EBay Targets Renegade Sellers

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SAN FRANCISCO — EBay Inc. is moving to limit sellers from providing hyperlinks from their Internet auctions to other Web sites, part of a broad effort to crackdown on eBay users who settle trades outside of eBay.

The San Jose, Calif., Internet auction company late Thursday notified its users that it will ban hyperlinks from eBay auction pages to independent Web sites that list items for sale outside of eBay. Sellers that violate the new policy, which will go into effect May 31, may have their auctions terminated, their eBay account suspended or have their eBay home page removed, the company said in a notice posted on its site.


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