Original story Personally, I like Paypal and use it pretty much exclusively, but that doesn't mean I would want to be told I had no other choice. eBay really needs some competition
I didn't read the whole article and, even though I have an eBay account, I don't use it often. My Father, however, recently had to accept paypal for payments because of his activity on eBay, bit annoying as he has got by without it but OK. 4am the day after eBay makes him use Paypal and someone takes £1050 from his Paypal account, he rings up their non 24hr helpline to get a, let's say, non English person, who says he must report this all online. The moral of the story is that my dad has a short temper and eBay and Paypal together have annoyed him, eBay though is too good not to use.
Its ridiculous that they are allowed to abuse their monopoly in this fashion, do people not remember that other great monopoly with similar practices (MS)
Who uses eBay/PayPal anymore anyways. Ebay charge ridiculous fees and PayPal actively go out of their way to screw you over. The best thing I ever did was quit using their crappy services.
I have to agree, ebay suck. But finding highly used alternatives is tough. The world needs a very large player to get involved. Preferably google.
I don't have any massive gripes with eBay. It does cost a bit too much to post a listing sometimes, but compared to the competitors it's far too well matured to lose out to anyone else atm. There are a handful of alternatives, but even massive companies like Microsoft failed to create anything useful enough (expo.live.com). Personally I tend to scour Amazon Marketplace (and to an extent Play.com's service) if I'm after anything that they sell, or just search Hotukdeals and check the forums' FS section. Just like pretty much every popular service on the internet though, eBay might be inferior in user-experience or features, but because of the customer-base it's almost impossible to knock over.
very bad idea of ebay to do that... but, what alternatives are there? especially if it comes to computer parts the selection of shops is not too big in the uk, so ebay is always nice even though the days of bargains are long gone.
