Australians Online

Apparently Australia is the testing ground for a new paypal only policy for eBay, where they will implement new policies for the first time.

From June 17th onwards Aussies selling on eBay will only be allowed to accept paypal - or cold hard cash. Since I doubt a buyer in Perth will really stroll to Melbourne to pay, that basically leaves paypal as the only realistic payment processor for many.

Some people are not too pleased about it due to higher pricing on paypal transactions from the sellers vantage point.

Wow, surprise surprise - paypal is owned by eBay, who would have guessed?

If you happen to be totally irate over this, and want to tell off some eBay executives you have the chance to do so in person on in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney from May 5 - 8, 2008 where eBay will be holding workshops to address this: link