Microsoft and eBay?

Melbosa · May 30, 2006, 03:45:58 PM

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=4736

Seems the Post is leaking info that M$ and eBay are in talks over joint partnerships or M$ buying eBay. Eitherway, the partnership would be a competition venture agains AOL-Google partnership, according to this article.

Mr. Analog · May 30, 2006, 03:49:33 PM

*Thinks of how badly Hotmail suffered the absorbtion*

Well, that's the end of that, if it happens (hello Amazon!)

Darren Dirt · May 30, 2006, 04:07:34 PM

...and goodbye creativity and consumer-benefitting competition and free choice!

Tom · May 30, 2006, 05:23:59 PM

And here I thought Paypal couldn't realistically get any worse

Darren Dirt · May 30, 2006, 05:32:05 PM

Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
And here I thought Paypal couldn't realistically get any worse

Don't even joke. Paypal is actually quite nice, relatively unchanged over the last 2 years and it's like a lot of Apple-designed products.

IT JUST WORKS.

Please Redmond Bill, don't do to Paypal what you did to Hotmail...

Tom · May 30, 2006, 05:36:50 PM

QuoteDon't even joke.

While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained. And its all ok, because you agreed to it when signing up. Thier TOS is just that good.

Mr. Analog · May 30, 2006, 05:39:02 PM

Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:36:50 PM
QuoteDon't even joke.
While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained.

One call to CIBC can stop that, I wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them

Tom · May 30, 2006, 05:42:05 PM

QuoteI wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them Wink

How can you use it otherwise?

especially if you dont have, and cant get a creditcard. And not have to wait days to weeks for transfers to and from paypal

Mr. Analog · May 30, 2006, 05:48:31 PM

Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:42:05 PM
QuoteI wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them Wink
How can you use it otherwise?

especially if you dont have, and cant get a creditcard. And not have to wait days to weeks for transfers to and from paypal

I do use my Visa, but it's done on a per-transaction basis only. All they have is basic information about me (name, address) and nothing else. They can't take money off my Visa without my authorization and I could stop authorizing it at any time. I don't leave a great deal of credit on PayPal (I'm not worried about losing $6 USD). My agreement is also slightly different with them than with average schmoes since I have been a member on PayPal since 2000, when they were their own company.

Tom · May 30, 2006, 05:54:57 PM

Lucky bugger. Heck, I didnt even have a real computer till 97. At least at the time I thought it was a real computer (266mhz, 64MB ram, 6GB hd) I thought it was nice...

Mr. Analog · May 30, 2006, 06:40:16 PM

The only real computer is the Commodore 64... *sigh*

Tom · May 30, 2006, 09:37:44 PM

I had a cousin that had one. I found it boring when loading the 16+ disk games...

Melbosa · May 30, 2006, 09:47:18 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 30, 2006, 05:48:31 PM
I do use my Visa, but it's done on a per-transaction basis only. All they have is basic information about me (name, address) and nothing else. They can't take money off my Visa without my authorization and I could stop authorizing it at any time. I don't leave a great deal of credit on PayPal (I'm not worried about losing $6 USD). My agreement is also slightly different with them than with average schmoes since I have been a member on PayPal since 2000, when they were their own company.

This is true until you go over that $1000 for life mark is it not?

Mr. Analog · May 30, 2006, 09:53:32 PM

Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 09:37:44 PM
I had a cousin that had one. I found it boring when loading the 16+ disk games...

What are these disks of which you speak? Audio tape is the wave of th' future!

Hey! Hey! 16K What does that get you today?

Tee hee hee hee heeeeeee. I'm x-tra tired. Maybe that's my new mutant power or coffee powers... The call me Tambit, and my power is I can kinetically charge my own adrenalin!

Darren Dirt · May 30, 2006, 11:29:24 PM

Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:36:50 PM
QuoteDon't even joke.
While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained. And its all ok, because you agreed to it when signing up. Thier TOS is just that good.

What you described is right out of "PayPalSucks.com".

Which started before eBay took over. And about a year after eBay took over, most of those types of evil activities were the exception rather than the norm.

I've heard from anti-Paypal'ers who have expressed happiness that "under new management" actually meant things got better. Hope you've never suffered the pains of what PayPalSucks.com and others have described. But in my experience, it is secure, trustworthy, and it does the job.