eBay Buyer Sued For Leaving Negative Feedback on $6.44 Item

[novakjr]

Maybe someone should take a closer look at the seller, selling bootleg copies of tv shows. He had at least 2 negs for "The Wonder Years" and "Batman" being bootlegs instead of official copies..

[drc]

You can give a negative if you want. That's just your opinion, and opinions, even if not entirely lucid or rational, are generally perfectly legal. Now, if you purposely lied in the comment that could be different. Like if you lied and said the seller purposely did something really bad, and perhaps illegal, like made and sold you a forgery or stole the money.

If this case is as the buyer says (I said if, as I take local news reports with a large grain of salt-- especially when the article interviews just one side in a dispute), his comments sounded reasonable. I suspect most sellers would view them as reasonable.