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Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices (www.thedrive.com)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

I hope the case results in the list of people who bought these things being forwarded to their states' authorities.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Lol no state has extra resources to do anything. Murica!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

And where these are most popular, the police would choose not to do anything anyway.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

For me, "this is unprecedented!" sounds more like "how dare they accusing us of any wrongdoing!"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I wish that defense worked for me with the cops, LOL

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