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The Titanium PowerSeller had become eBay's number one feedback seller in June 2005 selling DVDs and CDs. The owner has been unavailable for comment. <BR>Ethical Technologies founder Scott Samuel said his company is facing financial problems. He said eBay had threatened to pull its access to the eBay API for failure to pay its bills, and that a payment plan was in the process of being worked out. Samuel created the Honesty auction counters, which he sold to Andale in 2000. <BR><BR> The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that PayPal is gearing up to compete with Google's long anticipated payment service. The Journal said Google has been quietly testing "GBuy" for the past nine months. <BR><BR> AuctionBytes released the results of its Online Payment survey conducted in January. PayPal is used by over ninety-four percent of respondents. Some sellers expressed concerns with the service, including fees, customer service, Security and spoof emails, dispute resolution, accessibility issues, and a concern over a lack of competition. Respondents were also looking for a method to facilitate international payments. <BR><BR> The Wall Street Journal reported that America Online and Yahoo will begin charging commercial mailers a fee to route their email directly to a user's mailbox to avoid passing through spam filters. Emails that are not sent through the paid service will continue to go through the filters and will have a chance of making it to the recipient. <BR><BR> Joining me now to talk about how this will impact users and publishers is Phillip Davies, President of Tias.com, a marketplace for antiques and collectibles dealers. <BR><BR> <BR>Most of us have probably experienced seeing spam show up in our inbox, while some legitimate email gets filtered. But why did Yahoo and AOL decide to charge companies for sending emails to their account holders? <BR><BR> Will email that doesn't go through new service get through to the intended recipients? <BR><BR> How much will it cost senders to go through the new program? <BR><BR> So for merchants on Tias.com who have Yahoo and AOL email accounts, how will this change impact them - will customer orders and inquiries go through? <BR><BR> It's certainly an interesting issue, and one we'll be following Thank you for joining me. Phil Davies, President of Tias.com. <BR><BR> And On the Lighter Side. - Who knew geeks and VCs were so interesting? ValleyWag is the latest blog to tackle gossip, and this time the targets are Silicon Valley techies. In one post, we see a photo of Google's "snack room." It looks more appealing than eBay's frog salads. (Photo) We'll be keeping an eye out for any auction-industry scoops. </BODY> </HTML>