Use Jajah and Be Kicked Out Of eBay
JAJAH is a new type of VoIP service, Skype-like. But unlike Skype, you don’t have to register for an account. Just fill in your phone numbers and the recipient phone numbers, and you talk through the phone, at a very low rates.
JAJAH releases a set of Jajah buttons that you can embed in your eBay listings, as another option for you to communicate with your buyers. This was banned by eBay recently. If found that you are using anything, other than Skype, which was an eBay company, your listings will be terminated.
Reasons? The buttons are a violation of the site’s links policy which requires that all eBay interaction take place within the eBay marketplace, an eBay spokesperson says.
Wanna do business on eBay? Obey or be punished! 
Hi Jenny,
JAJAH advised to its facilities in eBay…
Read http://blog.jajah.com/index.php?/archives/240-JAJAH-Buttons-Give-eBay-Users-the-Freedom-to-Talk.html
Do you have the announcement by eBay ?
Hi Webworm, that is not allowed anymore since Oct 5. Here’s a piece of the news http://tinyurl.com/28hufp
Good for Ebay, they have a set of rules in place to facilitate the use of their site and anyone wishing to use it MUST abide by them….
rules MUST be abided by? in principle, i agree.
why then does ebay think it can pick and choose the ‘rules’ (i.e. other organisations’ terms & conditions, as well as actual laws and by-laws) it will abide by?
there are many instances, of which concert & event ticket auctions provide a perfect example. ebay wriggles around, employing legal devices and denying all responsibility - all in order to keep facilitating auctions and thereby keep its revenues rolling in.
by exhibiting such behavior, ebay has lost all moral authority to defend its own rules. you simply cannot have it both ways.
ebay should also learn to actually apply its own rules consistently. browse through ebay and you’ll find examples of links that contravene its own inviolate rules.
but what does ebay do about them? not much it seems, presumably because they don’t feel threatened by them - as they obviously do by these jajah button things.
ebay is increasingly abusing its dominant market position, in much the same manner as e.g microsoft and the bloated telecom giants. time and time again it’s been proven that no single entity can be trusted to own an entire supply chain in a (near-) monopoly market.
ebay creates barriers to entry through its sheer size and is hoovering up the whole supply chain. it suppresses open debate by putting the dread fear of de-listing into its now locked-in customers and imposes ever-stricter rules and ever-higher tariffs.
hardly a recipe for innovation and competition, is it?
ebay and paypal have got many markets all but stitched up. yes, there are always new entrants with equal or better platforms, but they rarely prosper. why? because of ebay’s sheer size - nothing else.
(but let’s see what happens when google gets going. heaven help us.)
now here’s the thing - i really admire ebay’s platform, but less and less so because of their bullying behavior. paypal is also very good at what it does, but it’d be uterly unacceptable if ebay forced its users to use it for evrything.
just because ebay owns something, doesn’t give them the right to restrict choice. even microsoft and the telecoms have had to learn that particular lesson. i appreciate that a lot of people use ebay to make their living and have no viable alternative auction site. even so, that monopolistic power can never give ebay the right to be so arrogant.
what truly astonishes me though is just how many intelligent people seem happy to accept ebay’s overall behavior and defend them.
yes, it’s clear, jajah and others have broken the rules - but ebay has been fighting dirty for a long time now.
perhaps throwing a little dirt back in the bully’s face can’t do any harm?
I dont think it was fair for eBay to do that to them. Yes, sure enough Jajah has to abide by rules but, they could have gone into partnership with them. I think it all has to do with Skype not going so well for eBay. I still have love for eBay though.
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