on 2004/11/06 10:35 AM, Simon Worby at simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I see your point, but it's a market economy. Merchants don't have to accept
> c/c. If enough people didn't like it, rivals would set up and thrive.
If there were 20 different commonly-accepted credit cards a market would
work properly. With 2.5 and the large financial institutions all signed up
with one or another it doesn't. That's just reality.
Ditto e-auctions and OS's unfortunately. In the latter case various tactics
have been used to throttle competition, but Bill bought himself a president
and got the hounds called off.
Personally I've stopped trading on eBay for this and other reasons. Voted
with my feet. (e-feet? no, that doesn't sound right... :-) )
Andrew
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