Skype owner eBay removes JAJAH buttons from listings: touchy, Meg?

Once these widgets were in place, the idea would be that JAJAH users who would want to talk directly to the seller need only click the widget to contact the seller.

But now it looks as though someone at eBay (maybe even CEO Meg Whitman) had a cow (sounds like lots of eBay cows this week) when they heard about it.

Does fact that eBay owns JAJAH competitor Skype- they of the $1.4 billion charge-back have anything to do with this? Well, yeah.

"Overnight, the auction giant has taken down all listings that contained JAJAH Buttons that auction holders had put up since the widgets launched," reports Amy-Mae Elliott of the Pocket-lint site.

Amy notes the email from eBay to sellers using JAJAH states: "The listing was removed because it violated the eBay Inappropriate Links policy ... links or other connections to live chat systems are not permitted."

JAJAH co-founder Roman Scharf says his company is seeking clarification from eBay.

I think I already know what that clarification ought to be: we overpaid for Skype, it isn't integrating well, so we need to protect our investment by nuking our competitors out of our neighborhood.

As if eBay were ever gonna say that..