Scot Wingo’s eBay Strategies Blog informs us that eBay has added Google Checkout to its list of payment options.

After looking through eBay’s somewhat hidden terms of use, (click on the “show” link beside “some examples”) he concludes:

This is eBay flexing their trust and safety muscles to control the way sellers take credit cards (and as a side-effect, limit their leverage with Google Adwords) if they feel it starts to infringe on the PayPal asset.

It’s ironic they would do this here, and in the same breath go to Congress and fight the Net Neutrality battle.

You can’t fight for an open internet one day and then implement policies that close the walled garden the next.

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