Fleabay cop a backhander from Oz authorities!

[offshore]

Ebay has been well and truly told by the ACCC, as to it's thoughts on making Paypal a stand alone product.

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/...5013040,00.html

And it appears they won't listen, as they are challenging the decision!

One can only hope the focus shifts to Paypal and its standover, bully boy operation.

Offshore

[JuiceMaker]

offshore,

I don't know really, but it seems to me that ACCC do alot of "publicity" talking about what they're doing or going to do to protect Australian consumers but they don't end up doing anything good???

just look at the petrol & grocery inquiries...

what has come out of it???

[offshore]

JM,

Can't disagree with anything you said, however it does appear in this instance they have pulled ebay in to line.

Now if they would only set their sights on Paypal!!

Offshore

[TeeJay]

"current view delays the opportunity to provide consumers a more secure way to shop on eBay.com.au with confidence."

With confidence...

That's funny

I might be happy to use eBay and PayPal, but that doesn't mean I don't see them for the slags they are

[offshore]

Thought this little tidbit today had some merit-

<H1>Five desperate tactics eBay could use to change the ACCC's mind

eBay now just has 12 days to convince the ACCC it isn't an anti-competitive rorter. Our lawyers have put some tips together for their lawyers.

eBay has set a new deadline for enforcing PayPal of July 15, after the ACCC comprehensively slammed its plans to make PayPal the only payment mechanism allowed for Australian buyers. Apparently not concerned that it's already coming across as the cyberspace equivalent of a schoolyard bully, the auction giant has vowed to "continue to fight for safety benefits for consumers".

Despite the bluster, and the presentation of this change as a near-certainty, eBay will only be able to push ahead with the new date if it can convince the ACCC to change its mind, something which 80 pages of legal documents hasn't achieved so far. While we'd frankly much rather not see eBay succeed, in the spirit of fair play, here's some suggestions of tactics the company could use.

(1) Drop back a notch and make PayPal compulsory, but not exclusive. Since last year, eBay has required newly-registered users to offer PayPal as an option on listings, and this hasn't resulted in any great legal dramas as far as we know. Requiring PayPal to be available, but not requiring it to be used, would give buyers who wanted safety the option, but wouldn't get sellers' backs up half as much as the current proposal. (The fact that eBay hasn't pursued this option suggests that despite its protestations, it's quite keen on collecting all that extra fee revenue from PayPal.)

(2) Propose something even more outrageous. A useful diversion: when Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer were writing the classic TV sitcom The Young Ones, they would often put in deliberately offensive material that they knew BBC management would never approve