elvis Presley once drank from. From time to time, people go even further and try to sell sundry peculiarities. Like a man from UK, who put his wife for sale, group of four men, who auctioned themselves to spend a weekend promising good fun and laugh or a guy, who tried to sell his own kidney.A problem is, that eBay only is a host for all these sellers and buyers and really can not control all offered items. That is what occasionally causes difficulties and makes eBay rather controversial company. For instance, in May 2000 Kenneth Walton sold an oil painting for $135,805, due to pretending having poor knowledge of the origin of the painting, but speculating that it might be an artwork of Californian modernist Richard Diebenkorn. Forgeries and frauds are nothing rare. Actually, eBay was convinced of selling counterfeit goods yesterday and ordered to pay 20,000 euros jointly with the woman who auctioned imitations of Hermes bags.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080604/bs_afp/franceluxurypiracytrialusebay;_ylt=AtT1U0BZW1LBO2fqesTDgOKs0NUE

by Zuzana Fabcinova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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