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German Court Reverses eBay Shopper's Conviction

         

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6:12 pm on Sep 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

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A German court on Friday overturned the conviction of a man who was found guilty of purchasing stolen goods over eBay in a case which may have hurt the online auctioneer's business in its top market after the United States.

A state court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe ruled in favour of the 47-year-old software engineer because he had not known that a car navigation system he bought over eBay two years ago had been stolen, a spokesman for the court said.

German Court Reverses eBay Shopper's Conviction [news.yahoo.com]

Here guvnor' buy this brand new item for less than a third the price you get it elsewhere!

Dabrowski

12:17 pm on Sep 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Quite right, no matter how cheap this guy wasn't to know it was stolen, the blame should entirely go to the seller.

It's not as if he bought it from a guy in the pub with a strangely lumpy overcoat was it?