Online auction website blocks seller’s account

The Czech online auction website Aukro has said it has blocked the account of a seller suspected of having ripped off clients for around half a million crowns (the equivalent of around 26,000 US dollars) by not delivering promised goods. These reportedly included handbags, watches and perfumes. Clients, the auction website says, are compensated for damages of up to 20,000 crowns; in this case the forty people or so who dealt with the questionable seller will be fully refunded; Aukro has not ruled out that additional cases may still emerge. The site, which has 1.8 million registered users in the Czech Republic, is also communicating with the police over the matter.