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
eBay has been doing a lot as of late in regards to it’s policies. One of eBay’s latest introductions is a new shipping and handling policy of which is only being introduced and implemented in the German version of the popular online auction store.
From June 15 2008, eBay Germany will be introducing 34 new categories for sellers to categorise their listings into.
Some of the categories being introduced include:
- Software
- MP3 Player
- Lamps & Light Cell Phones
- Women’s Clothing
- DVD
- Plattierter gold jewellery
Although this isn’t affecting the home land of mine (Australia) a new implementation of a Paypal mandatory system is currently being ‘tested out’ in Australia with the eBay community not too impressed with the initiative with Paypal being owned by eBay and all.
It seems that eBay will continue to test the waters everywhere where their market is considerably smaller than their major US and China markets.
Source: eBay Germany – Introduction of maximum Return
