EBAY V. BIDDER'S EDGE

eBay v. Bidder's Edge

eBay v. Bidder's Edge

Bidder's Edge (“BE”) was based in 1997 as an “aggregator” of auction listings.  Its website supplied a database of auction listings that BE mechanically assembled from diverse auction sites, encompassing eBay. Accordingly, BE's users could effortlessly seek auction listings from all through the world broad web other than having to proceed to each one-by-one auction site. (eBay v. Bidder's Edge 2000)

In early 1998, eBay permitted BE to encompass Beanie Babies and Furbies auction listings in BE's database.  It is unclear if BE scraped these listings from eBay or connected to them ...