Category Archives: E-Commerce Law

E-commerce – most retailers fail to make any money!

Wow – every so often I come across a study which is simply amazing. A new study on e-commerce by Opinion Business Research of 250 retailers found that whilst  80% of those surveyed had some type of online presence,  53% … Continue reading

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An end to EU e-commerce obstacles?

Despite containing 500 million consumers and 200  million separate businesses, remarkably only a fraction of e-commerce transactions in the European Union are conducted across national borders. Not least of the obstacles to Europewide e-commerce are 27 different consumer protection laws, consumer protection … Continue reading

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Who reads terms and conditions?!

I’ve been tidying my office today (finally) and come across a funny bit of research undertaken by Gamestation – on April Fool’s Day, they inserted a clause into their standard T&Cs which said that the customer granted them the option … Continue reading

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