Congratulations to all you Australian sellers. You fought the good fight against Paypal AND YOU WON!

eBay has withdrawn it's notice to go "Paypal Only" and you retain the right to offer multiple payment methods as usual. This is a BIG win! You beat them!

Some are still complaining that you will now be required to include Paypal as an available payment method, where before you did not have to include Paypal at all. This is still a big win because the buyer is NOT being forced to use it. The buyer can still use the other methods of their preference.

You win, competition wins, you beat the monster.

Good for you. Take a bow!

Well, as most of you know by now, eBay WITHDREW its application to make payments via PayPal only, compulsory in Australia.

Just shows what a lot of determined sellers can do if we get together. I was with some other eBay sellers when the news came through, and the champagne was flowing!

Congratulations to everyone who gave submissions in to ACCC, or supported us in any way, to make this possible.

:-) big grin!

I think that Paypal is a joke and should itself be investigated for offering fraudulant "Buyer Protection". I recently won a dispute but could not recover any funds as the seller cleaned out her account.
Buyer protection did not help me or the numerous other buyers that were also ripped off so, what is the benifit of such a policy or even paypal for that matter.
If paypal becomes the only acceptable form of payment option on E-Bay, anywhere, I will not be using that particular site, PERIOD!!

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Originally posted by grateful: Just shows what a lot of determined sellers can do if we get together. :-) big grin!

Yea, well I wish all the ebay sellers would get together and try to get rid of this default best match crap on the searches. Its an auction site and time ending soonest should be #1 priority and is totally fair for everyone.

quenouille04,
This is a known glitch that is going on right now..believe me I know firsthand. As long as your seller had either $200 or $2000 in PP protection (it shows on the listing right below the links to see feedbacck, ask a question, etc) you ARE covered whether there are funds or not. But you will have to CALL Paypal to straighten it out. Their Buyer Protection is not fradulent...however if a seller has terrible FB or alot of claims made against them, or are just plain new, Paypal will not offer the buyer protection and the LACK of it will show on the listing. Here's an example of one of my own listings...check out the yellow box to the right.

http://tinyurl.com/5zu2pq


And BTW...Austrailia ROCKS!! Huge Congrats!