Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback

Mephie writes "MSNBC is running a story on an attorney who is suing ebay over negative feedback a seller left about him. It sounds like a classic case of buyer leaves negative feedback for seller; seller responds accordingly. The plaintiff claims he'd not be filing the suit if he didn't feel ebay's policy needs revision, stating 'They can control content and for them to fail to do so is unconscionable.' Yeah. That's great."

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Similar thing in the UK

[PenguinRadio]

About six months ago in London a guy sued his credit card company for declining a charge he made. He said the decline caused him to lose face at a business dinner and since he had available funds it was wrong.

Porbably won't get very far either.

An alarming trend...

[footNipple]

This is slightly off-topic, but it bears mentioning here.

I was informed last night that at the current rate U.S. law schools are turning out lawyers, by the year 2035 it is expected that there will be more lawyers than actual people.

Really, the only thing Americans can do avert this terrible trend is to stop electing lawyers to political office :-)

while he's at it...

[inode_buddha]

any chance there's a way to get the (former) PayPal to acknowledge that I paid them a year ago with my M/C, thereby removing the restrictions on it? After all, it's had a $0 balance since May 2002...

Re:McDonalds

[march]

How hot was it? How hot is hotter than normal?

That's all BS. It doesn't get any hotter than 212 deg. F (plus or minus depending on altitude, barometric pressure, etc).

It's freaking HOT COFFEE. If you spill it, you will get burned. There should be no lawsuit for that. Period. She just paid the stupid tax. Maybe next time she'll put the coffee and cell phone down when she's driving.

Excellent reason for it

[0x0d0a]

As a company, you have to be pretty frigging dumb to sell something that can cause serious injury on contact with human skin, and have it be meant for immediate ingestion.

Simple reason -- many, if not *most* of the people that get coffee at McDonald's at the drive-through (as she did) purchase a coffee that they will drink at work when they get in.

You can always ask for it to have some cool water added.

I mean, it comes down to the fact that anyone should be expected to deal with hot beverages. I make hot cocoa that's too hot to drink frequently, and let it cool for a bit first. Soup -- same thing. Letting things that are too hot for you cool is simply something that anyone older than a very young child should be able to handle.