PayPal launches AU Web site

The new PayPal Web site will allow Australian online buyers and sellers to send and receive payments to nearly 64 million PayPal member accounts around the world.

The launch of the PayPal Australia Web site, along with the integration of PayPal to the eBay Australia Web site over the next few days, is expected to make it easier for Australian eBay members to use PayPal when buying or selling online.

PayPal Australia managing director Andrew Pipolo said the local Web site was brought on by the strong demand they've received from the eBay Australian community.

Pipolo said that according to an eBay survey, 67 percent of Australian Internet users believe that online shopping is becoming safer.

"PayPal offers a secure online payment method, because a buyer's personal and financial information is never shared with a seller. In fact, PayPal maintains one of the lowest loss rates due to fraud in the online retail industry," he said.

Pipolo assures that PayPal employs "leading security experts and utilises state-of-the-art systems to keep members' financial information safe from intrusion, preserve customer satisfaction and minimise losses."

The total dollar volume of payments initiated through the PayPal system in 2004 was US$18.9 billion (approximately AU$25 billion).

Earlier this month, PayPal.com announced it accepted payments in Australian dollars, eliminating the need for Australian users to convert currency and pay exchange fees for purchases and sales.

PayPayl also announced that a portion of the Australian PayPal homepage has been devoted to raising money for UNICEF's tsunami relief program at no charge, enabling donations to be made to UNICEF through PayPal.

eBay acquired PayPal in July 2002 as a replacement for its own Billpoint payment system.

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RE: "In fact, PayPal main ...Anonymous -- 20/01/05

RE: "In fact, PayPal maintains one of the lowest loss rates due to fraud in the online retail industry." .
But eBay buyers beware: scam artists and conmen are daily finding new ways to steal from customers. To read just a few of the more recent acts of fraud, go to JUST SAY NO TO EBAY at www.notoebay.bravehost.com .

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Your story (which is obviously ...Anonymous -- 20/01/05

Your story (which is obviously just a cut & paste of PayPal's PR blurb) infers they have started a dedicated Australian site. The obvious conclusion could be drawn that we'll finally get the same benefits as Americans, like being able to transfer funds into our PayPal account from our local bank account, instead of having to link the account to a credit card. This is not so. The 'site' is only a localised front-end (home page) after which you are then using the US system which still restricts Australian's use of PayPay, e.g. the bank account example. I would have expected zdnet to dig a little deeper, asking a question or two, etc. rather than just p**** on what PayPal wants us to think!

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PayPal will soon be supported ...Anonymous -- 21/01/05

PayPal will soon be supported by our own Australian Auction site, OZtion.
OZtion is a new 100% Australian owned online auction & cl****ified site which is built specially for Australian. ID, Email and Address Verification are in place to ensure a safe environment to trade. If you are curious about it, go to www.oztion.com.au

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Oztion supporting PayPal Anonymous -- 18/03/06 (in reply to #120112403)

There still to date 17 March 06 no intergration of PayPal into the oztion site.

You can tick a box to say you accept PayPal but checkout will not allow your PayPal address to be sent to the buyer.

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I think whether we like PayPal ...Anonymous -- 16/03/05

I think whether we like PayPal or not it is something that is going to have to be used by sellers to gain more sales as PayPal is very friendly for buyers to use and buyers like the protection PayPal offers. Sites like our new shopping community, www.eFINDeBUY.com.au, have to support PayPal and other payment facilities so buyers and sellers have the choice to use those payment facilities if they so desire.

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Forget PayPal altogether.The q ...Anonymous -- 24/04/05

Forget PayPal altogether.The quicker there is serious competition to eBay and PayPal the better.Recent cases of fraud simply were duds from the start and one of the first things PayPal want to do with a complaint/claim is inform you that they are not responsible for your loss.Basic seller information provided could never have been verified as accurate. eBay seller "tolenam" Name: Steve Batchelor Address: Joondanna WA 6060 Phone: 0894439564
Hotmail: bestina44@yahoo.com
The phone number is invalid and incorrect, we all know how easy hotmail address's are to open and close.There is no Batchelor listed at all in the Telstra directory for any Batchelor in Joondanna.
Point with PayPal for many newbies like myself is we don't register with PayPal until we lose out with an eBay seller and of course they promote PayPal as the most secure way to trade and like myself we register for PayPal in the hope we don't receive rubbish contact details like eBay provided in the first bad experience.It turns out to be more of the same...Competition would do one of two things.Either they become proffessional and take some responsibility or they can join ANSETT.

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eBay buyers beware! The Paypal ...Anonymous -- 30/05/05

eBay buyers beware! The Paypal buyer protection scheme offers absolutely no protection unless the seller has accumulated at least 50 feedback items (I'm not sure if these have to be all positive). And after that it doesn't offer much.

eBay buyer protection in the case of a "non-selling seller" takes no action against the seller at all. They simply ask you to work it out with the seller.

That's even when the seller has decided that he can get a better price, tells you that he won't complete the sale, and relists at a higher price!

I have dealt through eBay for many years, with almost no problems, then a week ago dealt with a seller who was "selling on behalf of his friend".

I won the auction (at a good - for me - price). The seller became difficult to contact so I requested escrow. The seller agreed, then quickly decided to deny his agreement and the item (perhaps an identical item? - pull the other leg!)was listed at a price $270 higher than my winning bid, in his friend's name - while the seller refused to complete the transaction with me.

I had long expected that I would run across someone like this on eBay, and I managed to escape without financial loss. But I must say that contacting eBay about breaches of their rules is a pointless exercise. Their response is " dialogue with the seller, and work it out between yourselves".

The seller and his friend have broken the rules, but are winners in eBay's eyes.

My advice is to be very, very careful whom you deal with on eBay, and DON NOT rely on eBay to enforce any rules - the will not!

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