Billpoint
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Billpoint was the name of a person-to-person money transfer service purchased by online auctioneer eBay in 1998. Billpoint's website was taken offline while eBay integrated Billpoint into their auction service, and it did not debut again until Spring 2000 when it was relaunched as a joint-venture with Wells Fargo bank. In the meantime, online payment service PayPal debuted and became very popular with eBay's customers. eBay and Billpoint spent the majority of the next two years trying to overtake the upstart PayPal but with little success. In July 2002, eBay CEO Meg Whitman struck a deal with PayPal CEO Peter Thiel to acquire PayPal, and when the acquisition was finalized that October eBay began the process of phasing out Billpoint.
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