Ebay is outlawing its users from using Google's new payment system.
Is it because there is too much of a conflict with Ebay's own Paypal? Who knows. But apparently it is not an accepted payment method as of yet. There are over held a dozen requirements that Ebay requires of payment methods in order to get Ebay approval, including a track record of providing safe and reliable financial banking.
So needless to say, no Google Checkout on Ebay now, or maybe ever....
Ebay bans Google Checkout
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(Page 1)3. eBay must be pretty worried about it to ban sellers from accepting it. I bet even if Google meet all the requirements in the future, eBay will still not allow it.
Posted at 6:43PM on Jul 13th 2006 by search marketing articles
5. Well, Paypal has become very popular over the years and its rivals like stormpay are far from it. As google checkout is still in its infancy, not much importance should be given to the news that Google checkout has been banned by Ebay. Once the product proves its worth, it will be accepted by major auction sites.
Posted at 3:35PM on Jul 20th 2006 by Google SEO
6. 'accepted by major auction sites'. Come on mate, there is only one major auction site. The rest are all so rans, basically just about running because of the sellers. Other sites might have goods selling on it but hardley anybody purchases from them. I've got accounts with eBay, CQout, ebid and QXL. All of which are better to use and cheaper to sell on than eBay. The problem is that everybody have heard of some of these sites but hardley anybody uses them because of eBay.
Posted at 5:24AM on Jul 22nd 2006 by Da man
7. Ebay has learned from Yahoo's long-ago mistake and has decided not to provide free exposure for Google Checkout, a new competitor.
Yahoo still regrets their decision several years ago to augment their Yahoo search results with 'fill listings' from Google. This free exposure helped Google form a direct bond with millions of Yahoo loyal keyword searchers and also provided Google points of entry to the entire backside of Yahoo.
Soon the once exclusive GoTo/Overture/Yahoo PPC Keyword Bidding System had a new eager competitor and Google AdWords was launched.
Yahoo still feels the pain of this once seemingly minor decision, to allow some old friends from a small search start-up named Google, to help them 'freshen-up' Yahoo search results.
Ebay has tighter security (akin to banks) and a senior management team that is unwilling to open up their leading system to Google.
Google Checkout will have to fight for market share in its early days, without the free assistance of the market leader, Ebay.
Posted at 12:52AM on Aug 1st 2006 by Jack Roberts
8. I'll be the first to say that Google has been less than pure -- but I think eBay's move is just tacky. They bought PayPal to improve the consume experience. It wasn't so that they could have a monopoly, right? Wish the FTC should look into the wisdom of letting them maintain their PayPal holding while freezing out new innovative competitors like Google Checkout.
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Posted at 11:49PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Mr. Shiney
9. I would not expect anything less from eBay. They want to get as much money as they can.
Posted at 11:05PM on Aug 4th 2006 by Ron Wilson
10. @ Ron Wilson,
every company want to do as much money as they can. If you could be a billionaer, would you do this? Of course you will.
Posted at 6:00PM on Aug 6th 2006 by overclocking
11. Well, I see this move by Ebay as rash one that might carry more negative implications than positive ones. Ebay needs to retain its customers one way or another and by banning Google Checkout they are opening the market up for people who do accept Google Checkout as a payment method
Posted at 1:22PM on Aug 8th 2006 by Word Cloud Sites
13. Wow, surprise surprise. Some one is gonna come by and challange ebay eventually.
Posted at 10:03AM on Aug 23rd 2006 by theMarketingCard
14. Ebay sucks. They do nothing to help the buyer or seller when something goes wrong with a transaction, but they're more than happy to make up stupid rules for not allowing their members to use google checkout.
Trust me, one of two things will happen. Either google is going to sue ebay which will force them to allow google checkout to be used OR google will wind up starting their own auction site to compete with ebay. Either way google will win in the end, and ebay will get what it deserves.
15. If this surprised anyone that ebay "banned" google's checkout then ya might want to checkout (no pun intended) a few things. First, Ebay has "banned" & will continue to do so, any payment processor that would take one penny from Paypal. What's frustrating is that if they utilized the same standards across the board & hold paypal accountable, then they would actually serve the customer by increasing the payment methods, improving the quality of service of paypal, lower the fee for sellers to use a payment processor like paypal, etc.... But like the the person above said:
10. @ Ron Wilson,
every company want to do as much money as they can. If you could be a billionaer, would you do this? Of course you will.
Posted at 6:00PM on Aug 6th 2006 by overclocking 0 stars
THIS STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE... Actually companies that are successful in the long-term DO NOT sacrafice all their ethics/morals to make a 1% (or whatever) increase in profits. In the end this increase in profits will negatively impact the bottom line due to several reasons...
Google is not perfect, but they will not sell their soul to the devil for an extra buck.... EBAY DID THAT a long time ago........
Posted at 12:26AM on Sep 17th 2006 by EyesWideOpen
16. Paypal is sted by step going down.
I can bet my 2cents for that. Their "account frozen" statements, the allowed countries, made them an impossible solution for many of us.
There are already Webmoney, Moneybookers, and others to be the Paypal others never had.
Google checkout is a threat to their business. It wouldn't suprise me Paypal becoming worldwide in the soonest possible time ;)
17. Paypal has absolute no protection to sellers for intangible goods, so if any of your buyers filed a dispute the funds would be removed from your account. It's real bad! I hope Google checkout goes from only 'merchant to consumer' to handling all payments even between two individuals.
18. Yes, Paypal favours the buyers. I have often lost money in refunds even when the buyers had downloaded the digital products.
Posted at 7:57PM on Oct 1st 2006 by Sizzling Cams
1. Obviously, eBay is scaring of its PayPal reversely outlawed by Google Checkout.
Posted at 12:15PM on Jul 7th 2006 by w.y.