Google Checkout goes live :D

[Michael]

https://checkout.google.com/ :D its live..

[Michael]

Looks like it's for US only, I was looking forward to signing up.

[Tyler]

Google scares the pants off me... what's next? Google-Cola?

[kaizan]

Google scares the pants off me... what's next? Google-Cola?

It will be some wierd Scandanavian fish by-product first....

[Omer]

Too late:

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

[SohaibT]

Checkout isnt their biggest new service in the online payment arena, everyone is still waiting for their paypal killer!

[L146705]

Checkout isnt their biggest new service in the online payment arena, everyone is still waiting for their paypal killer!
I thought they were the same thing?

[Shaun]

I doubt they will be able to knock paypal off. not for a while at least, ebay will be against it

[L146705]

paypal and ebay both suck, they take too much in fees. For example I got a payment via paypal for $1.99 usd, paypal took $0.37.

[moojj]

Google scares the pants off me... what's next? Google-Cola?

Yes, and they called it Google Gulp (http://www.google.com/googlegulp/)

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/images/purple_200.jpg

In all seriousness, I think Google Checkout is in its early stages. Like most projects released by Google, they tend to gain features and functionality as time goes on. I think the 'PayPal Killer' will be integrated into Google Checkout in the future. Personally, I can't wait. I have had bad experiences with PayPal and I am eager to go with a new service.

[Tyler]

Just a note, they don't accept non-US residents, at least not yet:

Hello Tyler,

Thank you for your email.

At this time, only merchants with a United States address and bank account
can integrate and process transactions through Google Checkout. We look
forward to making the service more widely available in the near future.

Please feel free to reply to this email if you have any additional
questions.

Sincerely,

Zack
The Google Checkout Team

[L146705]

Just a note, they don't accept non-US residents

oh dear, thats me out of that one and most of the world.

[boron]

oh dear, thats me out of that one and most of the world.

They are now accepting most of the countries (http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48115), a lot more then PayPal.

[zac439]

Ha, I tried out google checkout just for the free $10 offer. The websites they had listed for redeeming your $10 were horrible. Interestingly, they were very horribly made sites that had poor domain names, and seemed like either spam sites or scam sites.

They had a few good ones, but most were horrible. Which is why I stopped using Checkout that day and returned to paypal.

[Submerge]

Yeah, I'm tempted to sign up for Google Checkout for the $10 sign up bonus. The only downfall is it expires March 31st, which I don't know if I'd buy anything by then.

[boron]

Yeah, I'm tempted to sign up for Google Checkout for the $10 sign up bonus. The only downfall is it expires March 31st, which I don't know if I'd buy anything by then.

If you'll still have them on March 30th...send them to me ;) .

[Submerge]

If you'll still have them on March 30th...send them to me ;) .

Well, the expiration being so close I'm not going to sighn up at all really. Maybe there will be a special some other time down the road.

[AnthonyLipari]

Unless they have something super super unique and impressive, I don't see why people would leave Paypal for Google.