HI All, I posted a few days ago and wanted to update. Joining the official class action is an option, search online or contact your attorney for the latest information, thousands of plaintiffs are on the books, However I will make this an after thought because it will most likely not generate any real monetary return for us and we really do all need to just move on and leave these "people" behind. The market place will take care of them. We have decided to setup accounts with 'ecrater' and 'online auction" (OLA) using Paymate (temporarily) but I am changing my main merchant gateway from paypal pro to cardaccept/SecurePay and we are integrating the carts into our sites now. We have (2) estores that sell outdoor gear and other things (not connected to ebay). We are heading into ecrater and OLA to see which one works best or maybe both, OLA has a great estore builder but you need to get in on the founders membership to make it worthwhile and its still much more economical that the ebay listings and ebay store. Besides the money ebay/paypal has cost our companies with the funds hold, the fees for listing and the ebay store has been very expensive. capitalist had it right when he said basically do what makes you money and ebay/paypal can no longer make us any money. We have hundreds of listings ready for 2010 and we decided to close our ebay store permanently and NOT LIST any further items on ebay. We are listing everything with the other sites. Concerning the funds hold, we were very upset and angry and wanted to tell someone what we thought about the situation but here are the facts, ebay and paypal do not not care what we think so why should we spend any more time with this group of corporate "folks" with small minds, move on and make money and you will have the last word. I know it is a shame that we spent all these years being loyal and not slipping around behind good ole' ebay's back and doing everything by the book and now we get slapped for it but thats life. Our company will continue to do everything by the book but it will not be the ebay/paypal book. Remember the sites we mentioned and the merchant gateway names but also do a little research, the world is resplendent with opportunities! Go and get them. If anyone wants any help, names, addresses, etc. I will be happy to help. Hey one last thought on ebay/paypal, it has been quite kind of them to allow these posts to continue, frankly I am a little confused at that because it doesn't fit their current methodology of operations. May God bless each of you that have had to go through all of this and especially the people who were so hurt financially during the Christmas season. Oh one last thing, Meg Whitman is one of the good guys, she made ebay what it used to be, she is no longer there and I have heard she is not happy with the way things have gone, she is a good conservative with decent values. Don't take my word for it, call or write and ask her what she thinks of the situation with ebay/paypal. I hate to see a goof person get blamed for something they would not tolerate.
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