[LINK] Age: 'Reserve Bank could scuttle eBay's plans'

[Stephen Wilson]

Rick Welykochy wrote:

>> Alastair MacGibbon, eBay's trust and safety director, said ... one is 
>> four times less likely to have a problem on eBay if one pays using 
>> PayPal than with other methods.
> 
> Can we do something to make SPIN illegal?
> Outright lying like this is an insult to all who read it.

That's pretty strong!  I'm not defending eBay or PayPal (in particular, 
I can't see how PayPal is fundamentally any more resistant to replay 
attack than is a credit card scheme) but ... what exactly is the lie?

Cheers,

Stephen Wilson
Managing Director
Lockstep

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