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Ebay through making users compulsorary offer paypal as the main option or the only payment option for financial transactions on sales, is infringing article 82 of European Law.

That is through restraining a sellers right to choose the method of financial transaction they use when engaging in free trade; are in fact using a restrictive practice to abuse a monopolistic position in order to generate profits.

In laymans terms ebay are forcing users to use paypal and then take a percentage of the price in commission for themselves, when users could not freely choose to not have them involved if they wished.

This abuse of market also serves to distort the free market and increase prices, as prices now have to increase to reflect the additional commision taken by paypal / ebay.

Current signatories

philip parkinson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• John Talbot
• Gary Woodhouse
• Michael Timberlake
• Aubrey Miles
• Sue Miles
• Paul.E-arguing with ebay now!
• Kevin Smith
• Laurence Taylor
• Robert Bewick
• donna oliver
• wayne chadwick
• Andy darl
• Marcia Loveday
• Stephen Roberts
• John Scott
• Paul Warren
• J RICHARDS
• R J MacLennan Baird
• james m
• John Brown
• Steve Bassett
• Ed Hunsdale
• MIke Haseler
• nomad racing
• s. martin
• sabrina ghenaiet
• nasser-eddine
• hanne barris
• pernille dalskov
• Carl Davies
• K Stanley
• r chrystal
• David Finnie
• Rachel Mardle
• jonathan senior
• Phillip Davies
• Carole Owens
• Adam Allcock
• Louise Robertson
• Hiron Ali
• alfred uzochukwu
• J.Atyeo
• Denise Hempstead
• Angela Drury
• Debbie Askew
• Bassam Karam
• j hope
• alastair smith
• kenny broughton
• Sheila Brookes
• Julie Wade
• Clive Newell
• Ian Lansdowne
• Danny
• P. Symonds
• Louise Ezzatvar
• Craig Dixon
• adam cash
• Lee Metcalf
• James Hammond
• George Vella
• Lesley Ironside
• Susan Murphy
• S Grady
• Louise Smith
• philip rolf
• Jason Davies
• Dariusz Dubis
• Elizabeth Aubrey
• N Kershaw
• Paula Crawford
• M latif
• Chris Cooper
• juel miah
• Chris Palmius
• Joanna Welch
• Alex Smith
• DAVID CATER
• diane barlow
• ian britton
• paul haynes
• Christopher Allen
• michael johnson
• Gary Coulton
• Carol Fullbrook
• jane frost
• Judith McFarlane
• david frost
• alastair martin
• Adrian J Bottomley
• mr scott
• Andy Merrill
• jamie morrison
• Mr brown
• Greg
• Steve Cashman
• Andy Bruce
• Robert Attenborough
• Andrew McMahon
• k stocker
• A miloszewska
• G Cairns
• Charles Willcox
• Brendan Greaves
• James Barber
• Dana Massiah
• baconsdozen imperial tools
• Ania Moisey
• David Jackson
• c ward
• Alan Whitaker
• L Kinglake
• g dinnage
• anthony stanford
• Martin Langford
• Peter Schaffert
• JIM OBASA
• simon cobb
• Dee Lyons
• Christopher Smith
• Julie Smith
• Q Ali
• Paul Brownsea
• Clive Routley
• Helen Murray
• Rachael Marks
• lianne frankish
• Mike Steward power seller
• Jon Evans
• H. Liedtke
• Andrew Bell
• Stephen Brown
• Mark Timberlake
• barry foggon
• Julie Burford
• Claire Coldman
• L Dursen
• Celeste Smith
• Oliver Gibson
• K. Turner
• Danny Wakelig
• m fillbrook
• Elizabeth Sworder t/a brandyknackers
• James Warner
• V. DEBRUYNE
• Will blackburn
• gamesbite LTD
• Laura Irving
• Richard Clements
• paul lush
• Barry Ager
• Paul Midgley
• Jamie Bell
• Jamie Evans
• Richard Hyde
• Paul Qureshi
• Keith Asher
• Mary Roach
• Rickie Flack
• R Haffenden
• Jonathan Parkes
• Jason Drake
• Gary Edwards
• Laurence Taylor
• mark goacher
• James Butlin
• An eBay Seller
• Thomas Paffett
• John Greves
• Suzanne Harper
• A Wilkinson
• Annabel Schneider
• Michael Smith
• michael byron-kraus
• Shiela Seymour
• Thomas Stocker
• Marie Withers
• Michael W Cook
• Janice E Gabbott
• Mr. D.L.Davies
• M. Broadbridge
• Clive Dakers
• John Fairbairn
• james lewis
• Andrew McGarry
• Rod George
• P Bulpit
• T Willis
• Russ Lee
• Robert Irvine
• Gareth Jones
• Robert Hale
• Mark Simner
• Malcolm Wilson
• Andy Drake
