In an interesting twist of events, eBay announced last week that third-party checkout solutions, like Google Checkout, will no longer be supported on eBay after June 30, 2011. eBay says that other checkout solutions (besides PayPal) are only used less than 10 percent of the time on eBay.com.

As a peace offering to those who do use other checkout systems, eBay checkout is being upgraded with a number