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Ebay has decided to go Paypal only in Australia from next month. So no more direct bank transfers, sending cash pretty much anything other than Paypal.
It's only a trial at this stage and Australia is being used as a test bed. Already it has attracted condemnation from buyers and sellers and rightly so.
It's a sad day.
EBay under RBA pressure | Australian IT
meh, its just a company tracking all transfers and has a nice secondary feature of generating more profits for itself. Remember, everyone wants cash, just look at google.
good chance they will get slapped with a competition notice fat lot fo the good that will do "cough"telstra"cough".
may be someone will start up something similar to eBay and give them some competition for a change as eBay keeps alienating more and more people
so instead of trying to rake in as much money as they can they will actually think about us sellers and buyers first
i just noticed they started counting all the neutral feedback like negative too which means every large sellers percent rating has been dropped
trading post? :P
i bet it was more paypal's decision than it was ebay's. ebay would have to have forseen this, but decided paypals money was better than the consumers happiness :P
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Supposedly Google have their own payment system and biding site but I cant remember what they called it or weather it is released yet.
And Google been Ebays competition they will not use paypal at all. It will get more interesting none the less and eventually the consumer will win.
GBuy i think it is called.
It's called Google Checkout and it looks as though you can only use credit card.
Google Checkout - Place to Shop
google checkout is just for buyers though
i also read somewhere that ebay/paypal will now cover you not only if you deal with someone in UK, USA, and Canada but a bunch of other countries too so horray for that at least
The main problem with eBay at the moment is that amount of scamming that occurs on the site, and they haven't been able to completely contain it. They know that they need to stop it or the site become unpopular. They've tired that with the Feedback system, but that only leaves really dedicated scammer to game the system.
This looks like another attempt to reduce the amount of scamming, by restricting and controlling all money transactions to help make everyone feel safer when using the site. However all it really does is create a monopoly and forces upon fees that just becomes too costly for people to come out with a decent profit, or bargain.
Next they'll be offering an escrow service, where all goods and transactions go to them for verification once people figure out how to game Paypal.
Ebay should not make money out of Paypal.
ACCC to eBay: DENIED
eBay fighting ACCC decision
eBay to fight ACCC PayPal ruling - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23962517-15306,00.html
Interesting - although they are dropping plans to make it paypal only, they've still decided to keep the already implemented forced requirement for all sellers to offer paypal.
As a buyer I perfer to use paypal, but from a sellers perspective, why should they force you to offer a payment method that costs you more?
Ebay got nailed hardover in Europe recently too, something about letting people sell fake designer bags and turning the blind eye.