eBay Germany faces PayPal probe
Found on The Register on Thursday, 25 February 2010
eBay Germany is being investigated by competition authorities concerned that its tying of PayPal to certain eBay purchases is in breach of consumer law.
The FCO said it had yet to launch a full investigation but was looking into the complaints. The regulator noted that the rule change meant sellers were charged an extra 1.9 per cent on sales made.
eBay has already got into trouble in Australia where it tried to force almost all transactions to go through PayPal. Users were unimpressed, as were Ozzie consumer protection groups, and eBay performed a swift U-turn. Similar moves in the US also went down badly.
Nobody wants Paypal; there are way too many bad stories about them to consider Paypal suited for anything money-related. I'll keep my money as far away from them as possible.