The judges of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled, in a judgment delivered on Thursday 4 October (Case C-105/17), that a person publishing several sales advertisements on a website could not automatically be considered a ‘professional'.
A consumer acquired a used watch on an online sales platform, but subsequently asked the seller to terminate the sales contract due to differences between the actual product and what was presented in the sales announcement.
When the seller of...