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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:56 pm Post subject: PayPal: It's Everywhere You Want to Be - Except Amazon |
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PayPal is making inroads among large online retailers with its merchant services offerings, but the toughest nut to crack happens to be the largest online retailer: Amazon.com. No doubt PayPal would be ecstatic if it could be an accepted payment method on Amazon.com's marketplace. But what would it take to make that happen, given that the two companies are fierce competitors both in marketplaces and in payments?
Might there come a day when you could pay for your Amazon.com purchases using PayPal? Right now, it's hard to imagine Amazon allowing eBay's online payment service on to its site in the foreseeable future. But for PayPal, it's the holy grail of retail accounts.
We asked Amazon if it would ever consider offering PayPal as a payment method; a spokesperson said the company had a long-standing practice of not discussing what it may or may not do in the future. There are clues to indicate what the answer might be, however.
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