eBay Australia has officially dropped its proposal to move to a PayPal only system in the country.
eBay’s decision comes after sellers expressed their anger last week at a conference held by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the company’s plans to only accept PayPal on the site.
The new plan would have forced sellers to pay fees to PayPal Australia on top of the fees they pay to eBay.
After the conference, eBay said it would continue to allow sellers to accept other payment methods, but they had to offer PayPal as an option.
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eBay users everywhere were pleased when the company gave up on making PayPal the only allowable payment option in Australia. But Hitwise has taken a look at the company’s standing on that continent, underlining what was (and may still be) at stake within its borders.
eBay does pretty well as a part of Hitwise’s Shopping & Classifieds category, receiving about 29 percent of all hits. Sandra Hanchard notes, “Visits to the online Auctions industry are in fact particularly high in Australia. Auctions websites accounted for 38.11% of visits to all Shopping & Classifieds websites in May 2008 in Australia, compared to 21.35% by U.S. Internet users.”
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Australia has the highest incidence of cyber crime in the world, according to a global survey of nine countries by software security vendor, AVG.
The study, which canvassed 1000 users each in Australia, the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, and the Czech Republic, found that more than 39 per cent of Australians had been the victim of cyber crime, compared to 32 per cent in Italy, 28 per cent of Americans, and just 14 per cent in Sweden and Spain.
The most common forms of cyber theft experienced by Australians were:
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