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(...) Not so strange: 1. Paypal has to pay the credit card discount, regardless. 2. They make money off the "float" (money that people leave in their Paypal accounts). So: 1. They encourage people to pay with money they didn't "pay a premium" for. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I don't contest anything that you said, I agree with it all. The 'strange' thing was the part that you snipped off. What's strange is that they leave this incongruous gap in their terms that allows me to make the proposal that I did - and that (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) This despite BillPoint being built into the listing page... First mover advantage strikes again. PayPal has left everyone else in the dust. eBay would better have bought PayPal. It's eerie how similar the complaints about eBay of a year or two (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I'm not so sure I would agree. I would think that eBay would be happy to get rid of BillPoint rather than assuming ownership of PayPal. I suspect that eBay thought (correctly so in my opinion) that more people would bid, and bid higher if they (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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