Techdirt: eBay Moves Closer To Forcing Users To Use PayPal rather than an open payment system. Forcing users to use PayPal will discourage even more people from using eBay. Seems like a kind of stupid move to me.
I rarely use eBay these days because of their ever-increasing fees and hassles. This move will marginalize them all the more.
Customers don't want to be forced to do things a certain way, especially if they've been able to do it that way before. Just like my My Yahoo! home page was upgraded and improved so much I just stopped using it altogether. It was fine, annoying but fine, when they had notices to give it a try. I tried the upgraded pages and hated them instantly. When my regular page was forced into the new system, I cleared off all the content and abandoned it.
eBay seems to be taking a page from the same playbook. Make your business less open, make using it more annoying (can you say double fees?) and you too can watch your market share diminish even more rapidly than if you'd done nothing at all.
Sometimes an improvement means doing nothing at all just as sometimes the best thing to do is to not do anything at all.
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9.24.2008
3.12.2008
User Error: Head Up Ass
Someone said it takes a big man to admit his mistakes and I'm not sure whether that's true or not if the truth is going to come out anyway. Either way, I'm admitting my own mistake.
Not a monster-career-ending-$80,000-worth-of-young-hookers-over-ten-years mistake but still a pretty good mistake nonetheless. That's how much Elliot Spitzer spent on call girls over the last decade. That's quite alot of paid for ass.
And I've got a post that I'm working on in regards to Mr. Spitzer and his tumble from respect, dignity and public office but let's get back to me and my mistake.
You see, I messed up when I presumed that Ebay had erased my records. No, they have not, in fact, done so. They did however figure out a way to make signing up so easy that I just created a new account without even noticing. And that's the one I'd apparently been using. Ebay isn't completely without responsibility here but the vast majority of the error is my own.
Not a monster-career-ending-$80,000-worth-of-young-hookers-over-ten-years mistake but still a pretty good mistake nonetheless. That's how much Elliot Spitzer spent on call girls over the last decade. That's quite alot of paid for ass.
And I've got a post that I'm working on in regards to Mr. Spitzer and his tumble from respect, dignity and public office but let's get back to me and my mistake.
You see, I messed up when I presumed that Ebay had erased my records. No, they have not, in fact, done so. They did however figure out a way to make signing up so easy that I just created a new account without even noticing. And that's the one I'd apparently been using. Ebay isn't completely without responsibility here but the vast majority of the error is my own.
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