Ebay

[guest40]

Knowing how well some of you are in holding E Bay and PayPal in high esteem, on the national television news, Oz is being used a a guinea pig for the local market and the results will affect the rest of the world.

E bay has introduced a scheme of "pay pal "only for transactions netting them millions of $A  by eliminating cheques and other forms of payment.
The locals (up to 5 million) are up in arms over the "greedy"  E bay.

Ebay reckon its a security measure.

Anybody seriously selling via Ebay may want to "let them know how you feel about this if it will effect your dealings with them.

[Steve H]

I noticed recently that I had to offer Paypal payment because of my low feedback count (97). So I suppose this is a step in that direction.

[Andy M]

I doubt they can insist on Paypal under the banking or competition regs. The court case would be interesting.

I had this conversation with the wedding venue. They don't accept personal cheques, which is fine as these are in effect an unsecured IOU. They charge 6% for credit cards and are allowed to because that's what AMEX/VISA etc. charge them. They accept a bankers cheque because they choose to and charge nothing for a debit card because it's like cash. They accept cash because they have a contract and any court in the country would say they were taking the **** if they claimed non-payment after I offered a wad of fifties! They don't want the pile of paper but they really have to take it.

I think E-bay would get stung if they went any further than making it harder to not use Paypal than use it.

Andy

[bullet350]

 it could be the work of higher forces.

all paypal payments leave a trail of evidence for the tax man!

i don't think that there is a government in the world that would turn down the offer of quite a few million quid extra.
however much they get they can easily fritter away twice as much with no visible benifits!

also paypal is e-bay owned, so its a bit like running a shop where you only accept money printed by you (a tenner costs you £12 and so on).

i rarely use debit or credit cards as i don't want 'the man' knowing everything i do.
i'm not doing anything dodgy i just don't want them tracking me.

bullet350
(getting more cynical by the day)