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eBay Bans Google Payments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the credit-no-good-here dept.

whoever57 writes "eBay has added Google Checkout to the list of payment options banned on eBay. A recent update to the Accepted Payments Policy includes Google Checkout (click on 'Show' next to 'Some Examples' to reveal the list). More comments on this action can be found at the eBay Strategies Blog."

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  1. How Ironic by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been banned from eBay and I've had nothing to do with payments ... which is probably why they banned me come to think of it.

  2. Cant Beat Em? by phat_goat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cant beat em, ban em. When will they learn.

  3. Canadian Tire Money? Sure. GoogleCash? Oh no. by bunions · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's not so much that I'm surprised they banned google checkout, it's that I'm shocked they specifically allow Canadian Tire Money.

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  4. My guess about how this happened: by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay, I'm guessing, maybe this is how it happened:

    An eBay executive was sitting around thinking, how can I get $5,000,000 of bad, sink-the-company publicity for almost free?

    YES, that's it!!!! Do something against Google, which is, today, the equivalent of doing something against cute kittens.

  5. Re:Why would Google stop there? by armyofone · · Score: 5, Funny
    perhaps an eBay killer, likely named gBay.

    Hmmm... that would be a terrible name. But still better than bGay, I suppose...

    *** rimshot ***

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  6. Re:Oh! Can I Please Be the First?!? by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    They won't take google's money but they will take Canadian Tire money

    So, google just has to get Crappy^WCanadian Tire to print up more Canadian Tire currency ...

    I can see it now ... Google buys a million bux of Canadian Tire money and uses it as their "float" for transferring money. Oh, and since you can get Canadian Tire bills for as low as $0.05, its great for micropayments since you can't send coins through the mail :-)

  7. Re:Why would Google stop there? by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Funny
    But still better than bGay, I suppose...


    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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  8. Re:Why would Google stop there? by lgw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nay, if they were headed that way, they would've named Checkout gAypal!

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  9. Re:Oh! Can I Please Be the First?!? by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't laugh - some Canadian Tire money is collectible - there re different variants from different "eras". I've got some of the old 3 cent ones kicking around (I keep it rather than spend it - I've got about $70 of the stuff)

    On a side note, one guy I know is a retired trucker - one of his friends was making a run through New York, tolk the hooker that he had only Canadian money, and paid her with Canadian Tire money. $20 blow job was two 10 cent Canadian Tire bills (after all, they just looked for the denomination, not whether it was dollars or cents).

    I guess that's why he said "Ain't America Great!"