Ebay Australia Customers Now Forced to Use Paypal

this is SO anoying
i don't have a credit card and i always enjoy the simplicity of doing bank transfers, and now apparently i am forced to use this crappy method.
How frustrating

can be attached to your bank account, not just credit cards.

looking around I found this website http://www.nopaypal.com/ I think eBay will lose a lot of business here

but this summary is incorrect. There is the COD option.

this is hardly surprising.

As a buyer, I only ever buy from sellers who accept PayPal, it's convenient and safer than some other methods of payment. However, as a seller, I always offer the option of cheque or cash on collection, although most people choose to pay by PayPal, if I don't sell through PayPal I don't have to pay PayPal fees on top of the eBay fees.

If eBay are going to force it's customers to use PayPal, then they should make the seller aware of the full fee upfront, before they sell their item, rather than wait until they receive payment via PayPal only to see how much of the money is going into PayPal fees. You pay one fee for listing the item, another for selling the item, then another for being paid. It should be a lot more transparent to the seller, rather than hitting them with different fees at each stage of the process.

Anyway back in the day when I used eBay for something, I was constantly annoyed because everyone either only shipped within their own country or demanded that you use Paypal.

Or was in China and wanted titanic shipping fee.

Actually one time a seller asked me to buy a type of money order that didn't exist, that was fun too.