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eBay Bans Google Payments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the credit-no-good-here dept.

whoever57 writes "eBay has added Google Checkout to the list of payment options banned on eBay. A recent update to the Accepted Payments Policy includes Google Checkout (click on 'Show' next to 'Some Examples' to reveal the list). More comments on this action can be found at the eBay Strategies Blog."

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  1. Seems like something like this happened before... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It seems like something like this happened before...

    I remember a certain OS and a certain company bundling a certain web browser with their OS and trying to make a certain other web browser incompatible.

    And yes, I am certain about this.

  2. In Other News . . . . by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Department Store A doesn't accept charge cards from other department stores. Slashdotters speculate that Department Stores B and C will sue for illegal monopolistic practices.

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    It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  3. Re:Oh! Can I Please Be the First?!? by tduff · · Score: -1, Troll
    I want to be the first to predict Google sues eBay for monopolistic practices or some other restriction on open and fair trade!
    Too bad it was on digg earlier today and was predicted multiple times there. Better luck next time.
  4. Absolute Evil banned from Relative Evil by WED+Fan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google, read "Absolute Evil", can't get their product on their competitor's web site, Boo-fricking-hoo. Google plumbs the depths of evil for their cooperation with China. Best they were never born.

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    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
  5. Re:Oh! Can I Please Be the First?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL....imagine! Taking Ebay to task for being greedy and monopolisitc, when talking about Google! LMFAO!