Pascal Marti, Legal Director Europe, eBay International

Pascal Marti,  Legal Director Europe, eBay International

In Conversation

With more choice on the horizon for eBay customers, GC sits down with Marti to discuss the legal frameworks underpinning its new payments system, as a decades long partnership with PayPal draws to a close.

Global commerce leader, eBay Inc. includes our Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds platforms. Collectively, we connect millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We claim that if there is anything you want, you can buy it on eBay. I’m not sure if that’s always true, but with approximately 1.4 billion live listings, you should be able to find what you are looking for!

The eBay website is what people are most familiar with and boasts over 180 million active buyers. It is worth noting that we are providing the platform for sellers and buyers to connect and that purchases happen between a buyer and a seller. From a legal standpoint, this distinction is important in many ways. Most notably, the underlying legal regime in Europe is very specific when it comes to the liability of online providers for the content they host.

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