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eBay Backs Down From All-PayPal Plan In Australia

Michael Learmonth | July 10, 2008 11:05 AM 
www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/ebay-backs-down-from-all-paypal-plan-in-
australia

eBay (EBAY) quietly dropped its plan to require Australian sellers to use 
PayPal or cash only for transactions, according to the WSJ. 

The company notified sellers in April that they were required to offer the 
auction site's in-house electronic payment system PayPal as a payment 
option, and said it would soon require them to conduct business in cash or 
via PayPal only.

This attracted the attention of the Australian Competition and Consumer 
Commission, which said the move at least appeared to be anti-competitive, 
not to mention the ire of Australia's well-organized selling community. 

eBay says it dropped the plan after listening to its customers. Skeptics 
suggest (quite reasonably), that eBay was trying to see how forcing PayPal 
down its customers throats worked before trying it in othe countries -- 
a "today Australia, tomorrow the world" strategy -- but eBay says that's 
not true. It's just something its Aussie team requested, it says.
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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia