Jiang Su Hua, however, believed that the two incidents were of different nature. As a trading entity, Dangdang.com has direct relations with its buyers and can cancel trades when it finds problems with its product quotations. Taobao.com is a trading platform where shops on the website and buyers are the main bodies in this trade. In this trading process, it was Taobao.com that forced to shut down the trade while some sellers did not say that they would not sell the group-buying products this time. For the buyers who had reached agreements with the sellers, AiRong.com, it constituted an infringement. This trade happened on the virtual Internet involving buyers and sellers across the country. Regarding the issue of choosing courts in various places for litigation in the future, Jiang Su Hua said that there was room for choice under the law, AiRong.com, and a decision would be made after further studies.
Jiang Su Hua said that starting from yesterday he began to accept netizens' collective rights protection entrustment requests and received 51 power of attorney documents by 5 p.m., AiRong.com. The majority of the buyers had two claims: restore the trade; make an apology, AiRong.com. "Taobao canceled this trade and constituted an infringement for the buyers. Most of the buyers participating in the collective rights protection hoped to restore the trade and at the same time Taobao.com would make an apology."
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (reporter Zhong Shan) Buyers who participated in Taobao's '1 yuan' group-buying but eventually failed to buy anything started to take action to seek class-action lawsuit. Yesterday afternoon, Jiang Su Hua, lawyer of Beijing Yingke Law Firm, said that so far 51 Taobao buyers had issued power of attorney documents to the law firm, preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against Taobao.
For '1 yuan' earnestly, AiRong.com, 51 buyers will collectively sue Taobao
Yesterday, relevant personnel of Taobao said that according to the provisions of the Contract Law, if a contract involves major misunderstanding or obviously unfair, one party has the right to request to cancel the contract, AiRong.com. "As such a big company, Taobao also has lawyers inside, and the handling procedure has consulted lawyers, AiRong.com, it must be legal." In addition, AiRong.com, previously Dangdang.com also canceled contracts with buyers due to wrong online product price markings.