Paypal Splitting from Ebay

techspec

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[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Aww bless - sounds like the Ebay of the 12 years ago - defo not now.

On a brighter note Ebay will now have to stand alone again - and continually kicking people off might now seem a bad idea.

Paypal wants to be avaailable on ALL sites, even Ebay rivals (are there any) - so will be wanting to spread their wings.
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worbikeman

So will our Paypal fees be going up or down?
Or do I not need to bother asking?

RMS2

Pierre_De_Grenoble wrote: »

This says it as it should be said.. CEO sacked is what the headline should read...


http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2014/9/1412082049.html

But the decision was especially notable given eBay’s full-throated defense against the often vitriolic assault by Mr. Icahn, who called eBay among the worst-run companies he had ever seen and described Mr. Donahoe as “either incompetent or negligent.”


He's obviously met Donahoe and his "disruptive innovation".

soolin

worbikeman wrote: »

So will our Paypal fees be going up or down?
Or do I not need to bother asking?

They have not changed at all for years, even when eBay bought them they were not moved. I doubt they will change now especially if they want to encourage PayPal to be picked up by other online sites in preference to other merchant accounts. Going up might put people off, and they have no need to go down as they are on par with other merchant accounts already, perhaps marginally cheaper for small users.

Goldfizz

techspec wrote: »

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Let's hope so!

RFW

worbikeman wrote: »

So will our Paypal fees be going up or down?
Or do I not need to bother asking?

I can see both. The Ebay payments will probably be the same or move towards being all included in Ebay fees as Amazon do. Amazon have started to extend their payments system to off Amazon and their fees mirror Paypal. It only needs one big player to drop a bit for others to follow.
Other Paypal payments need to be competitive, phone payments look to be getting easier and the banks won't want Paypal to swallow up their market. Interesting times.