The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry conducted upon the claim that DSM Grup Danışmanlık İletişim ve Satış Ticaret AŞ violated article 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition with exclusionary practices in the market for platform services providing intermediation for online sale of second hand products by favoring its service DOLAP, which carry out activities in the market for platform services providing intermediation for online sale of second hand products, through sharing consumer data and by preventing the transfer of the data used by the sellers in DOLAP service to competing platforms. 

After discussing the information and documents acquired and observations made during the preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 26.05.2022, the Competition Board concluded that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision no 22-24/385-M to initiate an investigation about DSM Grup Danışmanlık İletişim ve Satış Ticaret A.Ş. in order to determine whether it violated article 6 of the Act no 4054.

*Investigation decisions taken by the Competition Board are announced to the public after the decision is notified to the undertakings or associations of undertakings about which an investigation has been initiated. Those announcements are made within the framework of informing the public about the decisions of the Competition Board and cannot be interpreted to mean that the undertakings or associations of undertakings about which an investigation has been initiated violated the Act no 4054, or they are or will be subject to penal sanctions under the Act.