eBay bids do create binding contracts

Legal_Academic

Ever landed a bargain on eBay only for the seller to back out?

Last month an English court ruled that a contract concluded by winning a bid on eBay is legally enforceable.

A seller who backed out of a sale following a disappointing bid ended up with a judgment against her for over £650.00 (see http://www.e-sue.co.uk/recent_work.htm)

mo786uk

interesting. first time i have seen it actually taken to court - although we knew the bids were binding legally.

PZH

From the article...

However the eBay seller refused to pay, so e-sue then prepared to take a second charge over her home, resulting in an immediate bankers draft for the full amount.

:rotfl: Once bitten, twice shy perhaps... :T

George_Michael

An unsubstantiated report, no names, no ebay user id's, no location.

I would give it more credence if there were some deails shown or at least a link to a newspaper report.

Legal_Academic

George_Michael wrote: »

An unsubstantiated report, no names, no ebay user id's, no location.

I would give it more credence if there were some deails shown or at least a link to a newspaper report.

Oh ... I'm sorry you thought my posting lacked credence.

So this is the item: http://www.e-sue.co.uk/docs/eBay_ad.jpg

and this is the judgment: http://www.e-sue.co.uk/docs/eBay_Judgment.jpg

squeaky

Hi,

I'm sure that this will be of great interest to regulars on the eBay board, so I'll move the thread across there.

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botanical

Legal_Academic wrote: »

Oh ... I'm sorry you thought my posting lacked credence.

So this is the item: http://www.e-sue.co.uk/docs/eBay_ad.jpg

and this is the judgment: http://www.e-sue.co.uk/docs/eBay_Judgment.jpg

Ha Ha, well done, Legal Academic!

George_Michael

Oh ... I'm sorry you thought my posting lacked credence.

Well for a "Legal Academic", I would have thought that you would have been able to understand my earlier post.
I actually stated that I thought that the report that you linked to lacked credance and not your post itself.

An unsubstantiated report...
I would give it more credence

Now that you've shown some of the court info, I will be glad to admit that my scepticism was wrong, but I will stand by my opinion regarding your first post, in that as it was posted, it didn't prove anything.

botanical

George_Michael wrote: »

Well for a "Legal Academic", I would have thought that you would have been able to understand my earlier post.
I actually stated that I thought that the report that you linked to lacked credance and not your post itself.



Now that you've shown some of the court info, I will be glad to admit that my scepticism was wrong, but I will stand by my opinion regarding your first post, in that as it was posted, it didn't prove anything.

hahaha! You're a good sport-good try!

wealdroam

George_Michael wrote: »

I actually stated that I thought that the report that you linked to lacked credance and not your post itself.

The report that was linked to in the opening post contained links to those two documents.

Perhaps you missed them.

porto_bello

:jExcellent result! :T

This happened to me once, some years ago. Since then, the law is a lot clearer w.r.t. ebay and has tightened up considerably (notably a shill bidding case, last year).

If the same situation happened to me again, I think quoting this case should be enough to concentrate the mind of an uncooperative seller! Either that or I'll get in touch with e-sue.co.uk