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A "Pay with PayPal" Requirement on eBay End of Auction Message
13 May 2009
EventHorizon1984
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Nothing like watching eBay push for an investigation of PayPal due to Sherman Antitrust violations.
For a good part of the this year and up until the second weekend in May, after a buyer made a purchase on eBay.com, that buyer received a standard End Of Auction email. And that email started like this:
Dear **customer**,
But beginning the second weekend in May 2009, eBay altered the message text. The brand new payment message looks like this:
Hi **customer**,
Don't wait. Pay now to get your item within 4-5 days.
Pay with PayPal, the safe and easy way to pay for your eBay purchases.
It does not matter whether a sellers uses direct credit card processing through a merchant account, or one of eBay's straw dog alternatives like ProPay, Moneybookers, Paymate, the buyer will see "Pay with PayPal".
This is what eBay defines as "convenient payment options". That is "convenient" to eBay equals "Pay with PayPal". Or maybe 'Any eBay seller can have a any payment method they want so long as it is PayPal.'
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he want so long as it is black."
Attributed to Henry Ford 1909
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when will eBAy STOP!!!
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Posted on 13 May 2009 at 23:30 in Commentary, eBay, eBay Customer Service, Fraud, PayPal | Permalink
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