- - - ACCC has given a response regarding E-bay's PayPal only rule, which was due to start June 17 - - - now to be delayed until ACCC finalises its ruling - - - Looking good!!!!

GLOBAL auction site eBay's plan to force customers to use its payments subsidiary PayPal for transactions on its online auction site in Australia has hit a major hurdle.

The competition regulator yesterday released a draft proposal to revoke eBay's immunity from anti-competitive sanctions for enforcing the payment policy on its site.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel said eBay's conduct was a threat to competition in Australia's online payment marketplace.

"Given eBay's position as Australia's leading online marketplace, the notified conduct will substantially reduce competition to supply online payment services to users of online marketplaces more generally," Mr Samuel said.