Multi-vendor e-com (Score 1)

Was it really worth 1.5b to ebay to purchase paypal for their current market segment? Seems to me that they are now (with Paypal) in a much better position to attract some of the small-med sized vendors/manufacturers who can't afford a full dedicated ecom site or want more exposure, and push their product through ebay, not having to worry about setting up separate billing systems for each vendor, simply a paypal account.