Re: eBay plans to suck more money out of us!

Rod Speed wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Phred wrote:
>>
>>> What nonsense!  Half the businesses in the country have limits on
>>> acceptable payment methods -- just check out how many say Diners'
>>> Club and/or AMEX cards are not accepted.  Then there are all the
>>> small businesses that don't even have payment options other than
>>> cash! (Though some will also accept cheques if you're known to them.)
>> That's a quite different situation. If you want to do business with X,
>> you must pay them in a way that they'll accept.
>>
>> The Ebay scenario is something else entirely. Essentially X wants to
>> buy from Y, and Ebay is saying that X must pay Y using PayPal, or
>> Ebay will not bring X and Y together so that they can do business.
> 
> Doesnt mean that its contrary to the TPA. 
> 

I didn't argue that it was in that post. I was merely pointing out that 
Phred's reference to "half the businesses in the country" was not 
relevant to the point at hand.

It's about making sure the chain of reasoning is sound, not just that 
the conclusion is the one one wants.

Sylvia.