When the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) decided to investigate eBay Australia’s plan to force its sellers to use PayPal for their “protection”, there were more than 700 public submissions. eBay has responded by dismissing the objections.
I’ve written about this at length previously, both here and in Crikey [1, 2], with plenty of interesting comments from readers. And I’ve just written a piece for Crikey today, to be published around 2pm Sydney time.
Meanwhile, you can read some overview pieces at Auction Bytes and The Sheet. And you can see eBay’s full 15-page response at the ACCC website: it’s the second submission on the page, from “Applicant”.
To make things just that little bit more interesting, yesterday Telstra’s Sensis division announced a free auction site at Trading Post.
[Update 1250pm: The story will now run in Crikey tomorrow (Thursday). Busy news day, apparently.]
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Tags: accc, crikey, ebay, paypal, sensis, telstra, trading post
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