Angry eBay users are expected to bombard a meeting today between the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and PayPal Australia.

In regards to what?

Well eBay is trying to enforce new policies of which the ACCC does not agree with.

As Tech Wired Australia has previously reported on eBay wants users to only use the payment method of PayPal, of which it owns.

The issue is that the ACCC and 700+ other online merchants believe enforcing users to only use PayPal is unfair competition.

So in protest, during a meeting between the ACCC and PayPal in Sydney today, users are expected to be protesting according to Inside Retailing.

Will keep you posted.

Original source: PayPal protesters descend on Sydney

Found out though: http://www.twitter.com/Warlach

One of Tech Wired Australia’s hosts just received an email from eBay Australia regarding their upcoming changes to their Policy.

The ACCC (responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trade Practices Act 1974) has delayed eBay from putting their new policy into force, as it believes that one of it’s policies (eBay’s) in particular, goes against fair competition laws.

The policy that eBay wants to put in to place and implement would only allow users of the popular online trading site to use Cash on Delivery or Paypal as the only methods of payment on it’s site, of which sells 1000′s of items everyday.

This policy, of which has sparked outrage amongst consumers Australia wide, essentially restricts users from using their own bank account to electronically transfer money into a sellers account, and forces them to use Paypal (which is actually owned by eBay making it possibly a conflict of interest) to buy items from the site.

Other issues consumers, and of course the ACCC has with this, is that Paypal attracts many surcharges for it’s usage, and in-turn will cost users in the long run – more.

In defence to criticisms, eBay Australia is claiming it’s new policies will be safer for it’s consumers, and i turn create a batter online shopping experience.

So what will the public / ACCC decide?

It looks like eBay have already set their postponed date in the email they sent out, to July 17th.

So perhaps they think that they’re still going to have these policies approved.

Would love to hear what you think about this.

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