Google Checkout is online!

[reteep]

Blogged it here: http://www.andreas-kraus.net/blog/gbuy-is-now-officially-known-as-google-checkout/

See it here: https://checkout.google.com/

Too bad it's only for United States

 

[kyleirwin]

w000000 h00000000000... i'll report back tomorrow... i'm off...

 

[Michael]

Bah.. US only, guess I will have to just wait.

 

[rembrandt]

US only, That sucks... Hey Google, you know that Australian's are 80% Google users so why not us!!!

 

[$5 Submissions]

Time to double up on you GOOG shares?

 

[Stanley]

Google checkout video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4428105074432041548

 

[Charlie]

[SIZE=-1]and we don't share your purchase history or full credit card number with sellers.[/SIZE]

But whats to stop them applying all their nice and clever search algorithms to the data and using it for all sorts of whatever they like

It is a tenupous link to searching in my mind

 

[WallaceCleaver]

I think that it's stupid that the sellers account is tied in with Adwords.

 

[Ben]

I'm dissapointed, I thought this service would be more like paypal...

 

[rob]

I like the 1000 Citi points offer going on. Might do it.

 

[Payton]

So it's really more like MS passport huh?

 

[Stanley]

I like the 1000 Citi points offer going on. Might do it.

oh? tell me more, I haven't seen it.

I'm dissapointed, I thought this service would be more like paypal...

It may still be, but Google tends to put a new twist on an old idea. They rarely do carbon copies of someone else's ideas.

 

[peach]

US only, That sucks... Hey Google, you know that Australian's are 80% Google users so why not us!!!

no way, where did you get that?

 

[blindpete]

Has anyone signed up? I read through there developer area it sounds reasonable. I have a client that I think the "Buy Now" would be perfect for. One question I have is... do the customers need a google account too? Or is it like pay pal and you can serve up the a customized checkout page for the customer?

 

[JDA]

http://www.ensight.org/archives/2006/06/29/google-checkout-quits/

I decided to give Google Checkout a shot. Signed up, got all set (pretty quickly, well done Google). Headed over to Buy.com. Saw this laptop and thought that if it worked it’d be a nice buy.
Added it to my cart. Clicked “Proceed to Checkout”. Clicked to go to Google Checkout. And…

Error
Purchase History > Error
Oops!
An error occurred while processing your request.
Back to My Account
​

Yuh-huh. Nice. And, no, this isn’t in Beta so no excuses this time.

 

[V12Kid]

this should be interesting

 

[blindpete]

Gee JDA's experience is more then a bit discouraging. I'll wait a while to use it (if at all) in production

 

[theNOTO]

$10 off $20 purchase at several retailers.

http://www.google.com/buy/m.html

 

[JDA]

Gee JDA's experience is more then a bit discouraging. I'll wait a while to use it (if at all) in production

Just to clarify, that wasn't my experience, it was Jeremy Wright's, the link is above the quote.

 

[rob]

oh? tell me more, I haven't seen it.


It may still be, but Google tends to put a new twist on an old idea. They rarely do carbon copies of someone else's ideas.

Enter your Citi card number and purchase something. They give you 1000 Thank You points