05 July 2008 ~ 2 Comments

eBay Australia Backs Down on PayPal Push

eBay.com.au released a statement yesterday notifying of their intent to withdraw its notification to the ACCC regarding the removal of other payment options from the eBay.com.au website. This didn’t come as a big surprise. Going to court over the matter would indeed have been a long and painful process, not to mention the amount of [...]

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27 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

eBay Australia In Lose/Lose Situation

Time to change all your listings back to include all payment options? Today eBay announced it would postpone its (now) 15th July deadline for changes of listing payment options to PayPal only, citing its requirements to wait until the review process of the ACCC regarding its recent draft notice is complete. It seems fairly inevitable [...]

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13 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

The ACCC proposes to revoke immunity for eBay’s PayPal only policy

This afternoon the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, an independent statutory authority formed in 1995 to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974 and other acts in Australia, issued a press release regarding it’s intent toward the pending PayPal only policy change from eBay.com.au. The press release says: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a [...]

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06 May 2008 ~ 13 Comments

eBay faces the angry mob in Melbourne last night

I have been catching up on the news this morning about eBay’s public meeting in Melbourne regarding the Paypal only changes coming in June. I wasn’t surprised to hear that there was quite an angry mob asking questions of Simon Smith, Andrew Pipolo and Alistair MacGibbon. I got invited to have an informal Q&A sessions [...]

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10 April 2008 ~ 7 Comments

eBay Australia forcing sellers and buyers to use Paypal

In a big move today, eBay Australia announced that shortly only Paypal will be a viable payment option for sellers on the site, along with cash on pickup of items, and credit card payments (via Paypal). According to the release : These changes are part of our ongoing commitment to protect our members. We believe [...]

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