$1,500,000,000 for PayPal

> Just read that Ebay is buying PayPal for
> $1.5 Billion.

That's outrageous. Where can I get in on this game where money isn't real to people? (maybe my thinking in that way is holding me back from the big money)

My big problem with all this is that Ebay could have, with their brand name weight, effectively taken almost all of the market right out from under paypal's nose.

Imagine this scenario: What if ebay had started their own branch to handle payments the way paypal does? An ebay shootoff like this wouldn't have the problem of people being afraid to register, because, "hey, it's ebay...". Everyone knows ebay.

They could have even have went so far as to refuse to allow seller's to use paypal to pay for auctions:) Or they could have went the more civil route and simply undercut paypal's rates (but what's the fun in that?)

> Makes you want to put your thinking cap on,
> doesn't it...

It does, John. Too bad I lost it somewhere in my garage. I'll just have to go with the goofy looking beret.

Success,

Erik Lukas