Re:C'est la vie. (Score 1)

Well, most services coming from US-based companies only support US residents. Most US merchants won't ship outside US - google checkout or not - and many won't accept non-US credit cards even for shipping within the US.

Say what? Nearly every US merchant I've come across ships internationally, and I've never come across one who wouldn't accept a non-US credit card.

There are two very obvious reasons for this:
1) It would be illegal to do so, and
2) The merchant has neither input nor an interest in whether a credit card is a non-US card.