eBay Pulls Google Ads Over Marketing Stunt

odoketa writes "According to the BBC, it seems Google scheduled a party to promote their payment system (Google Checkout) on the same day as a big eBay meeting, and this made eBay mad enough to pull their ads with Google. According to the story, eBay says it's merely an 'ongoing experiment' on their marketing. 'Google hoped to alert PayPal users who would have been in Boston attending the eBay Live annual seller event to its own service, according to market experts. It could also have been seen as part of an effort to get eBay to accept Google Checkout, currently banned on the online auctioneer's site. But in a contrite manner, Google cancelled its rival function a day before it was due to happen.'"

Comments

Paypal useless

[hesaigo999ca]

I am soooooo glad that eBay will now have competition from on of the top dogs for their
paypal excuse for a payment system. I hope google can actually tie this into your gmail account with higher security, although if eBay will not use this service, I dont know where else except the p0rn
sites where this might be usefull?

Re:UK promo was good

[daeg]

We use Google Checkout. Under their promotions, retailers have it good for the start, too. The ending rates are great, too, much better than PayPal. The Terms of Service are much more agreeable to both the buyer and seller, particularly for physical goods. I'm not sure how they compare to digital goods, but PayPal isn't very good on that front, either.

Re:Now we will see who has more behind them

[Anonymous Coward]

I've closed my paypal account because they've become a bank and moved to a EU rather than UK system..

1. Although it's high time PayPal were regulated as a bank, their move will not make them one any more than they are currently.
2. The UK is in the EU and has been for a very long time, making the second half of your sentence non-sensical.