eBay Australia Makes PayPal Processing Mandatory
April 10, 2008
Just recently eBay UK made a change to their policy where all sellers must accept PayPal payment along side any other payment seller wishes to accept. This time eBay Australia went one step further. For eBay Australia, PayPal has to be the only accept form of payment with the exception of local pickup. Here is an AuctionByte article on this new policy.
I thought preventing the use of Google Checkout was bad but this sort of draconian policy just takes the cake. I guess eBay sees sellers who accept checks, money orders, or do their own credit card processing are nothing more than sellers trying to circumvent PayPal fees. It’s only matter of time for this sort of onerous policy to be implemented in the US. Anyone want to make a wager on when this will happen here? I guess those Australian eBay sellers who are on the fence about boycotting eBay just got some new motivation to join the global boycott.
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