ebid, just like ebay, own their own e-payment system (PPpay), however, unlike Paypal, PPpay is only used on ebid.
As PPpay's fees are lower than Paypal's (only by 0.1%, but then every little helps), why are ebid not actively promoting their PPpay service to the likes of online retailers and service providers such as Royal Mail, Clinton Cards etc. ? They could drop their fees to say, 3.0% in order to boost the use of the PPpay service. Thus generating money that can then be used to properly promote both ebid and PPpay.