Ebay forcing sellers to use PayPal.

[echnidna]

www.trademe.co.nz isn't much chop


www.oztion.com.au Oztion is much better

neither of these has the volume of items as ebay

[Gra]

How long does it take to deregister a company, close the office and move it to india. Not long, thousands do it yearly.

then they would lose the .au. to get a .com.au site you need to register a company. I believe (one of the odd Aussie rules in domain names). But it wouldn't take much to close the business here and reopen in bermuda or tuvalu or the like, in fact you will probably find they already have an office there, but they would need to be vary careful to ensure they dont infringe on the banking laws (I think they already do and have a license to do so), as they could then be shut down

[woodbe]

Not long, thousands do it yearly.

Name one. Shutting down a company is not the same as slamming the door. It's usually a nightmare.

Paypal especially needs Australian registration. It's a financial institution and it needs a license. We might not like them, and they may be making crook decisions, but Ebay Australia and Paypal Australia are legitimate Australian businesses, operating under the auspices of Australian Laws.

woodbe

[Master Splinter]

A similar letter has gone to Ebay UK members, requiring them to offer PayPal on all their sales.

It sounds like Ebay is doing some market reaction testing in smaller markets before hitting the US with it.

[Buzzer]

Just closed my paypal a/c !!!

[ernknot]

Just closed my paypal a/c !!!

I will open one just so I can close it

[bsrlee]

I think they are trying to get around the Australian laws as according to a story in MX mag here in Sydney, that they will continue to allow Visa/Mastercard, but the transactions must be processed via PayPal, not your local bank.

From the look of the ACCC site, that is still '3rd party forcing', but it is a try, or is that try-on?

[DavidG]

Suddenly seems to be more stuff on OZtion.

[echnidna]

only trouble with Oztion is there aint as many buyers there.

[Brickie]

only trouble with Oztion is there aint as many buyers there.

There soon will be though....

[TermiMonster]

I closed mine.

[Brickie]

Its ok and cool to close PayPal accounts but its like the Major banks of Oz, one puts up their fees so every one migrates to another Major bank only to be told that they too are increasing fees, so you move again, etc, etc.

Ebay knows that if you want to buy/sell on Ebay that you WILL use Paypal, youll all protest in the short term, but youll be back........whmahahahahahaha

[zathras]

The irony of it all is people may move over to Oztion, but some sellers there will still offer Paypal so epay still indirectly wins out from the other auction site

[Ivan in Oz]

Ebay knows that if you want to buy/sell on Ebay that you WILL use Paypal, youll all protest in the short term, but youll be back........whmahahahahahaha

Unless you deal directly with the seller,
and NO ePAY involvment.

Though,
I am not going to admit that's how I got my 3 Camping Mattresses for near
HALF PRICE of Some of the Money Grabbing Camping Stores!


Now looking at a Comercial Honda Lawn Mower

[Big Shed]

ACCC now officially investigating this matter.

Hope they have better luck than they had with petrol pricing