They now plan to make you use Paypal only when transacting online from July 15. The ACCC may have some more to say about that, of course, but in the interim, you can still use any of the available online payment options.
From the press release:
eBay challenges yesterday’s Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission’s (ACCC) draft notice and is disappointed that the ACCC’s
current view delays the opportunity to provide consumers a more secure
way to shop on eBay.com.au with confidence.eBay intends to
work with the ACCC and hopes to achieve a final outcome which has the
safety and security of eBay’s members as its paramount objective. eBay
will delay the removal of other payment methods from the site until
Tuesday 15 July.
It still blows me away that they’re still pushing the whole security reason as the catalyst for this move. I mean, if it were purely for the benefit of consumers, they’d cut back some of the fees involved for sellers.
Hopefully we’ll see the ACCC pull out a can of whoop-ass on eBay and this will fade away quietly in the night before July 15.
Tim
Monday, June 16, 2008 at 10:48 PMI think many eBay sellers were gratified by the ACCC announcement, but I’ve already cut down my listings. I used to list 120-150 items per month on eBay, and now I’m doing 3-5 a week as I search for other ways to expand my business.
One thing rings particularly hollow in eBay’s stance supposedly protecting consumers. If one of their stands is that by using Paypal, buyer are more likely to receive their items, then why not force all eBay transactions to be delivered by pickup or registered, traceable postage/courier only? Why not? Because unfortunately, eBay don’t own Australia Post or a courier company (yet) but they do own Paypal.
That’d be a nice development IF eBay are permitted to force Paypal on eBay customers. eBay will then force you to use their in-house postal system – for your safety. Then you’ll only be allowed to log on to eBay via eBay branded computers – all for “security’s sake” to protect you, of course.
Someone please bring on a proper web 2.0 competitor who won’t stuff up customer relationships as badly as eBay have…
Tim
clan mosel
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 3:32 PMOZTION is where to go.100% Aussie owned.3 weeks ago i listed 205 items for 28 days all free.197 of those items have now sold and final value fees are so low i can pass savings to customers.plus i can add 3 photos of EACH product FREE…MOVE ON TO OZTION !!