Ebay Australia forces all users to use paypal
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I can see a slate of alternative auction sites opening up in june somehow... news story here EBAY Australia users will be forced to use the company's online commerce website PayPal under new security measures prohibiting direct deposit and money orders as payment methods.From June, all items on eBay Australia will have to be paid for online using a PayPal account or a Visa or Mastercard transaction through PayPal. Buyers will still be able to pay for an item with cash if they are picking it up in person.PayPal, which is owned by eBay, charges a fee of between 1.1 and 2.4 per cent per credit card payment, which will be collected on top of existing charges to list and sell items through the auction website.eBay trust and safety director Alastair MacGibbon said forcing PayPal to "stand in between buyers and sellers" would reduce the likelihood of conflict and increase consumer confidence."eBay is no longer willing to stand aside and allow payment methods on the site that are proven to be less safe for consumers," he said."You're four times less likely to have a problem on eBay if you pay with PayPal than, say, if you used internet banking."Mr MacGibbon said he expected a "small but vocal minority" of users to oppose the changes, which will force all eBay Australia sellers to use a PayPal account."There are always some people who take a while to accept change," he said."Most sellers already have a PayPal account. If you've been a new seller for the last year and a half you've had to be offering PayPal anyway in your listings."But boosting buyer confidence would stimulate activity and ultimately benefit sellers, and eBay, Mr MacGibbon said."By reducing the likelihood of things going wrong and by increasing buyer confidence there will be a stimulus to the five or so million eBay users in Australia," he said."If it's good for buyers, it's good for sellers and therefore good for eBay."The changes also include an increase to the PayPal Buyer Protection scheme claim limit for Australian users, from $3000 to $20,000.Mr MacGibbon said figures for how many people had accessed the protection fund in Australia were not available."Clearly it's discretionary... (but) you don't have a buyer protection program in place that you don't intend to pay out," he said.International eBay sites would monitor the changes made in Australia and decide whether to follow suit, Mr MacGibbon said.All items listed on eBay Australia must offer PayPal as a payment method by May 21, while payment methods such as direct deposit and money orders will be banned from
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paypal on the other hand...
And... Mark, if you want to pay via direct deposit
"Buyers will still be able to pay for an item with cash if they are picking it up in person."
I'm sure you can just say you will be doing a pick up and then just deposit the cash into the persons account...
Australia's been suckin' ass on the whole mp3/dj/record game lately.... someone post some good news about the land down under for once...
typical farken whingin' aussie carnts...
The current benefit id though that you can pay really easily with netbank and there's 0 fees for buyers or sellers and the payment is pretty much instant. It's like free paypal.
netbank them. have them send it. have them mark it off paid.
easy.
unless you're dealing with people with shitty feedback... who you shouldn't be buyin' records from in the first place.
?? maybe i'm missing something but it seems simple to get around it?
b
This probably is best here, if it is not already widely know about.
no raers for you j***!
did u forget, you live in Brisbane... home of the shit?
To clarify: I believe B***n is disparaging the crappy (no pun intended) home city we share, rather than declaring it to be "the shit".
Sheep has the deepest crates in Brisneyland (correct me if i'm wrong dude)
combined with all this mp3/dj/ebay drama in the newswire...
and mutherfuckers starting a FIGHT at my hommies WAKE in Brisbane....
and the small country town styles combined with the tall poppy syndrome....
I'm seriously considering moving away for good, if not overseas, at least to another state... it's too slow... don't you think Bobby?
I wouldn't mind bringing up kids here, but thats not really in the immediate future so I don't think i'll be here much longer.
did u hear about the fight at the DJ Angus memorial gig?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=122481012
listen to the tune he did with a flav shout out... dude was kinda coming back hard...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/watchd...8025245331.html
LOL - this definitely wouldn't go over in the US, hopefully they will be thwarted in Aus as well...