Investigation concerning Nadirkitap Bilişim ve Reklamcılık AŞ was concluded (12.4.2022) (15.4.2022)

The investigation conducted upon the claim that Nadirkitap Bilişim ve Reklamcılık AŞ, which carries out intermediation services in the market for online sales of second hand books via the website called “www.nadirkitap.com”, abused its dominant position by complicating the activities of competing undertakings by means of not providing the data of seller members who want to market their products through competing intermediation service providers, in order to determine whether Nadirkitap Bilişim ve Reklamcılık AŞ violated article 6 of the Act no 4054 was concluded. 

As a result of the discussion of the file on 07.04.2022 by the Competition Board, it was decided that Nadirkitap Bilişim ve Reklamcılık AŞ abused its dominant position within the framework of article 6 of the Act no 4054 by means of preventing access to and portability of the book data which seller members upload to www.nadirkitap.com without reasonable grounds, thus the said undertaking shall be imposed administrative fines. 

Click here for the text of the pronouncement of the decision dated 07.04.2022 and numbered 22-15/273-122, the reason for which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.