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Our Blogs The BeerFiles eBay continues to flog dead horse by challenging no PayPal only ruling | eBay continues to flog dead horse by challenging no PayPal only ruling |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Saturday, 14 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 In fact, the ACCC has allowed eBay to implement the first
part of its PayPal program. From 21 May 2008, all sellers on eBay were
required to offer PayPal as one of their accepted payment methods.Does eBay think Australian shoppers are knuckle-heads that need to be forced to use PayPal for their own good? Not likely! Perhaps eBay thinks all Australians are knuckle-heads that can be forced into using a payments system that will put extra money into eBay's pockets with each transaction? More likely! Quite honestly, eBay appears to be its own worst enemy in this fiasco. eBay has already admitted that it could never implement a PayPal only program in the US - antitrust regulators would never stand for it. Yet now that it has been told by Australia's own regulator that its PayPal only plans are unacceptable, it intends to fight on. eBay only has to read its own blogs and listen to the vast array of powerful forces aligned against it in Australia (including the Reserve Bank!) to realise how unpopular and futile its PayPal only plan is. Yet eBay intends to risk destroying whatever goodwill it has left among the Australian online shopping community and fight on. No-one doubts that eBay has the biggest and best online auction site in Australia by far. What a pity the company has allowed greed to sully what is otherwise a great brand.
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