EBay and PayPal claim ban of Google Checkout wasn't due to paranoia

[mandy]

When online auction giant eBay Inc. barred Google Checkout from its marketplace, the move led to widespread industry speculation that eBay, which owns rival online payment processor PayPal, was discriminating against the weeks-old Google Inc. payment product. But a PayPal executive tells Digital Transactions News eBay’s action had nothing to do with Checkout’s competitive position with respect to PayPal. “That’s been overplayed,” says Todd Pearson, who as senior director for merchant services oversees sales of PayPal acceptance to online retailers. “I would expect that as Google proves their track record [in online payment processing], they’ll be treated like any other payment method [on eBay].”...

full article: http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newss...ewsid=1058

[xppman]

I suspect deals were made ahead of time.
I suspect these deals had to do with LARGE sums of money
eBay pays to Google for Ad words and the fact that at a drop of a
hat eBay could simply decide to do Ad words with another company's
search engine instead of Google's.

I suspect eBay made it quit clear who's bread was being
buttered with millions in ad revenue and as a result...
I suspect that is why TOOLS were NOT developed by
GP to make it easy for ebay sellers to point their customers to
GP to pay for their winnings way before the roll out a couple of months ago.

In essence ebay played hard ball and Google rolled over leaving probably
hundreds of thousands of sellers disappointed, who were ready to jump off PP's ship.

Right back to anti trust again guys.. Dividing up customers in back room deals
to stifle true competition between the two payment services.