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

In article <4801c16c$0$16837$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 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.

Fair enough.  I just assumed you paid the seller through eBay -- that 
is, the loot went to eBay and they passed it on after extracting their 
commission.

If the transaction is direct from buyer to seller, I can see why eBay 
may be wanting to change things so they can be *sure* of getting their 
commission.

There's also the issue of a convenient audit trail for these 
transactions so eBay can say "You *have* been paid" to a seller who 
tries to rort the system.  (Or *haven't* been if it's a shonky buyer.)

Of course, all of this is just hypothetical blathering on the part of 
someone who has never used eBay, and probably never will, so has no 
idea how the whole bloody system works, or is supposed to. YMMV.

Cheers, Phred.

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