I just bought something there (yet another cheap Packard shutter, just because it was very cheap and any Packard shutter is potentially a helpful problem solver), and it now has the option to pay with credit card without going through PayPal. Went ahead and gave it a try.
I'm a musician too, and there's a site called Reverb that has taken much of the business away from ebay for buy/selling music gear, and they also do their own payment processing. I think there is a distinct advantage to it vs. using a third party like PayPal. As a Reverb buyer/seller, it looks to me like ebay is playing catch-up to their successful model. Though, I had thought that ebay buying PayPal and then tightly integrating it was supposed to be accomplishing the same thing? I guess not?
Is the real story here that they're looking to sell off PayPal?
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