Google launches Paypal rival!

Stuart_P

LULUBELLE wrote: »

An interesting post about eBay on the Google Checkout Merchants Forum:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/google-checkout-basics/browse_thread/thread/feb3d420e56efa82/068bea1fc451b9e9?lnk=st&q=google+checkout&rnum=22#068bea1fc451b9e9

yeah that'll work just fine & is essentially what i said in the post further up. i'm not using google yet but will certainly use the google invoice method. less money that goes to ebay the better.

doingwhatican

Soolin, you say that nochex is banned. Thats news to me. All my listings have nochex as the prominate payment method ( in my listing at least )
I have just checked the accepted payment types and it is listed as being allowed.

doingwhatican

Ummm, I think I might also try to google invoice method. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Stuart_P

soolin is wrong - nochex is not banned - i use it

go here http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html and click on 'some examples' at the bottom

Sugar_Coated_Owl

I thought Nochex was banned briefly but then allowed once again.

soolin

When I first posted the link, as did someone else, nochex was clearly banned. However that same link now shows nochex is accepted but interestingly google is still not accepted. So it seems that nochex still varies almost on a weekly basis between being accepted and not being accepted....maybe Google will join Nochex then and switch between accepted/not accepted?

Watch this space..

Soo

Moglex

doingwhatican wrote: »

Ummm, I think I might also try to google invoice method. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

So you're happy that people who only buy with pp or people who have pp only in searches will not see your auctions?

doingwhatican

Yep, thats their loss not mine. The only person I know that searches with PP only is soolin, as she has said so many times. I get quite a few people who dont use paypal, which is fine by me. I think that my feedback gives them reassurance that they will get what they have paid for regardless of how they pay, so if I can reduce my overheads then thats good for me.

pinkgem

i also search paypal only listings

Moglex

doingwhatican wrote: »

Yep, thats their loss not mine.

Nope! It's just as much your loss as theirs

The only person I know that searches with PP only is soolin

I do that as well.

I'm just not prepared to suffer the loss of protection offered by using a credit card.

I think you'd find that there are quite a few people who feel the same. They wouldn't bother having special checkbox for it if it wasn't used.