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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26653961, member: 104064&quot;]I just received an email from ebay informing me that they&#039;ve updated their user agreement, and this line got my attention: &quot;We clarified the scope of the class action waiver.&quot; My thoughts immediately went to their ignoring of counterfeit coins being sold on their platform. So I decided to browse that section, and it make me chuckle. </p><p><br /></p><p>In section 19 &quot;Legal Disputes&quot; B.3. you are waiving your right to be included in any class action. All claims are on an individual basis. They must be resolved through arbitration, but B.7. &quot;in the event that there are 25 or more individual Demands of a substantially similar nature&quot; they will &quot;administer the arbitration demands in batches of 100.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>This sounds like &quot;class action arbitration&quot;, which is why I chuckled. You can&#039;t participate in a class action lawsuit, but they can dump you into an arbitration class of up to 100. Not being a lawyer, it all sounds wonky to me. It seems designed to shield themselves from a large punitive damages award over their practice of ignoring the sale of counterfeit coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259</a> has all the gory details. I&#039;m not sure what changed with this update but I wasn&#039;t aware that I&#039;ve agreed to not being allowed to participate in a class action. Perhaps others weren&#039;t aware of that either. Those things have mostly never netted me more than a few bucks anyway, although one against AVG anti-virus software did net me $148 last year (they sold personal information without permission). If you disagree with this, you can delete your ebay account. Yay![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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