EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly

An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and the regulatory ACCC, eBay spammed users claiming it was fighting for 'safety benefits for consumers.' Fortunately the consumers won. Conceded eBay vice president Simon Smith, 'While we disagree with the ACCC's draft notice, we have decided to withdraw the notification to stop any further confusion and disruption among the eBay community.' Nevertheless eBay insists PayPal is now always offered as a payment option. Have big corporations finally learned that they can go too far? More chillingly, if eBay had launched the scheme in America would they have gotten away with it?"

Comments

Re:A dumb end to a dumb arguement.

[Stanislav_J]

You are naive to the Nth degree if you think you still can't get ripped off just because the messages happen to pass through eBay, or the payment form happens to be PayPal. You are still sending your money to a private individual, and that individual is the one (allegedly) shipping your item. That doesn't change, and if the seller is dishonest, he's dishonest, period. If you buy a high-dollar item from an eBayer who has not been active for long, and has a sketchy or very short feedback record, well then you take your chances. But when you look at my track record, and see over 6,000 positive feedbacks and a 99.9% positive rate over many years, and still think I'm trying to rip you off because I prefer to deal with you personally and directly (which is still allowed, and used to be the norm), then you are too paranoid to be buying anything on the Internet.