Comments on: Google Checkout worth checking out

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:18:35 +0000

Both Paypal & Google checkout are competitive. It depends on the specific website needs when you have to choose between the two. Google is also planning to launch online bookstore in the first half of 2010 with about 500,000 titles available. Obviously, buyers will be able to pay for their e-books using Google Checkout.

By: mushu

mushu — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:43:14 +0000

thebilliondollarpatent.com sounds like billiondolllarscam lol it sounds like you have to buy it or is it similiar to paypal and googlecheckout, I didn’t see any fee structure just a lot of BS about how they guy got the idea, I won’t be using them anytime soon

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Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:57:42 +0000

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:48:23 +0000

Erdbeere - without linking to your sites/pages, add some value here and tell us what makes using your service more beneficial?

By: Erdbeere

Erdbeere — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:35:29 +0000

I checked out “Google-checkout”.
The overall process seems to be very easy but exactly that makes this solution very vulnerable. During checkout there was no security question to make sure that I’m indeed the owner of the Google account or the associated Credit Cards in that account. Of course I used my username and password but because there are so many Google sites, using the same username and password, it is very easy to loose your login information on a hijacking page as you might not check the url for Ad-Words or Gmail every time you log on as those services never had the possibility to shop with your Credit Card.
Now because you have one account and login information for all it is quite possible that hackers will try to get your login information from any Google service out there! Even worth is the fact that the hacker can change the password without any problem. The owner of the account might not even get any information about the password change as the e-mail is sent to the according and hijacked Gmail account.
Because of this HUGE security risk I would not recommend using Google checkout!
Please checkout the thebilliondollarpatent.com as s-registration solution that Google should have implemented in their service to make it solid and secure. This solution is requiring a third credential called TAN to make sure that ONLY the owner of that account is able to shop online even in case the account is hijacked.
I hope that everybody is aware of the security issue with Google checkout and will inform Google of a better solution!
Thanks and be safe;-)))!!

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:42:16 +0000

Noticed that the signup went right to the credit card form which might freak out some buyers who might want to be convinced and tour-schmoozed why they should signup. I’ve seen a few complaints about that.

I definitely like the fee structure. 2%/.20 is better than Paypal for smaller transactions. But still what about micropayments? Google has no answer for that yet, not with the current incarnation of Checkout. Microsoft could jump in that niche with the Xbox Marketplace, but they seem to be in some weird, inexplicable holding pattern (why???). Google gains while Microsoft lumbers along and meanwhile Yahoo jumps into just about everything and gets little fanfare for the effort.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:16:46 +0000

I spent years praising Google. Now I’m more critical of the apologists than of Google themselves. Both my posts on this didn’t say anything negative about Checkout actually, because besides my issue, there wasn’t anything negative to say.

On the positive side, signup was so simple I nearly did a double-take

By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:06:28 +0000

Jeremy you’ve been fairly critical of Google whether they were beta or not, yes/no? Forgive me for being a bit skeptical that you wouldn’t be hammering them if this wasn’t beta. Regardless of whether your would or not, your point — and other prospective customers trying to use Checkout and getting errors — is valid.

As I said in comment #4, it’s “disturbing.” I haven’t tried any transactions yet, but will be once I get caught up here (over 600 posts to plow through, yowsa). I guess I’m learning to wait a couple days for the “it’s new” crowd to drop in and leave before trying out and seriously evaluating new Google services. It has becom badly cliched — and too easy, frankly — to bash Google on launch days. I’d rather wait and see if there is some real usefulness in the days that follow and report back findings then.

And not being a Google apologist here (although I probably sound that way), but every third party processor we’ve ever tried/used in our business since 1996 has had problems of some sort, including PayPal.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:42:38 +0000

TDavid, if this was marked beta, I wouldn’t be complaining. But it’s not, hence I feel pretty justified This is, after all, a banking-level transaction and system.