Google Checkout Gains Rapid Adoption
Posted by Dice on 14 July 2006 - 19:51 · 31 comments & 12904 views
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#1 Posted by pixels on 14 Jul 2006 - 19:54
- Not trusted
eBay just can't stand the thought of competition for its crappy PayPal service. They're just being bitches now because they know if they allow CheckOut then PayPal will lose accounts.
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#2 Posted by MaceX on 14 Jul 2006 - 19:56
- Yeah. eBay owns PayPal, so it's not like they want everyone to switch to google. They'd lose money.
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#3 Posted by jmc777 on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:01
- Dude, you missed out a whole load of spaces! "beenreceiving....", "companiesinclude...." etc etc.
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#4 Posted by MarkMS on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:05
- Google fans to everyone: "Google anything is the best, I trust them with my information."
Me to everyone: Experience in any particular field (medicine, engineering, or making software) will always be better. I've always had an excellent experience with PayPal and will continue to use them. To me it's fixing something that's not broken.
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#5 Posted by Xero on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:05
- I'd use Google Checkout if they added option for bank accounts, I don't want it taking funds from my creditcard only.
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#6 Posted by mx3 on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:21
- Hrm, never used any of those "notable" stores except buy.com.
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#7 Posted by viserov on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:29
- If companies like Amazon or NewEgg jumped on board, I'll be extremely happy. But, I am in the same boat as mx3, with what he said above me.
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#8 Posted by Ficman on 14 Jul 2006 - 20:37
- Paypal has been a real pain at times, sure seems like there should be an easier way...
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#9 Posted by DefensiveCore on 14 Jul 2006 - 21:06
- I would really like to see how Google handles customer service issues...
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#10 Posted by stifler6478 on 14 Jul 2006 - 21:06
- ...yeah. Never had a problem just using my Debit card, or my parent's CC online. Also never bought anything at those stores listed anyhow.
Adoption by online retailers doesn't matter so much as adoption by the people paying for the offered products. The last report on this noted that PayPal has about 100 million users. Google's gonna have a lot of fun catching up.
-Spenser
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#11 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 14 Jul 2006 - 22:30
- i totally understand Ebays positions. its there product (paypal) and they dont want to loose customers to a competitor. but saying stuff like
eBay informed its members that it may exercise account suspensions and loss of premium statuses if sellers are found to be using Google CheckOut.
excuse me, but its my items, and my the buyers money. if we want to use a competitors service, who the hell are you to say i cant. i dont remember ebay saying you couldn't use pay pall when it first came out. statements like the above are going to hurt you far more in the end. its only a matter of time before google devotes enough resources to make this far better then pay pall. and then what, yeah, thats right, your all gana feel like a bunch of chumps. -
#11.1 Posted by MarkMS on 14 Jul 2006 - 23:09
- Heh, I don't think Google will do much. It's just to scare PayPal somewhat. Just like Firefox did with IE. It got Microsoft to jump up and put some manpower behind it's browser, which I might add is really looking good!
Google will grow, but not to everyones extremely high expectations. Maybe all the tech people will adopt it, but regular consumers are going to go with PayPal because it's associated with eBay - which is a common household name when wanting to sell/buy items on the net.
BTW: I'm trying to figure out something that you said Nose Nuggets. How can you "totally understand" and at the same time criticize eBay on the same issue?
"if we want to use a competitors service, who the hell are you to say i cant."
- Obviously eBay said so. It's their company and they can, unfortunately do whatever they want, You don't like it, move to uBid or buy.com. Ask Google to build you an auction system. What's to stop them from building GoogleBay. They haven't had an original idea in a while now. Look at Checkout(PayPal) and that new Picasa web album (Flickr).
"i dont remember ebay saying you couldn't use pay pall when it first came out. statements like the above are going to hurt you far more in the end."
- TOS/Privacy Policies change with or without you knowing. Also we truely don't know how secure Google Checkout is. It may be very secure, but only time will tell.
