Nickname: mj

Review: Paypal is great for the buyer. A trusted system. For the seller? It is SHOCKINGLY bad !! Every regular seller and his dog will move to another way in a heart beat!! Paypal freezes accounts, performs chargebacks, limits your account - just because, they feel like it.

Date reviewed: Jul 18, 2008 10:26 PM

Nickname: Shiblee

Review: Paypal & eBay are crummy. Welcome Gbuy!

Date reviewed: Jan 6, 2007 7:31 PM

Nickname: John Dill

Review: The fees PayPal charge are too high.

Date reviewed: Jul 5, 2006 4:18 PM

Nickname: DW

Review: Excellent article! Excellent news! I am so glad to see some pressure put on eBay to start working, and reconsider the end consumer a priority. So much of eBay's attitude of late is all about how much money they can get out of people. Instead of realizing that the sellers are paying all of eBay's meal ticket. My auction fees need to be lowered. Enough of this. Let's learn some customer service all over again, before we all are forced to leave for greener pastures. Maybe next week it won't be my business going broke, maybe it will be a headline that reads: "eBay files for bankruptcy" and we can all do a dance on their grave. Just maybe eBay cannot ignore the sellers any longer and must forget about Wall Street expectations and make some decisions on how to "survive." Gbuy, Gwallet, Alibaba, Tabeo, it's all positive in my book! Meg Whitman is not a rocket scientist. You should have bought a search engine instead of a phone company, duh, Meg, duh! :)

Date reviewed: Jun 30, 2006 5:36 PM

Nickname: BellaVistaProducts

Review: I love Google, even though they are taking over the world I still love and respect them. But they are just way behind in the online payment market. I just think that PayPal's five-year headstart is going to be incredibly tough to beat. As a person whose eBay fees routinely top $15,000 a month, I am very happy because this just may lower the PayPal costs. Who knows? We'll see.

Date reviewed: Jun 29, 2006 5:37 AM

Nickname: iHatePaypal

Review: I cannot wait for GBuy's debut. I think PayPal simply charges its customer too much. Worst of all, its customer service sucks!

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 11:56 PM

Nickname: aggrieved

Review: I welcome Google's entry into this market and hope that they introduce a level playing field for buyers and sellers, versus the PayPal model which almost always sides with the buyer and promotes online fraud. There are loads of PayPal horror stories in the eBay online forums etc. documenting the disadvantages of PayPal. So GBuy is a welcome competitor that will offer customers a real choice especially for international transactions

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 11:46 PM

Nickname: jay

Review: Google has started competition in various areas for existing players. It will be definately interesting to see how Google is planning to take on companies like Microsoft, eBay, and Yahoo. If Google involves itself in many fights at a time, it will definitely hurt core competency, credibility and profitability in long term.

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 10:59 PM

Nickname: Marty

Review: I was at the first ever WWW conference. I have been an eBayer for years and have watched Google rise mainly because AOL featured them. Google is way overhyped. They did search well (again getting noticed because of deal with AOL). But what else have they done that was incredible? Gmail? Maps? What? Google is reaching because their search engine has been the victim of its own success and deteriorated. With all the promotion going on to go up the ranks, people that don't even have the product you need make it to the top. It's a mess, if they aren't careful other new companies will eat their lunch. Gbuy will be forgotten in a few years. Every search on Froogle? Use Gbase much?

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 9:05 PM

Nickname: EddieAtCha

Review: I use PayPal and like the service. I also prefer McDonald's french fries, but appreciate Burger King for keeping their prices down. I agree with the other commenter -- this move will benefit consumers.

Date reviewed: Jun 28, 2006 8:33 PM