• Simon Charles Payne
• Jonathan RD Hipkins
• Kenneth Weston
• Kay Tomlinson
• michael young
• Alan Hutchins
• Stuart Lyon
• Bernard Bevin
• K. Dolan
• Stephen Myers
• Gary James Bentley
• M.W.SIDDONS
• DERICK SOFTLEY
• alan stammers
• wimbledongary
• Donny Anderson
• C Davies
• richard ward
• Brian Palmer
• David Powell
• K Samukutty
• Steve Backstrom
• Mark Instone
• Daniel Bottomley
• David Bottomley
• Monica bottomley
• Roy Wade
• G.Batchelor
• Ernest Bramah
• Helen Jones
• Russell Hillier
• Robert Schofield
• ERNEST LINSTEAD
• Alan Read
• Glynn neville
• James West
• Tim Barrell
• Alan Copland
• Lisa Copland
• Ed Hands
• Ben Soden
• H Dunn
• Graham Oliver
• Safraz Ibrahim
• William Allen
• austin pickering
• David Owens
• lazydragon
• lucy curtis
• JOHN ALLEN
• Alan Bellis
• James Wesley
• Paul Brownsea
• Yael Bebb
• Richard Pietkiewicz
• David Collins
• Matthew Jaynes
• simon rolfe
• chris matson
• D.Blair
• Leslie Voyce
• martin altria
• Emma Harrison
• Darryl Shephard
• andrew matthews
• Paul Henderson
• Rain Shirley-recently robbed by Paypal AGAIN
• Andrew Jordan
• Peter Jones
• A Connolly
• Dave Graham
• Mark Lewis
• ivan lucas
• Wookey
• Joe Oetting
• David Nicol
• J wilkinson
• Wendy Marshall
• Suzanne Ellisson
• Gary Ellis
• AlienAndy
• Pamela Ellisson
• Lynn Scoones East Sussex
• Anthony Howard
• daniel marcisz
• Rickon Nye
• Arturas Rudaitis
• Maria Richardson
• Shelley Campbell
• Ian Reeves
• Tony Lennon
• Dan Shepperd
• chris ward
• Richard Walden
• Nathaniel Denchfield
• Phil Massey
• Rob Dean
• Kim Lavender-Carr
• richard faulkner
• D Bucknall
• Sheila Nye
• JB Peterson
• S McIntyre
• jane woodcock
• Richard Carling
• Justin Conway
• Mark Reid
• James Baddeley
• Charlotte Young
• Amanda Jones
• Robert Cook
• Amelia Lavelle
• Richard Fielder
• Bruce Williamson
• Steve Walmsley
• Keith Harrison
• emmanuel parton
• c leonard
• Sunny Martin
• Craig Weekes
• Isobel Selby
• Jeanette Wilks
• Alexandra Turton
• Paul Allsopp
• Camille Lee
• James Allsopp
• D Bucknall
• Brian Furness
• someone please take this to the eu commission now!
• P Bradshaw
• Haydn Latham
• John Stockwell
• Mr. A Stockwell
• ian brown
• THOMAS WILLIAMS
• Michael Stockwell
• Wullie
• w holden
• mark potter
• kim smith
• Lee Dobson
• R Haffenden
• 338 sigs. Paypal must be quaking in their boots!!
• Dean Lowe
• G Barnes
• Joanne Tattersall
• jonathan colwill
• Diarmaid O'Kane
• John Kiernan
• S WALLACE
• Sharon Jarvis
• Robert Staley
• Christine Staley
• Karl Herdman
• Charles R. Curtis
• Martin Harris
• Sarah Ludbrook
• R Webb
• Michael Gibson
• Martin Ward
• David Oliver
• helen taylor
• Tahrim
• W Hunter
• Jonathan Mitchell
• Barrie Smith
• J M Anderson
• John Jennings
• Richard Ellis
• Ricardo di Capo
• Philip N Breedon
• R. Greaves
• G. Sables
• Janet Rees
• Ben Black
• Darren Green
• Simon Walshe
• Terry Gogerty
• Rory Yeung
• Arthur S
• Quentin Turner-Zealey
• Steve Hindle
• Matthew Torrice
• Michael Tinton
• jenna mcglinchey
• Erden Teoman
• warren pritchard
• daniel wilding
• Kelly Simons
• Cristian Serdean
• Kenny Brunton
• Levente Toth
• AD Leslie
• M. Muirhead
• Marcin Mirga
• Chris Gibby
• B Goldingay
• Jaime PArker
• Luke Marson
• The Centre
• M Ferguson
• L Bailie
• s.haughton
• Martyn Wilkinson
• Peter Gorman
• louise heaslip
• Andre Townsend
• Jonathan Kubiak
• Chris Willis
• J Rawbone
• Michelle Booth
• Chase Webb (petitions.number10.gov.uk/application/)
• muhibur
• philip green
• james mcintyre
• michele mullen
• Lyn Cuthbert
• sharaf
• Ryan Kerr
• Kim E. Davies
• steven woods
• l warrington
• ali asaad
• Laura Christie
• Aidan Gartland
• Shona Cooper
• Paul Cooper
• stephen hanlon
• J Harris
• kelly head
• r sanderson
• Maureen McCourt
• Roy Openshaw
• Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
• MARGARET HANLON
• stephen mgurk
• John (I've cancelled my ebay account!) Fairlie
• Sam Horne
• Mrs A Wilson
• david whittles
• N gurr
• Anthony Robinson
• Abi Lang
• antony moore