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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;umtrr-author, post: 183638, member: 5719&quot;]Well, the deep pocketed Tiffany and Company tried to go after that Internet Auction Community in 2004:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y04/m06/i22/s01" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y04/m06/i22/s01" rel="nofollow">http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y04/m06/i22/s01</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Tiffany sued eBay &quot;alleging that the Internet auction site should be held accountable for the sale of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry through eBay.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an interesting &quot;shill bidding&quot; angle on this in a blog as well:</p><p><a href="http://www.sherlockinvestigations.com/blog/2006/01/tiffany-sues-ebay.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sherlockinvestigations.com/blog/2006/01/tiffany-sues-ebay.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sherlockinvestigations.com/blog/2006/01/tiffany-sues-ebay.html</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>(And boy, will there be a lot of &quot;bidder 1&quot; &quot;bidder 2&quot; shenanigans coming...)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not heard anything about this since it happened, and I wonder whether it ever got anywhere.&nbsp; Searching on &quot;Tiffany&quot; reveals more than 600 jewelry listings.&nbsp; All &quot;authentic&quot; of course :goofer:.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my point is that as long as &quot;caveat emptor&quot; is hung outside the &quot;door&quot; the company is safe within it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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