Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal? 219
An anonymous reader writes to mention a ZDNet post about another possible product in the grand Google vision. The product, Google Checkout, may be an attempt to go after PayPal. From the article: "Since we know Google is behind its registration, what is Google Checkout going to be? I think it will be a shopping cart system to help websites accept payment for their items online. The money site owners make will be deposited into a holding account at Google -- just like AdSense works. Isn't this starting to sound a lot like PayPal? Who knows, they could even offer a Google branded Mastercard "debit card" like PayPal's ATM/Debit Card -- after all, the domain googlemastercard.com is registered to Google too."
great! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This could only be a good thing (Score:4, Informative)
Think about what they'd have done if you *had* shipped that laptop. Would they have taken responsibility for their mistake? I doubt it. It's easy not to suck if you only look at the best case scenarios.
Re:A big list of upcoming services (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Keeping the dogs out of the internet ... (Score:2, Informative)
i.e. when you want to checkout, you use a google checkout page.
I am reminded of the yahoo store checkout pages.
Of course some vendors would want their own checkout, and this introduces a new form of fraud
as you stated. Where only Google loses in this case. (Compared to click fraud where both
Google (in reputation and refunds) and the customer loses.)
Re:Lack of integration with ebay will kill it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:You midunderstand (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This could only be a good thing (Score:3, Informative)
Replace both... (Score:3, Informative)
Ebay's become a cesspool anyhow, with severely overrated shipping costs ($50 shipping with a $1 item still shows the item as $1 in the listings), people selling "how buy get a cheap X" crap, and much more. The days of low-bid bargains seem to have gone past, and the present reality is that you have to do a lot of searching just to find the real item.