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#11.2 Posted by Colin-uk on 15 Jul 2006 - 17:18
- Quote - MarkMS said @ #11.1Heh, I don't think Google will do much. It's just to scare PayPal somewhat. Just like - Obviously eBay said so. It's their company and they can, unfortunately do whatever they want, You don't like it, move to uBid or buy.com. Ask Google to build you an auction system. What's to stop them from building GoogleBay. They haven't had an original idea in a while now. Look at Checkout(PayPal) and that new Picasa web album (Flickr).
microsoft arnt allowed to do what they want, theres been lawsuit after lawsuit about "anti-trust" issues and forcing MS to sell windows without thier media player. (so as to let the competition have a fair chance)
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#11.3 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 15 Jul 2006 - 21:49
- I'm not allowed to criticize things i understand? I do understand where there coming from, from a business perspective, that does not necessarily mean i agree with it.
Using googles pay service in no way reflects badly on ebay, nor does it put ebay at risk for anything. There simply making this rule so they loose less money to alternate pay methods. If they could, I'm sure ebay would make PayPall the only accepted method of payment if it didn't drastically reduce there customer base. By making this rule off the bat they can make an excuse like, we don't know how secure it is. Even though google has been selling ads with similar software for ages.
How does using googles service any different then a money order, or some other form of payment that ebay and paypall have no say in?
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#12 Posted by bid1 on 14 Jul 2006 - 23:00
- I think what we need is some real competition to eBay. Does anyone know of any?
I am getting sick of their practices.
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#13 Posted by Neomac v6 on 14 Jul 2006 - 23:22
- This is what Microsoft originally envisioned with its Passport service, but never quite managed to pull off (like a lot of things).
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#14 Posted by Starcom826 on 15 Jul 2006 - 01:56
- Solution? gBay!!
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#15 Posted by chconline on 15 Jul 2006 - 04:31
- Google... I hate how they handle their clients and customers in many ways. No thanks, I'll stick with Paypal... unless there's a better option thats from neither ebay nor google.
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#15.1 Posted by Cole on 15 Jul 2006 - 18:49
- LOL,
I guess you don't use Paypal that much?
Paypal is nothing but problems and is about as trustworthy as the devil himself. O_o
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#16 Posted by PeteWhite on 15 Jul 2006 - 09:59
- Quote -At this time, only merchants with a U.S. address and bank account can process transactions through Google Checkout. We look forward to offering more options in the future.
Hmmph
Pete
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#17 Posted by otaku's blind rage on 15 Jul 2006 - 10:20
- Google's flash tour is pretty cool
https://checkout.google.com/buyer/tour.html
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#18 Posted by noleafclover on 15 Jul 2006 - 14:11
- Google need us to start getting "comfortable" with Google Checkout so that they can start pushing more products on us where it "only" costs a buck or two to do a special search or watch a video or whatever. Hello new revenue stream.
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#19 Posted by Colin-uk on 15 Jul 2006 - 17:14
- I wonder if this will be in beta
lol @ paypal / ebay saying they'll suspend accounts for using it, they're just scared of the competition, and its pretty funny
eBay announced that it will not support Google CheckOut. Earlier this month eBay added Google CheckOut to its list of non-accepted payment options because they felt CheckOut was too new and not trustworthy for handling online transactions. eBay informed its members that it may exercise account suspensions and loss of premium statuses if sellers are found to be using Google CheckOut.
Numerous reports claimed that users were outraged by eBay's decision and thatthey were generally unhappy with PayPal's services over the lastseveral years. Google stated that its service is highly secure and its experience with handling transactions for its AdSense and AdWordsservices indicated that CheckOut is a trustworthy service.
Despite the lack of support by eBay, Google CheckOut is gaining popularity. Support from companies like StarBucks, Fossil, PBS, uBid.com and othersindicate that Google CheckOut is on its way to becoming one of the few trusted forms of online payment.