Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday May 28, 2006 @02:48PM from the cha-ching dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a ZDNet post about another possible product in the grand Google vision. The product, Google Checkout, may be an attempt to go after PayPal. From the article: "Since we know Google is behind its registration, what is Google Checkout going to be? I think it will be a shopping cart system to help websites accept payment for their items online. The money site owners make will be deposited into a holding account at Google -- just like AdSense works. Isn't this starting to sound a lot like PayPal? Who knows, they could even offer a Google branded Mastercard "debit card" like PayPal's ATM/Debit Card -- after all, the domain googlemastercard.com is registered to Google too."

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Re:This could only be a good thing by Rix · 2006-05-28 15:37 · Score: 3, Informative

Paypal treats anyone outside the US like dirt, so it'd be great to have an alternative.

Think about what they'd have done if you *had* shipped that laptop. Would they have taken responsibility for their mistake? I doubt it. It's easy not to suck if you only look at the best case scenarios.