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Obviously they have rules stating you can't add fees to the cost of the item for sales paid for thru paypal. Why? Every other merchant who sells goods and services anywhere else in Australia charges a fee if you use credit card to pay? What gives them the right to stop you charging extra to absorb their double dipping?

I offer Paypal as I MUST, but I leave my postage fees blank. When a customer buys, BEFORE they pay, I ask how they intend to pay, and offer them a decent discount off my inflated fee for postage and handling that covers ebay and paypals fee, but only if they DON'T pay by paypal. I accept cheques, credit card, direct deposit and pay on pick up, and so far, since the "must have paypal rule" was introduced, I have only had one person who insisted on paying by paypal, and 200+ that have paid by other means.

And regardless of what ebay says, the only transaction I had difficulty with was the PAYPAL transaction! So not surprising Ebay reversed the decision, they certainly didn't do it for the buyers or the sellers benefit, their back pocket was starting to seriously hurt!

I'm happy to see there's no monopoly, but at the same time a universal solution would create a better integrated system I feel. If everyone does things in the same way, it will be easier to manage for companies such as eBay and will cut down on problems from other payment methods.

However, as I previously said, I think preventing monopoly and providing choice is more important.

I have been running ebay stores/auctions in the USA for 4 years now and am disgusted by eBay's constant "NEW" policies trying to make ebay a "SAFE" place to shop. It has only become safe and one sided for the buyers to shop... What about the sellers??? We need to be protected from the fraudulent buyers out there. Without sellers, there would be NO place to shop for the buyers! I just want to have equal pull in the market place.

About a month ago, a buyer came into my ebay store bid up a lot of my auctions (won all of them), then immediately proceeded to leave NEGATIVE, nasty, profanity laced feedback for all of the transactions. So with one buyers hay day, I now have 11 negatives in the blink of an eye...that I can NOT leave feedback for. I have been fighting with ebay to get these removed and they are doing nothing about it. (They say all I can do is wait the 15 days for the NON-PAYING bidder policy.) They even refused to remove the profanity in several feedback, but guess what, they have a policy that says... Feedback that has profanity in it will be removed immediately. WHAT??? Now my account is suspended because I have so many negatives in a short amount of time...??? This is just the beginning...with paypal being owned by ebay of course there are ramifications to my paypal site.

When I logged into paypal- first screen I get is "Your account is frozen". (I can not access my money at all and I have 9 new disputes.) From what the people where saying in there disputes was that Ebay sent them a note telling them to immediately file a dispute because their item would not be shipped because I was a fraudulent seller. I have shipped items to some of these people already. Fraudulent??? I have been selling on ebay for over 4 years with a combined feedback score of over 3000.

While looking over all the disputes, I notice that paypal has done a reversal on a transaction that took place 6 months ago. Product has been shipped and feedback was given, but the person claims they did not complete the sale, so paypal gave them their money back without getting my side or proof that the item was shipped... I am tired of getting scammed/fleeced by ebay and paypal. I am done on ebay now and will no longer sell there. I have now opened my new website www.phantomstonejewelry.com. I am trying to get a merchant account open for this store so I do NOT have to take paypal. I will party on the day I can get away from this awful company's monopoly... I plan on writting a blog on the fleeceing of ebay and paypal as soon as I can.

What makes them think that their payment method is more secure? How arrogant! I have been using Google Checkout exclusively for 1 1/2 years for my website at www.SuperSaunaSuits.com and I have not had one issue with credibility, fraud or identity issues with myself or my clients. And, Google also plugs in their Fraud Prevention and Identity verification before even authorizing a charge, so it protects me as a merchant.

I am absolutey abhorred by the business practices of Paypal. I hadn't used my Paypal account for two years, and apparently there was a  problem with a chargeback. They had not contacted me about it. For two years I knew nothing about it.

They quietly sat in the shadows of cyberspace and waited until I had funds deposited into my account, and they seized them--no notice, no warning, nothing.

It just really irked me when it was stated that "eBay had argued that its PayPal service was more secure than other payment methods and that it would reduce fraud."

It's still tyrannical by any entity to state that users "must" offer Paypal as a payment option. They won't be getting my business.......

Great to see that Australia's ACCC has helped keep Australia free from being monopolised by eBay, they may be the big dog in online sales in Australia, but the big boys (the ACCC) are just as big and bite just as bad!

Well Done to the ACCC!

Kudos for a great decision and pushing for ethical policies in a monopolised industry!

Yes , got an email during the week , from another provider : paymate.com, saying it could now be  -or will be - allowed to be used on Ebay.au  I was of the impression that paymate was owned by paypal , or it was at one time .

You can not have monopoly how great you or your firm might be. Promote business on its merits but not by force.