Sarge - The person I just talked to at ebay said some different things, first it isn't a done deal about dropping pay pal since it would cost ebay a boat load of money, if it does come to pass the only thing you won't be able to do is pay your ebay fees with pay pal, lets see how long that lasts when peoiple go back to sending ebay a check in the mail. Sellers will still be able to except pay pal by sending the buyer an invoice or they can go back to snail mail payments.
Ebay is having several issues with money and different states over the sales tax thing they started, it seems if the state the seller is locate in doesn't require tax to be collected good old ebay is just pocketing that money plus the issue of charging fee's including the sales tax are being challenged.
Long and short ebay is getting out of hand and its why I stopped selling on ebay.
Walt