eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of poaching sellers

As Amazon continues its rise as the world’s largest online marketplace, rival eBay charges that it got there by crossing a legal line.eBay filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Wednesday alleging it fraudulently poached its high-value sellers by infiltrating an internal messaging system called M2M, In the filing, Ebay says its rival is “unwilling to fairly compete for third party seller business.”eBay says the Amazon “scheme” violated its user agreement policies and “induced eBay sellers to do the same.”“Amazon’s misuse of eBay’s M2M system has been coordinated, targeted, and designed to inflict harm on eBay,” the complaint reads. “Indeed, one of the Amazon sales representatives who participated in this scheme described the team he worked on as a ‘hunter/recruiter team which actively searches for sellers we believe can do well on the [Amazon] platform.'”