I find this rather interesting and thought I give you some insights. Google Checkout is a new google service similar to Ebays Paypal that you can use to send other people money over the net without a bank transaction between the two parties. Checkout went live a few days ago and Ebay was quick and reacted agressivly by not allowing their buyers and sellers to use Google Checkout as a method to close the transaction.
Ebay changed its Safe Policy this week adding Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay. Take a look at their updated policy to see for yourself that Google Checkout is among the payment services that are not accepted by Ebay.
My first thought was that Ebay was trying to prevent that a serious competitor would compete with Ebays own service Paypal. This could be but I found something that might give them at least a justification to ban Google Checkout for now.
Ebay uses several factors to determine wether a payment service will be permitted. One of those factors is “whether the payment service has a substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services (new services without such a track record generally cannot be promoted on eBay)”
Google has of course such a track record with Adwords and Google Video but of course not with Google Payment. This could mean that they will evaluate google checkout again at a later date and probably add it to their list of accepted payments services then.
I think that Ebay should leave it to its users how they finish the transaction. It´s none of Ebays business in my opinion to interfere.
What do you think ?
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I agree. At face value this would seem like a monopolistic business practice.
No it’s the same as if you went into somewhere like.. Taco Bell for instance.
They serve Pepsi in there and that’s what you have to drink. If you went into the place and brought your own bottle of Coke then obviously they wouldn’t like it. Taco Bell have an agreement/tie up with Pepsico, ebay sleeps with Paypal.
Whilst you are on their premisis you have to use/consume their products.
(By the way does anybody want to buy this secret recipe I have..?)
I don´t think your example is sound because Ebay has nothing to do with the transactions at all, it simply offers one possibility (besides money order, credit card, cash and more).
This would only work if paypal would be the only way to transfer money. It is not.
if google wanted, they could BAN all links to ebay from their search engine.
imagine the money they would lose. I think they should be happy, and possibly would attract more people and businesses.
we all know how horrible paypal is at gouging high fees.
I think because eBay is so scare of Google. Google is the big player.
Bah , Screw Ebay , eventually Google will put into place a far BIGGER & better auction site that will indeed be a MAJOR competator to the Ebay system, they are just building up their back-end first.
Iam willing to bet that as soon as Ebay turned their back on GOOGLE that the Google team began work on their own Online Auction called Googleauction or something to the same effect , imagine that!.. the worlds biggest Search engine starts the worlds biggest auction site and with each search ppl would have direct links to an auction…
~ This Prophacy will eventuate ~
Wkd../