Hi there and welcome to the home of the Consumer Choice campaign. We’ll be adding more to the site over the coming weeks, but in the meantime have a read about what we are campaigning for.

The campaign has been started by online marketplace, eBay, because we think it’s wrong that current EU law gives companies permission to stop people from buying and selling legitimate products online – whether they’re new or second-hand.

We asked people from across Europe whether they also thought this was unfair: more than 750,000 agreed with us by signing our online petition which we presented to the European Parliament at an event on Thursday 16th September.

The event sent a powerful message to EU politicians and policy-makers. Small businesses that sell through eBay spoke of the intimidating tactics adopted by certain brands to try to stop them earning a living.  A number of MEPs attending the event joined our calls for the EU to update its laws so they are relevant for the internet age but so that consumers can always access greater choice and value by shopping online.

Please watch our film (embedded above) which tells you what the campaign is all about in 60 seconds.

We’ll be posting some video footage shot at the launch event over the coming days. In the meantime subscribe to our RSS feed for latest campaign news and updates.