In a move that could be viewed as an early holiday gift for online merchants and a heaping lump of coal for eBay, Google announced that it will process payments for free through Google Checkout, its rival service to PayPal, until the end of the year.
Google’s free online-payment-processing ploy is presumably an attempt to take a bite out of PayPal’s market share by coercing merchants to give the initially unpopular Checkout service another chance.
Soon after its launch last June,merchants and shoppers complained it was often taking too long to complete sales transactions, and that sometimes orders were cancelled unjustifiably and without warning.
Olga on November 9th, 2006 at 11:28 am
great news :)
Robin on November 11th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Good news for micropayment using people.
Alexandrina on November 11th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Good news ! Thanks