Discourse Chronicle

Tiffany is suing eBay for allowing sellers to list and sell counterfeit Tiffany items on the site in America according to an article in the New York Times.

The newspaper suggests that if Tiffany wins its case, not only would other lawsuits follow, but eBay’s very business model would be threatened because it would be nearly impossible for the company to police a site that now has 180 million members and 60 million items for sale at any one time.

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In 2004, Tiffany secretly purchased about 200 items from eBay in its investigation of how the company was dealing with the thousands of pieces of counterfeit Tiffany jewellery. A jeweller found that three out of four pieces were fakes.

category: Popular Culture, Technology