In a statement issued on Friday June 13, online auction site eBay says it will challenge the Australian competition watchdog’s ruling to block a plan to force its users onto a PayPal-only payments system. “There will be a period of negotiation, but what happens next, I couldn’t speculate,” an eBay spokeswoman told The Sydney Morning … Read more
ONLINE auction site eBay has failed in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal to pay for items on the auction website. The move by Ebay would have meant that users would have had just two payment alternatives: either use Paypal or cash on delivery. Last night the The Australian Competition and Consumer … Read more
The short answer is no! The longer answer is that social media can be used for marketing purposes, but that is not what its purpose is for most people. Members of sites such as Facebook and Myspace usually tend to join for social reasons such as hanging out with friends, although business networking is becoming … Read more
Marketing Pilgrim reports that Ebay is considering selling Skype, possibly to Google! Quoting an article in The Financial Times, the site reports that although the company is growing and showing good returns, it doesn’t fit with Ebay’s core business model. The most likely buyer, according to the ‘buzz’, is Google, because it would fit with … Read more
