gibbergibber - 11:22 pm on Sep 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

--Just goes to show you how unsafe paypal and ebay are--

Ebay's forums are full of people who would love to use a different service... but who do they use?

Ebay has a monopoly. It might not have a technical lock-in like Windows, but in practice there's no real way for rivals to compete with Ebay, even though there are plenty of potential customers for a rival service.

And of course as soon as you become a profitable monopoly, there's almost no pressure to maintain quality control on your product. You can do what you like, and your customers have nowhere else to go.