A handbag? eBay is going to have to be more earnest (Guardian Unlimited)

A French court last week ordered eBay to pay €38.8m (£30.6m) in damages to the luxury products group LVMH for letting fake versions of its designer bags be sold on the online auction site. The case was brought on two separate grounds – that eBay’s measures to stop counterfeit goods being sold in 2006 were inadequate and it allowed genuine, but unauthorised, sales of certain perfume brands. …

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