eBay to buy PayPal - yet another ruination of a good thing :(

From: Bruce Ray <bkr_at_WildHareComputers.com>
Date: Mon Jul 8 10:41:07 2002

...or sounds like an opportunity for an emerging new competitive business -
SellamPal. ;-)

Bruce Ray

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: OT: eBay to buy PayPal - yet another ruination of a good thing :(


>
> I just saw on the news that eBay is buying PayPal for US$1.5 billion.
> Good for the folks at PayPal, but this does not bode well for PayPal
> customers if eBay's history of trying to wring profits out of it's
> customers in creative ways is any indication. It also does nothing for
> competition.
>
> This sucks.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
>
>  * Old computing resources for business and academia at
www.VintageTech.com *
Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 10:41:07 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:35:01 BST