PayPal Shipping Label Changes; new format via eBay

As of November 15, 2011, PayPal has required ALL businesses shipping via PayPal to login and out of eBay, worse ANY business with more than one employee must use the same administrative login.
This means any business MUST give out administrative passwords to all employees, thus providing critical access employees that might be new or simply not to a level of trust for such information.

In speaking with an arrogant PayPal Supervisor, I received the usual condescending Obamanite rhetoric.
Worse they informed me if we took our USPS shipping elsewhere we would not be fully covered under their already terrible and fraud ridden seller protection program.

Why PayPal made such a decision without polling their merchants has got to be one of the biggest corporate blunders I can think of.
Of coarse this is typical of eBay/PayPal to roll out changes without testing for bugs or asking their merchants for input; this of coarse has much to do with the contempt PayPal has for their merchants.

It has also been put forth by many merchants “in the know”, that the main reasons for this change is to provide the illusion of growth for the eBay sector (which has been struggling) for their stockholders; this is obviously corporate malfeasance.
As well this shifts all shipping for PayPal/eBay to one sector providing larger postal & UPS discounts for eBay, of which they only pass this along to a their select few “Top Sellers” and pocket the rest, including us poor shlubs that are only PayPal customers!!!

This said, while we already ship our larger packages via FedEx, our company is now moving all our USPS shipping to PB Smart Postage.
Although it should be noted that Stamps.com is not a very good alternative, with long hold times, poor customer service, and constant server and printing issues.

See Also:
PayPal Dishonesty; Fraud, Customer Service; Review, Positives and Negatives

Verdict: It SUCKS Sorry for the crudeness, but when one considers what an arrogant bunch PayPal/eBay are, this simply needs to be said.
If you own stock in eBay, pull it out as this company is obviously on their way out (not just due to this but in many of their business practices that often result in financial loss for merchants due to fraud).

Google, PayPal, FedEx & Other Business Articles

This post is more of a referral of what I think are articles anyone in business should read.
In the case of Google, PayPal, or Pet Mtn, these are must reads for anyone who places morals above business.

(1) Google Panda Update
This article proves that Google’s Panda update of 2011 is nothing more than a sham.
The company line is that Google is attempting to get rid of content farms (hence the nickname “Farmer Update”; however this article proves otherwise.
This article puts forth that this is basically a cover for “Content Scrapers” that plagiarize excellent original content websites then post this content on their websites for Google Adsense.
IMO, from what I have seen this may not be always the case, but certainly spammy content sites have jumped over good content web sites.

This article also has links to further Google information as well

(2) Google Apps, Enterprise, Adwords, & Wallet Review
This article reviews Google’s total lack of customer service with their extremely misguided Google Apps transition that resulted in lost accounts, lost paid site search and much more.
The canned, circular responses from India never solve any problems.

Combined with the dishonest or non responses by Google Adwords & Adsense, this article shows that Google is NOT a company small business person would want to be in a business relationship with

(3)PayPal
This article is both positive and negative; providing an opinion on PayPals excellent and simple website integration, simplicity of sales, and more.
As well the unfortunate negatives are also explored such as poor fraud protection and a technical department with absolutely no interest in whether their clients succeed or not.

(4)Tom Paterson Process for Productivity in Business
This is 100% positive business post/article dealing with Tom Paterson and his life accomplishments in business productivity.

(5)FedEx Claims, Technical Support
This article is from this website/Blog, but I though I would include it too.
This article deals with an otherwise excellent shipping company, that has absolutely no understanding of customer service or honesty when they do make a mistake and damage others property (their technical support could get some “Schooling” in customer service/respect as well).

(5) Pet Mountain; Alleged Parasite Retailer, (TruAqua section of article disabled, although comments still available)

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