EBay Sues Amazon, Alleging Criminal Conspiracy in Recruiting Sellers

Managers created fake accounts to engage the rival's vendors, according to the complaint

Ecommerce platform eBay has filed a lawsuit against three Amazon managers after it says the defendants created fake eBay member accounts to access its internal email system to “solicit many hundreds of eBay sellers.”

The complaint lists the following defendants: Sonja Boch, Amazon’s head of global seller recruitment and success; Amanda Sullivan Hedger, account executive at Amazon Advertising; and Ernest Arambula, a sales manager for Amazon Business. However, the filing notes the ecommerce platform plans to “amend its complaint to add additional managers who were involved to the case … once it learns their identities.”

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