27054 1 3 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>eBay</strong>, which owns rival payment processor <strong>PayPal</strong>, has this week tweaked its Safe Payments policy to blacklist Google Checkout as a payment option. It also changed the name of the policy, which is now called <strong>'Accepted Payments'</strong>, presumably to avoid filing Google's new service under the term 'unsafe'.</p> <p> <a href="http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i06/s02">AuctionBytes points to a small snippet from eBay's policy</a>, which states that payment processors must have a <em>"substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services".</em> Google Checkout is still so new that it hasn't yet made it to the UK, where eBay's Accepted Payments policy remains so far unchanged.</p> <p> <a href="/blog/043-google-launches-google-checkout-not-gbuy">Google Checkout was touted as a possible <em>"PayPal killer"</em></a> before it launched yet CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to distance Google Checkout from PayPal. It comes as no surprise to see Checkout banned, joining a list of about 40 other payment services, including big names like Neteller, although whether eBay's users will like this as much as executives is doubtful. </p> <p>AuctionBytes quotes a Google spokesperson as saying: <em>"Google Checkout is not a beta product. Google has a long history in billing and payments for AdWords and for premium services, such as Google Video."</em></p> <p>Too bad for Google. I wonder whether this is linked to eBay's newly-snug relationship with Yahoo? Maybe we'll see a rapid Google Base-led counterattack from Big G. </p> <p> <em>Has anybody bought the Gbay.com domain yet?</em> </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>eBay</Emphasis>, which owns rival payment processor <Emphasis>PayPal</Emphasis>, has this week tweaked its Safe Payments policy to blacklist Google Checkout as a payment option. It also changed the name of the policy, which is now called <Emphasis>'Accepted Payments'</Emphasis>, presumably to avoid filing Google's new service under the term 'unsafe'.</Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Link URL="http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i06/s02" Window="New">AuctionBytes points to a small snippet from eBay's policy</Link>, which states that payment processors must have a <Quote>"substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services".</Quote> Google Checkout is still so new that it hasn't yet made it to the UK, where eBay's Accepted Payments policy remains so far unchanged.</Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Link URL="/blog/043-google-launches-google-checkout-not-gbuy" Window="New">Google Checkout was touted as a possible <Quote>"PayPal killer"</Quote></Link> before it launched yet CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to distance Google Checkout from PayPal. It comes as no surprise to see Checkout banned, joining a list of about 40 other payment services, including big names like Neteller, although whether eBay's users will like this as much as executives is doubtful. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>AuctionBytes quotes a Google spokesperson as saying: <Quote>"Google Checkout is not a beta product. Google has a long history in billing and payments for AdWords and for premium services, such as Google Video."</Quote></Paragraph> <Paragraph>Too bad for Google. I wonder whether this is linked to eBay's newly-snug relationship with Yahoo? Maybe we'll see a rapid Google Base-led counterattack from Big G. </Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Quote>Has anybody bought the Gbay.com domain yet?</Quote> </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2006-07-06T18:14:00+01:00 1 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>Bang bang, eBay has - rather unsurprisingly - shot down Google Checkout, preventing people from using it to pay for auction items, according to a post on AuctionBytes.</strong> </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>Bang bang, eBay has - rather unsurprisingly - shot down Google Checkout, preventing people from using it to pay for auction items, according to a post on AuctionBytes.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 59 361339 eBay says no way to Google Checkout false 2006-07-06T18:14:00+01:00 ebay-says-no-way-to-google-checkout 2009-04-30T03:58:50+01:00 2009-04-30T03:58:50+01:00 383