Ebay owns Paypal so they want you to use Paypal. However, via Paypal, you can use credit cards ie Mastercard,Visa etc.
Very few sellers accept anything other than Paypal. A few have their own merchant credit card accounts.
Paypal, visa, mastercard, discover and american express.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/payingfor...
its all on there website
besides paypal, can you just plug in your credit card information or do you have to be linked with paypal ?