Ebay, owners of Paypal, will not accept Google Checkout as a viable means of payment on their site.
From what I understand, Google Checkout would only be available to a relatively small number of individuals anyway, not the average ebayer, but still you can hear the cats snarling “MEOW!”
From SearchEngineGuide
In what could be taken as a slap in the face, eBay has announced that its sellers will not be allowed to offer the Google Checkout payment option to bidders on the popular auction site. eBay currently allows sellers to utilize almost 40 different payment methods, but CNET News has reported that the auction giant has struck down Google Checkout as being “new and untested.”
“Google Checkout is, what, a week old? At this point we’re saying it does not meet the factors needed to allow it as an accepted payment,” eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said.
eBay can offer up all the explanations that they want, but industry analysts point out the obvious issue of eBay being the parent company of PayPal and of Google Checkout’s potential to do battle with the popular payment service down the road. Add in the fact that Google plans to offer AdWords credits to Google Checkout partners and you’re going to have a lot of small and large businesses asking themselves which side of this battle they want to be on.
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