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New Fees for Google Checkout

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Google announced today changes to their fee structure for Google Checkout. The new fees bring their service in line with Amazon Payments and Paypal as seen in the chart below:

Problems with Google Checkout Payouts

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

I am currently having issues with receiving money that people paid to my business with Google Checkout. I have contacted customer service and here is the reply I got: Thanks for notifying us of this situation, which our engineering team is currently addressing. When this issue is resolved, we'll contact you ...

Contact Phone Number for Google Checkout

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Because of a recent unexplained mess with my Google Checkout account (subject of the next post), I like many others started looking for a phone number for them. One would think that given that this is a service people actually pay money for, there would be good support. However, there ...

Is Google Checkout In Legal Trouble with State Laws?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

An interesting thing that I ran into recently - it seems that while PayPal and Amazon Payments are registered on a state by state basis as "money transmitters", Google Checkout is not. Of course for filing complaints that makes things harder since there is no clear regulatory body responsible. That ...