互联网二手交易领域惩罚性赔偿的适用及其规制

The Application and Regulation of Punitive Damages in the Field of Internet Second-hand Trading

近年来,随着互联网经济的迅速发展,"互联网+"的形式也融入进二手交易领域,出现了闲鱼、转转、拍拍等二手交易平台,盘活了人们手中闲置的资源。但实践中,二手交易的乱象也层出不穷,一些不良商家利用二手平台的法律灰色地带,"挂着羊头卖狗肉"。虽然《消费者权益保护法》明确规定了惩罚性赔偿制度,但其适用的主体是经营者,出现问题之后交易人常常以不是经营者主体进行抗辩,以此逃避法律的规制。文章以闲鱼二手交易平台为例,分析惩罚性赔偿制度的适用及存在的问题,对二手平台提出规范建议,以维护共享经济的稳定发展,净化互联网二手市场交易空间。

In recent years,with the rapid development of the Internet economy,the form of"Internet+"has also been integrated into the field of second-hand trading.The emergence of second-hand trading platforms,such as"Idle Fish","Turning"and"Patting",revitalizes people idle resources.However,in practice,the chaos of second-hand transactions also emerge in endlessly.Some bad businesses use the legal gray area of second-hand platform to cheat customers.Although"Consumer Protection Law"clearly stipulates the system of punitive damages,the subject of its application is the operator.When problems arise,the trader often defends by not being the operator to evade the regulation of the law.Taking"Idle Fish"second-hand trading platform as an example,this paper analyzes the application and problems of punitive compensation system,and puts forward normative suggestions for second-hand platform,so as to maintain the stable development of sharing economy and purify the trading space of Internet second-hand market.