Hello, Guv - it was the PayPal-only issue that initially brought me to the RT, where I was enthused by the knowledge that many other Australian eBayers were in the same situation as I; that is, outraged. Outraged by the flaunting of Australian legislation to which all Australian businesses complied, and outraged by the increasing knowledge that eBay had confidently expected that their application for exemption would be quietly, quietly, quietly passed through... in their hope that Australians would not notice that this was against our legislation, and in the expectation that Australians would not realise that it COULD be fought.
Of course all of us became members of eBay when it held bright shining promise, and was an exciting source/venue for buying and selling.
It became big... very big.
That is no excuse for its intention to achieve a fait accomplit which was utterly against the TPA.
As a professional, I am obliged to abide by the sections of the TPA that apply to me. I expect businesses in Australia and professionals in Australia to abide by the various sections of the TPA that apply to them. I am glad that eBay was also brought to realise that they were not exempt from a pivotal portion of Australian legislation.
eBay has many good things about it, but it's my belief eBay is coasting along now upon the goodwill of its past far more than upon anything it is doing presently. I would love to see eBay take heed of what its sellers and buyers are saying. Can we have a return to the values that made eBay so successful in the past? Or am I wishing for something that will never be?
