In a brief email message with no prior warning, PayPal have announced the closure of their Online Merchant Network site, which required specific registration, and have moved the content into a new open-to-all section of the main site, called the Business Resource Centre.

I received an email invitation today to participate in a heavyweight survey from PayPal UK.
The survey is in 3 parts, which I’ve posted in full in BuildaSkill’s PayPal discussion board.  Completing part 3 allows you the option to enter yourself into a GBP 1,000 prize draw (did that but doubt I’ll win – I never [...]

Quietly added to the list of major currencies in which PayPal users can hold funds within their account, as well as withdraw to bank, is the Thai Baht and Philippines Peso.
These currencies have very recently appeared without any English language announcement that I can find.  I learned of the additions only because of a [...]

Newly released data shows that PayPal is up to five times more fraud-prone than regular credit cards, based on statements made by eBay to the Australian ACCC last year.
Financial Fraud Action UK, the voice of the industry in the UK for financial fraud matters, (previously known as APACS) has published the latest payment industry fraud [...]

I have two PayPal accounts – one in the US and one in the UK.  Previously, I have been able to transfer funds between them via personal payments with no sending or receiving fee.  Since 1st July I have not been able to do so.
All month I have been battling my way past a chain [...]

Several times last year, and the year before, eBay raised the topic of Community Courts to mediate in feedback dispute resolution cases.
During 2007, on eBay UK, the idea even went as far as to solicit registrations from would-be jurors, particularly amongst PowerSellers.  Last year, simultaneous with most of the world getting the new dispute resolution [...]

Robbert de Haan, Marketing Director of PayPal Benelux has posted in the official PayPal blog, providing proof positive that eBay Corporate’s much derided culture of surviving targets reset quarter-to-quarter, has been revised to a much shorter monthly redirection phasing.
Registered members of the BuildaSkill forums can read and discuss his post in our eBay Buyers Rules [...]

When I first saw this headline on the news-feed, my immediate reaction was, “Woohoo, they’re cutting some slack for eBay sellers!“  After all, with the raft of changes since January 2008, most profitable eBay sellers have become not-for-profit organisations, haven’t they?
Sadly, my assumptions were both short lived, and wrong …

The official PayPal blog has announced that the 2009 PayPal Developer’s Conference will take place in San Jose from June 16th to 18th this year.  In what may be a cost-cutting exercise, the conference will take place at eBay’s North Campus.
The annual eBay and PayPal Developer Conferences are normally part of the preliminaries for eBay [...]

Dominik Dommick, senior director of marketing at PayPal Germany, has posted on the official PayPal blog that the German division has doubled the number of accounts in the last two years, and now tops 10 million.
His brief announcement comments on several milestones in the growth, and concludes with the assertion that they are the leading [...]

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board has announced that it has “recently been considering PayPal’s and eBay’s rules that prohibit merchants from surcharging customers for the use of PayPal, and from discouraging the use of PayPal.”
Following its review, the Board said it was not going to impose any new regulation now on PayPal’s [...]

The second segment of the Top Sellers Summit in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Monday night was presented by the SE Asia PayPal team. It mainly focussed on changes to the PayPal site interface for merchants, and the disputes and claims procedures.
Based on a question to the attendees, and the response from Amy of PayPal, [...]

eBay India were slow to introduce PayPal, and over the last year massively improved and grew their localised PaisaPay payment product.  In the second half of 2008, PayPal began making huge inroads onto the Indian platform, and now that they have an Asia-region office in Singapore, and the regional roll-out of localised Paypal websites has [...]

Beth Strobel, PayPal’s Senior Director of the Promotions and Partnership Team has posted on the PayPal official blog to remind everyone of holiday rebates, discounts and other special offers by selected PayPal merchants.
Starting yesterday (Cyber Monday), retailers such as Blue Nile, Overstock.com and eToys are offering cash rebates on purchases made with PayPal.  Details vary [...]

Is it a glitch, or is it a new policy?  Turbo Lister (TL) is telling me it’s a new policy (as the screen shots below prove) that PayPal is no longer available for listings on the Malaysian and Philippines eBay sites.
Yet, when I click through to the Malaysian and Filipino eBay sites, all appears normal [...]