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Paymate gripes about eBay and PayPal
 A new complaint against eBay was lodged last week with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) by an online payment service, Paymate, a PayPal competitor. The payment processor claims that eBay is acting against the Trade Practices Act.
In May eBay entered amendments into its user agreement requiring sellers to include PayPal as one of their payment methods for each listing. As argued by Paymate such a measure prevents the company and other payment options to be accepted on the score of eBay’s forcing PayPal on merchants. "It is our belief that eBay, in both Australia & New Zealand, is engaging in conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act because the conduct amounts to anti-competitive exclusive dealing," said Dilip Rao, Paymate managing director. In addition to the amendment entered into the regulations of eBay, the company applied to the ACCC for legal immunity from sections of the TPA asking the competition regulator to prohibit all payment options except PayPal on merchants’ websites. But the move failed to be a success and July 3, eBay withdrew its notification. As for the latest complaints from Paymate ACCC gave no comment so far and didn’t clarify if any investigations are to be held.
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This is becoming so very Tiresome. ebay own the site so why on earth wouldnt they be able to promote Paypal, if buyers dont want to use it they wont. Dont like it go elsewhere simple, give buyers the choice or dont sell on ebay. It isnt ebay pushing away the buyers now but ebay sellers who keep trying to get documents published. BORING eBay PR spin - no thanks
You must be an eBay employee, hiding like an anonymous coward. Sure eBay can promote PayPal, but FORCING all sellers to offer PayPal whether they want to or not and cancelling any listings that state they prefer any payment method other than PayPal is clearly anti-competitive. Yes it is eBay's site but it is not exempt from Australian competition laws. It's about time eBay was given a bloody nose for its recalcitrant attitude. |
 October 14, 2008
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I HAVE SOLD ON EBAY SINCE 2001 IN THE U.S.A. & USED BID PAY FOR PAYMENTS UNTIL PAY PAL FORCED BID PAY OUT OF BUSINESS ALONG WITH THE HELP OF EBAY!!!!!
YES!!!! PAYMATE IS NEEDED FOR EBAY SELLERS!!!!!
I HAVE ABOUT 2,000 POSITIVE FEEDBACKS AS DR.MOE52, AND EBAY ALWAYS SIDES WITH THE BUYER AND THE SELLER BE DAMNED!!!! THERE ARE SO MANY BUYER SCAMS, I COULD WRITE A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT!!!! EBAY NEVER SCREENS THE BUYERS AND AS A RESULT YOU GET NON PAYERS, SCAM ARTISTS, PSYCOTIC IDIOTS WITH BUYERS REMORSE, ETC. ETC.!!!!
I WISH I COULD JOIN TRADEME!!!!!!
MAYBE IN THE FUTURE THEY WILL START A TRADEME IN THE U.S.A.???? MAYBE IF A U.S.A. TRADEME SELLER GETS 100+ POSITIVE FEEDBACKS, THEN THEY WILL BE ALLOWED TO SELL ON TRADEME IN NZ AND AU???
THANK YOU AND REMEMBER TO QUIT USING EBAY AND PAY PAL, USE TRADEME AND PAYMATE INSTEAD!!!