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eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.
eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout
Seeded on Thu Jul 6, 2006 1:24 PM EDT
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From what I understand of Google Checkout, I don't think it'd be possible for eBay sellers to collect via Google Checkout unless eBay implemented the API. Google Checkout is not a peer-to-peer money transfer service like PayPal is. Google Checkout requires a seller to have a backend to hook up to Google's easy checkout button API; you wouldn't be able to do that in eBay unless eBay did the work. So, yeah, no surprise eBay's not using Google Checkout, but it's not like eBay sellers could have really used it anyway.
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#1 - Thu Jul 6, 2006 4:41 PM EDTAnd this is why internet companies can be so volatile. eBay vs. Google, it's only going to get uglier before someone gives in and they work together.
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#3 - Thu Jul 6, 2006 9:02 PM EDTThey also banned things like Western Union Bidpay but I recall making transactions that way. The transactions usually went to the seller's off-ebay website shopping cart which was then routed to Bidpay or wherever. Ebay had nothing to do with how the money changed hands.
Is Google's service unable to support that sort of transaction?
#4 - Fri Jul 7, 2006 2:55 AM EDTHmm.. You're right, that would work. I forgot for a moment that eBay doesn't actually handle the money transfer....
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