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@digital*ghost wrote:

The angle that I would be looking at this from is whether eBay can ask its sellers to comply with the terms - if they can, then they can't get into trouble for enforcing them, because by using the site once the policies are in force, a member has agreed to comply. In other words, is it ok for them to make it so that if you sell on eBay (which is voluntary), you have to be prepared to provide (let's just call them) consumer guarantees above and beyond what you would normally be required to offer. 

 

I don't know the answer to this question, but I think it's the most important one to ask at this stage.

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From my experience with the law - if the law is being broken - no User Agreement, Contract or whatever is worth the paper it is written on.

Had an instance where a Lease was drawn for agistment purposes.

The landlord had several 100 acres - agisted to a number of others also.

One lot were using the first property to get to the second - effectively the property had been leased twice.

The landlord was made put up a fence along the side of the property for ingress & egress & ordered to reduce the rent on the land lost, repair gates etc - so that the first could lock a gate & the second had their own entry.