06-13-2007, 10:15 AM
Quote:This year, eBay and Google may need the services of a British super-nanny to stop the squabbling that has erupted this week.
It started when Google sent an invitation to eBay sellers inviting them to a Boston Tea Party...
eBay may have shown its displeasure at Google's brazen move. According to a Google spokesperson, eBay's ProStores division had contacted it about integrating Google Checkout into ProStores, but he said that eBay canceled talks this week. So on Tuesday, Google stepped up the pressure by reaching out to the media to spin its Boston party as a protest against the ban, and spinning it as part of a grassroots movement by eBay sellers - bringing up the anti-trust lawsuit sellers had filed against eBay over its PayPal payment service...
full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m06/i13/s01