Australia based eBay had proposed to force all Aussie sellers to only accept paypal which we blogged about here. This inspired a massive backlash among sellers, who would have been hit with extra fees as PayPal charges them for each transaction.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [ACCC] was set to throw a wrench in eBay's evil plan on the grounds it would deny consumers choice, which appeared to "help" the ebay executives make this decision to drop the 'paypal only' rules.
Frankly speaking, it appears the ACCC cyber-slapped eBay down. Since it was reported that eBay Australia was to be testing ground for this new policy on worldwide ebay sites - one can assume that ebay will not roll it out worldwide as they had planned.
The ebay world looks to be safe now - Australia saved the day.
