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Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices::The Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties.
Ebay’s response: “This is unprecedented!”; not “This is a lie!”, or “We’re not guilty!”.
If your best response is that the EPA hasn’t prosecuted you this large before, then you must be super guilty.
I hope the case results in the list of people who bought these things being forwarded to their states’ authorities.
Lol no state has extra resources to do anything. Murica!
And where these are most popular, the police would choose not to do anything anyway.
Truth. I’ve been trying to get my suit in small claims court scheduled for months now. All I can do it wait for the court to have availability.
Lol bootlicker. I don’t agree with their purchases by anymeans but fuck snitching to the government , an arguably more corrupt system than private sector ecommerce
eBay has always sold shady stuff. They only stop when they get lots of pressure about a certain thing they’re allowing. I used to buy $5 Windows 10 keys on there but they haven’t sold them recently.
For me, “this is unprecedented!” sounds more like “how dare they accusing us of any wrongdoing!”
You can read there response here: https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-issues-statement-responding-to-us-department-of-justice-lawsuit/
Basicly its “we are doing the best we can”
I wish that defense worked for me with the cops, LOL