Ebay Pushes EU to Change Competition Laws

September 17, 2009

By the ZippyCart Shopping Carts Content Team



Ebay wants to grow their market share in the European Union and, in an effort to help improve the laws to help them sell online, they had 750,000 Ebay users sign a petition. The petition handed to the European Parliament urges the government to reform the laws to prevent companies from blocking online sales.

Companies like Ebay and Amazon really want to expand their business operations into the European market, but these laws are preventing them from selling many brands via their online ecommerce stores.

The law in question, which Ebay feels is unjust, allows luxury goods manufacturers to decide who they want to sell their products online. The petition Ebay submitted says manufacturers should not be able to "insist that Internet retailers must have an offline retail store before they can sell online".



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