eBay's Plan to Force PayPal Rejected Down Under

Jm_aus writes "eBay's plan to force all users to use PayPal only has been rejected by Australia's competition regulator, the ACCC. This followed 650 submissions from eBay users as well as from Australian banks, other payment services, the Australian Reserve Bank, and (anonymously) Google, which aired a lot of dirty laundry about PayPal's unresponsiveness and failure to sign up to the local banking code of conduct. Apparently the public benefits from eBay's 'Bad Buyer Experience' elimination program are likely to be 'minimal.' There is a period for appeals."

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And furthermore...

[Barny]

... we would like to add, on behalf of the Australians who you are trying to blatantly extort:

*ahem*

"Like fuck you will"

That was an extract from the actual brief, word for word, honest :P

You're in luck mate!

[Anonymous Coward]

As a buyer, I really want to use my credit card directly.

Just fill out the form at gday.ebay.mate/safecredit.asp and we'll get you started faster than a kangaroo can steal your vegemite sandwich.

Re:Can somebody explain?

[PoliTech]

For the same reason that Ebay acts like a fencing operation for stolen goods, but is never charged as such.

Paypal sucks

[phoneteller]

I got conned by a seller on ebay, I paid $90 something and the seller vanished. Paypal (owned by ebay) refused to even investigate this. They asked me to wait for 21 days, and then they wanted me to email them a complaint. They did nothing. Way to go Aussie mates, you struck them in their balls.