Here it comes…
The Louis Vuitton v. eBay decision that is. It should be here on the 30th- tomorrow that is.
Are you ready?
After that amazing Candadian decision- $1 million for a fairly small fashion store (with only a couple locations)… and the $30,000 eBay had to pay Hermes last month after a decision against them in a French court for allowing 3 (yes, three) fake Hermes on the site… I’m DYING to hear what the French Courts are going to say in the Louis Vuitton lawsuit against eBay Inc.
Louis Vuitton, et al, is seeking 51 million Euro ($80 MILLION) in damages for negligence and the illicit sales of counterfeit bags on their site.
(As an aside- as someone who’s been on eBay since 1999, I will say that eBay has done a pretty good job in the last couple years at getting, I’d estimate 95% LESS fake Louis Vuitton listed on the site than they did years ago…
There was a day when the vast, vast majority of the Louis Vuitton bags listed on the site were fake. Now, the opposite is true.)
This is the part that scares me…
Part of the decision will answer perfume brands Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and Kenzo who have an issue with eBay even when they allow AUTHENTIC goods to be listed. They claim that even this is illegal because these companies hold tight control on their distribution chains and ONLY permit specialist, authorized dealers to sell their goods.
I can’t wait…
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Tags: Christian Dior, counterfeit, eBay, fake, Fakes, france, Givenchy, Guerlain, Kenzo, lawsuit, Litigation, Louis Vuitton, replica
June 29th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Hm, I don’t like that last part! Hope LV never goes that route.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:28 am
[…] Ouch… a Paris Court ordered eBay to pay $63 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for negligence in allowing the sales of counterfeit Louis Vuitton on the website. (Read more about it here…) […]
June 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
38.6 Million Euro.
$61 Million.
No matter which way you spin it, eBay execs really must feel like they woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton today won a landmark case against eBay for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods. Announcing the decision after a two-year legal process, Paris’s Tribunal de Commerce cited “grave errors” on eBay’s part.
Louis Vuitton was awarded 19.3 million Euro ($30.5 million); Christian Dior Couture received 17.4 Euro ($27.5 million) and Parfums Christian Dior, Parfums Kenzo, Guerlain and Parfums Givenchy, were awarded around 3 million Euro ($4.7 million)
Following a smaller Hermes case from June 5 – 20,000 Euro ($34,000), we are only nearing halftime in this battle, however. eBay execs immediately stated that they will appeal the court’s decision. Meanwhile, the court ordered eBay to stop selling fragrances and cosmetics from those brands immediately, or face a fine of 50,000 Euro ($79,000) per day. Furthermore, they are facing similar lawsuits from perfume giant L’Oreal for approximately 30 million Euro ($51 million) in France and from jeweler Tiffany & Co. in New York City for an undisclosed – though reportedly quite sizable – amount.