That’s the internet to ya... as soon as you hide something, it will pop up more visible than before all over the place (including the Digg frontpage). What seems to be an eBay employee by the name of Rogelio Choy published a mild rant about how GBuy isn’t superior to (eBay-owned) PayPal, and then removed the post to emphasize this is personal, not company opinion. Now a copy of the full post is available to read up on. Quote:

I find it amusing how the general media is claiming GBuy [aka Google Checkout] will be a significant competitor to Paypal based on GBuy having near zero buyers actually using the service vs over 100MM using Paypal. Let’s recall something here folks. In its current form, GBuy is a glorified merchant account.

A charming example of sleazebay/lieworld at IT’s finest. How many times can ebay go Oops! in one week? Follow the link for more.

-- Edited by anonymous at 23:15, 2006-07-13