Student hauls auction house to court over fee
Print Edition
A STUDENT of East China University of Political Science and Law has dragged the Shanghai International Auction House to court for charging her 100 yuan (US$15) service fee to take part in an online auction for a car plate.
The Huangpu District People’s Court heard the case on Wednesday but was yet to pass a verdict.
The student, who refused to give her name, paid 100 yuan to place a bid for a car plate at the auction house in 2014. But the system was blocked. She could not place her bid for a car plate after she logged into the system again.
She found that many bidders faced the same problem and decided to file a lawsuit against the auction house. She told the court since the auction house’s system could not handle such a large number of bidders’ requests, it was unreasonable on its part to accept all the bidders for the auction. Besides, she claimed the auction house did not inform the bidders about the service fee before the auction.
She asked the court to declare the service fee as void and wanted her money returned to her.
In court, she compared the auction registration card to a contract and said there was no item about the service fee on it.
She said when she was in the auction house, she saw no obvious notification about the service fee there. The only place where the bit about service fee was mentioned was in a newspaper announcement.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
