gugi
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Hello,
I am not sure whether posting this is OK, please delete if it's not.
I've seen quite often people adding paypal fees in their prices and I just stumbled on a post that somebody's paypal account was frozen.
I just wanted to bring to the attention of those who might have not heard that google is also offering transaction processing (credit cards+bank accounts).
It's called google merchant account. They currently have a promotion so there are no fees (yes google throws marketing dollars to cover your CC processing fee). Even after the promotion (supposedly till the end of the year) their fees are only 2%.
Their sellers protection policy also seems better than paypal's, meaning less hoops to jump through, although I haven't heard ppl using it.
The bad part - afaik for now it's only for US and Canada.
Of course ebay doesn't allow use of google checkout with their auctions because it is supposedly 'not secure', but I believe it's because they own paypal. Personally I feel my data is safer w/ google than w/ paypal - after all google's business is to hoard raw data and sell processed.
I am not sure whether posting this is OK, please delete if it's not.
I've seen quite often people adding paypal fees in their prices and I just stumbled on a post that somebody's paypal account was frozen.
I just wanted to bring to the attention of those who might have not heard that google is also offering transaction processing (credit cards+bank accounts).
It's called google merchant account. They currently have a promotion so there are no fees (yes google throws marketing dollars to cover your CC processing fee). Even after the promotion (supposedly till the end of the year) their fees are only 2%.
Their sellers protection policy also seems better than paypal's, meaning less hoops to jump through, although I haven't heard ppl using it.
The bad part - afaik for now it's only for US and Canada.
Of course ebay doesn't allow use of google checkout with their auctions because it is supposedly 'not secure', but I believe it's because they own paypal. Personally I feel my data is safer w/ google than w/ paypal - after all google's business is to hoard raw data and sell processed.