posted on September 16, 2000 07:24:06 PM
January 31, 2000 San Bruno, California - AuctionWatch.com
(www.auctionwatch.com), the leading online auction service provider, today announced a key partnership with X.com that will enable buyers and sellers to efficiently and safely manage their auction payments. Partnering with X.com allows AuctionWatch.com to provide yet another important service to the auction community, simple and secure payments. To kick off this unique partnership, subscribers will receive $20 in their X.com account for signing up through AuctionWatch.com, and a $10 bonus for every customer they refer who opens an X.com account.
"We believe that our partnership with X.com enables us to offer a service that satisfies the needs of auction buyers and sellers by offering a faster, safer, and better way for buyers to receive their merchandise and sellers to obtain payment," said AuctionWatch.com CEO, Rodrigo Sales. "This service will be tightly integrated into the My AuctionWatch seller management tool, making it easy for sellers to notify buyers of this simple payment mechanism. Additionally, sellers will be able to monitor their financial transactions and overall account balance along with their ongoing auction performance at AuctionWatch.com, the one-stop comprehensive auction services provider."
Benefits
free and instant funds transfer
payments are safe, secure and private
money is immediately accessible
goods arrive faster
integrates with My AuctionWatch
"X.com is the perfect tool for the auction community," said x.com President and CEO, Bill Harris.
"We're excited about the partnership with AuctionWatch.com. Finally, there exists an online payment solution that will simplify and expedite the auction process. We're pleased to be instrumental in providing the tools that help the growth of this exciting industry."
posted on September 16, 2000 08:01:56 PMSelecto: If you wander down to the Moderator's Corner, you'll see that people have been requesting that the number of PayPal threads be limited, or have thanked AW when they did so.
posted on September 17, 2000 08:12:36 AM
The reason why there are so many threads about Paypal is that their actions affect many people, and those affected want to talk about it and get input from others.
No one is holding a gun to anyone's head forcing them to click on the topic.
But, its easy to force the Paypal off the board. Just start another post about shipping and handling charges!
posted on September 17, 2000 08:34:20 AM
I think the complaints is about the number of different threads, since this is an EBAY discussion board and for a while, you could hardly find a thread that wasn't ranting about PayPal. There is a board provided to discuss PayPal, and although some discussion is relevant to Ebay, I agree with AW's decision not to allow PayPal discussions to monopolize the Ebay board.
posted on September 17, 2000 09:32:35 AM
But, selecto does have a valid point.
Some time ago, before the current PayPal rants and when PayPal was first being announced, I made my comments (or tried to) on AW about this. I was trying to tell people that this type of service is NOT free. As I recall, several of my posts were censored (removed completely) by AW moderators.
posted on September 17, 2000 09:42:53 AM
The secret is to express one's opinion without making derogatory comments about other posters or violating other AW board guidelines (that's not meant to be accusatory--I have no knowledge of the particular threads or posts in question). As far as starting posts about known controversial issues to just "force" the PayPal posts off the boards, that seems counterproductive, if the intent is to make the board a useful, educational forum.
posted on September 17, 2000 11:19:47 AM
I've been one of PayPal's most vociferous critics. I don't like deceptive business models, and PayPal has been deceptive since day one. I don't trust my money to companies with little or no financial savvy, and PayPal continues to demonstrate astonishing naivete in important financial matters.
AuctionWatch has never "shut me down", not even a hint. Content like this is what makes the AW forum fun.
In fact, the only people we've actually seen sileced are nearly obvious shills (and those unable to conduct themselves in a debate).
posted on September 17, 2000 02:08:11 PM
Well, I will have to agree with some posters on here. I had a thread on here the other day about another payment service that was FREE and the thread was DELETED. Vanished before my eyes. I did not flame paypal, just simply stated that their fees were unfair.
I had one reply to that thread but not long after that, it was deleted.
It is plain to see that if AW does not like what is said, that they WILL lock the thread or delete it altogether.
Your thread discussing Exchangepath was deleted by Joice because it was promotional in nature. Discussing other options are OK, promoting is not.
You were also notified via email, which bounced back. I strongly suggest you check to ensure the email address you have registered with AuctionWatch is correct so the situation does not occur again.
posted on September 17, 2000 02:26:22 PM
MichelleG:
You say that it was promoting other services?
What about Checkspacebrian that is promoting his services under the AW partner board? And the other numerous threads under that board that are promoting other payment services?
I do not think that it was promoting, I was merely suggesting that maybe people should check out this other service, as I did.
We checked out Paypal through reading about it on these boards. It is the same for any other payment service, etc..., you read about it on the boards, check it out, and go from there.
I apologize if that thread was offending or promoting, but that was not my intentions.
