B J Foster wrote:
> Pagey wrote:
>> "B J Foster" wrote in message
>> news:4882b3c5$0$30465$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>>> Pagey wrote:
>>>> "Species 8472" wrote in message
>>>> news:g4sqve$dp$2@yoda.apana.org.au...
>>>>> Ebay's ineptness when it comes to the way Ebay and PayPal try to
>>>>> forcibly
>>>>> manipulate the way the buyer/seller relationship can be developed
>>>>> knows no
>>>>> bounds, and it's this reason that so many sellers are abandoning
>>>>> Ebay for
>>>>> real Australian online selling sites like Oztion, sellmystuff,
>>>>> etc.
>>>> I just had a look through Oztion and found that most sellers were
>>>> using PayPal for the items I wanted - how ironic.
>>> According to these:
>>> http://www.oztion.com.au/?r=249221
>>> http://www.oztion.com.au/vshops/?r=249221
>>> http://www.oztion.com.au/Company/news.aspx?r=249221&id=200759#200759
>>> there are 300,000 members, 28,000 selers and 2,454 shops. You
>>> checked each one?
>>
>> On the items I wanted - yes.
>>
>>
>
> Apologies - I'll read it properly in future.
>
> As a seller, I have listed items on both sites. Because OzTion's fees
> are considerably lower on OzTion, I have reduced the starting prices
> accordingly.
I recently used Oztion for the first time. Bought a couple of items with buy
it now.
The seller would only accept bids from "Verified Bidders" or something, I
can't remember the correct term, so I gave Oztion a dollar using my credit
card to satisfy that condition.
I noticed that to be a seller on Oztion you have to satisfy some sort of
identity check.
Anyway the seller offered PayPal as an accepted form of payment but the
wording of the listing stated that direct deposit was the preferred method.
I used PayPal and got the items in a timely fashion.
It was an auction for multiple identical items and I noticed that the unsold
ones immediately appeared on eBay for the same price after the Oztion
auction had ended.
> As more buyers realise that they are effectively paying eBay's fees I
> imagine that the exodus will gain momentum. Trading Post (ie Telstra)
> also started auctions recently. Seems that eBay.oz is on a course of
> self-destruction.
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