E-Bay And Paypal In The European Union

You can now start filing legal action against E-Bay & PayPal in the European Union! You don't even need to hire a lawyer at all.

Firstly,read this; http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/index.htm .

Secondly,read this;
http://ec.europa.eu/community_law/your_rights/your_rights_forms_en.htm .

Download the form marked 'en',then fill it in & send.

The European Commission will even accept complaints made anonymously,even if they are lodged from outside Europe.

Please state that you want to invoke Article 82d. of the European Union Treaty,which will generate a complaint against the authorities of all 27 European Union member states for failing to apply E.U. law against eBay & PayPal. - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!

If enough people file complaints to the European Commission against E-Bay & PayPal,they WILL take notice & they will file a legal case in the European courts on behalf of consumers.

If legal action does occur in Europe,then hopefully,that will spur the authorities in other countries,including both America & Canada,to file legal action against both E-Bay & PayPal in their own legal jurisdictions.

E-Bay Is Broken Buyers & Sellers Beware

Yet another writer and blogger descibing thier selling experinaces on E-Bay it's nice to see that the fruad problem is still around although not with coins this time it's still the clasic ongoing scam. Below for you convenince is a copy of the article.

I expected selling my computer on eBay to be easy.

Attempt 1: I listed it. Within hours, someone bought it -- from a hacked account, as eBay notified me, canceling the sale.

Attempt 2: I listed it again. Within hours, someone bought it, and asked me to send it to her via FedEx overnight. The buyer sent payment via PayPal immediately, and then -- near as I could tell -- immediately opened a dispute with PayPal so that the funds were put on hold. And then she sent me an e-mail saying "I paid you, now send me the computer." But PayPal was faster than she expected, I think. At the same time, I received an e-mail from PayPal saying that I might have received a payment that the account holder did not authorize, and that I shouldn't ship the item until the investigation is complete.

I was willing to make Attempt 3, but someone on my blog bought it first. It looks like eBay is completely broken for items like this.

It's not just me.

http://consumerist.com/5007790/its-now-completely-impossible-to-sell-a-laptop-on-ebay or http://tinyurl.com/55hprp

A copy of this essay, with all embedded links, is here:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/fraud_on_ebay.html

Bill Gates: Microsoft vs. Google Checkout, eBay PayPal

This could get interesting hopfully it will make things better for the end users of these sevices. I'm also wondering though, at what point would these services be cosidered a Monoply? All Comments welcome.


Bill Gates has done a lot of thinking about the online payments market.

At Microsoft’s “Think Week,” a development plan was set for an online payment system “that will be cheaper than credit card transactions, making it possible for companies to charge small fees for Web-based content and services they now offer for free,” according to Dow Jones reports.
Speaking at the Davos World Economic Forum, Gates said:
If you want to charge somebody $0.10 or $1 a month, that will just be a click…you won't have to manage some funny thing or pay some big credit charge, where half of it goes to the clearing.
By undercutting credit card fees, the Microsoft offering would enable an online newspaper to profitably charge small fees for individual articles, Gates put forth as an example.


A new universal Microsoft online micro payments system could attract the legions of independent Web publishers, blogs and small ecommerce plays, with the potential to be a significant rival to eBay’s PayPal.

Google Checkout is not a competitor to PayPal; Google invests in the Google-centric formula as part of a strategy to continually increase monetization of AdWords. Google positions Google Checkout as undercutting credit card transaction fees but in reality it pays for them on behalf of merchants. It also subsidizes the consumer transaction.

As Google is losing money on its Checkout offering, it is not sustainable as a stand alone micro payments service, or for mass distribution on the Google publisher network. Google Checkout currently has no raison d'etre without its AdWords tie-in.
Google's AdSense business could potentially be disrupted by a well thought out Microsoft micro payments offering. In lieu of monetization by content "enhanced" by Google's "Sponsored Links," Websites could monetize their own content directly.

Direct monetization would enable Web publishers to keep users at their sites, without revenue sharing with Google and without need for the ubiqutous "Ads by Goooooogle."
Microsoft vs. Google in Website monetization options could test Google's assertion that Google ads enhance third-party Website content, rather than detract from it

E-Bay & Paypal at War With Google

I thought readers might be interested in this if you sell coins or for that matter anything on E-Bay you might find this interesting.

Sellers in the Middle of eBay - Google Conflict

By Ina SteinerAuctionBytes.com January 22, 2007

eBay has long denied it competes with Google. It was only 1 year ago that CEO Meg Whitman was quoted in theFinancial Times newspaper saying she believed Google,Yahoo, eBay and Amazon would focus on their core activities rather than compete with each other head-on. In support of her prediction, Whitman said eBay specialized in ecommerce, payment and voice communication, while "Google stands for search." Since that interview, Google launched its Checkout payment processing system and recently said it has ambitious plans for its Google Base offering(http://googlebase.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-plans-for-2007.html).

eBay meanwhile banned its sellers from using GoogleCheckout, and earlier this month, eBay said it would only protect buyers in PayPal-funded transactions. On Wednesday, eBay said it would begin requiring newsellers to accept PayPal or a merchant credit card in order to list items on the US and Canadian sites. The same day, Google started using its prime search page to advertise a special promotion offering buyers $10 to spend when they used Google Checkout.

On Thursday, gossip-blog Valleywag said the Google promotion signaled the end of a "cease-fire" between the companies. Valleywag said a former executive at eBay told it the two companies had "agreed tacitly in 2003 to stay out of each other's turf," and that as recently as last August, the two companies were still trying to avoid conflict (http://valleywag.com/tech/behind-the-news/google-breaks-ceasefire-with-ebay-229800.php).Red Herring magazine concurred on Friday, calling theGoogle - eBay war "official" (http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20838&hed=Google%2c+eBay+Go+to+War).eBay said its decision to institute its Safe Paymentspolicy in October 2005, now called the AcceptedPayment policy, was based on safety concerns and inputfrom the Community. But eBay PowerSellers are getting itchy for eBay tolet them process payments through Google Checkout.

While eBay's payment service PayPal can cost 2.9% plus per-transaction fees, Google made Checkout free through the end of 2007. Those dollars add up, and theInternet Merchants Association (IMA) - a group of 200top eBay sellers - started an online petition to demand that eBay leaders remove the ban on GoogleCheckout (http://www.petitiononline.com/ebayban/petition.html).eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy told Red Herring therewas little if any merchant demand for Google Checkout. eBay is increasingly finding itself bumping into Google folks at eBay seller events.

The next such meeting will take place at the IMA conference next month, where eBay will present a session called "Newin 2007," while Google will spend 3 hours explaining its AdWords, Google Checkout, Google Base and Froogle programs. Sellers can only hope they will be the beneficiaries of battles between the behemoths.

Link to Financial Times interview with Meg Whitman: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae2efcb0-9847-11da-816b-0000779e2340.html

Link to story:http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m01/i22/s01

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