EBay’s Managed Payments From an EBay Buyer’s Perspective

[TripleF]

It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooo sad how money hungry companies are....they coulda just left well enough alone.

[zzyzzogeton]

Part of it is one of those "stock things". Many companies are great until they go public and then all of a sudden, they have to make more money to meet the "profit expectations" of the investors. Then the company goes down hill from there, always trying to squeeze another penny of profit.

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

I had a business ethics class where we talked about who should be the highest priority for a business. Is it the employees? Is it the customers? Is it the community? Is it the investors & shareholders? Each may have different goals, yet each needs the business to be successful. There can also be time-factors (long-term vs short-term) and many other factors (technology changes, market changes, competition, etc). It's not an easy question.

[1967redrider]

I haven't used eBay for knife purchases for years now, since they instituted their "linked accounts" policy in which they wanted me to provide my credit card information so it could be linked to my PayPal account. I think this was more of a PayPal policy but at the time PayPal was the only payment option for eBay buyers. Since my credit card is tied to my checking account, the last thing I needed was to have my bank account that my mortgage was paid out of compromised/hacked. So now I just use eBay to follow what things are selling for.