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PayPal To Be A Required Payment Option for AU Sellers

Posted by Laurel Kline in International & Business News
Thursday, May.08.2008, 1:45 PM PT

We're making it safer for all our members to trade on eBay.com.au. To ensure members use only the most secure payment methods, it will soon be required to offer PayPal on all listings on eBay.com.au.

Changes will be introduced in two stages:

  1. All items listed for sale on eBay.com.au on or after 21 May 2008 must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods.
  2. All items appearing on eBay.com.au as of 17 June 2008 must be paid for using one of the following:
    1. PayPal
    2. Pay on pick up (i.e., paid for when picking up the item)
    3. Visa/MasterCard (with transactions processed by PayPal).

No other payment methods will be permitted.

eBay is making these changes to improve the buyer experience by  ensuring buyers have a safer electronic form of payment available to  them. Giving buyers safer payment options on eBay will help increase  buyer satisfaction and improve the marketplace overall. In addition, it allows us to offer unprecedented levels of protection to buyers and sellers, including PayPal Buyer Protection up to AU$20,000.

For more information about safer payment requirements, please review the following announcement:

Please note a small number of categories are excluded from these changes. Find out about these exclusions.

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Published Comments (2):

     
  1. trout1 wrote the following on 5/14/2008 1:13:23 PM:
    While I applaud this action, can't help it, Paypal is my favorite, have you polled the user community?
  2. PayLoadz1 wrote the following on 5/9/2008 7:47:20 AM:
    Simon Smith (PayPal Regional VP) went on to say: "We're not allowing people to offer unsafe choices, just like in this democracy you can't go out and buy heroin on the streets".

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