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  1. I think you are legally wrong because of the recent changes to Ebay's 'check-out' process. In the old days, buyers went to Paypal to pay the seller. In these new, and frankly more convoluted, days Ebay manages the entire payment process. Ebay does this because it is paranoid about loosing potential listing fees and selling fees income. This is what happens: (a) buyer buys (b) Ebay invites/suggests/encourages the buyer to pay © Ebay then manages the entire payment process as if it was a Merchant. Ebay does, unlawfully in my opinion, exchange your Ebay information with Paypal using strange cookies 'co.uk' - not Ebay.co.uk or Paypal.co.uk but just plain 'co.uk'. In English law (I'm definitely not a lawyer) at the very least Ebay is acting as the seller's agent by arranging and supervising - actually absolutely controlling every aspect of - the entire payment process. You can not pay the seller directly. Paypal will object if you try to pay for an Ebay item and you click the radio button for 'Ebay Payment'. Ebay will and does block you having details of the seller's Paypal account. Ebay, being just another of those arrogant (in my opinion of course) US of A companies has yet to understand it can not keep taking the money then deliberately preventing the buyer get lawful satisfaction from Ebay as the seller's agent. Incidentally the London Ebay fax number is 020-8605 3001 and you can get the directors names and addresses from Companies House for just £1. Any skilled proficient web programmers (plus MySQL clustering experts and PHP fans) want to work for nothing initially building a competitor to Ebay? It will take 2 years to make something faster, better and more consumer friendly than slow, bureaucratic and cumbersome Ebay. The hardest thing is getting a suitable domain name and then getting domains all around the world. Initial enquiries to ebay (edit) [sOLA 009871]
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