Interesting intreview by Digital Transactions, talking about how Google Checkout is preparing to allow Paypal as a payment method even though eBay recently banned Google Checkout from it's auctions.Ebay Inc.’s decision to bar Google Inc.’s new payment product from its massive online auction site doesn’t seem to faze the online search company. Indeed, the executive in charge of Google Checkout, which debuted less than two weeks ago (Digital Transactions News, June 29), tells Digital Transactions News Google has PayPal under consideration as a payment method for the new service, which currently works only with credit and signature debit cards. PayPal Inc. is a unit of eBay. “We have a really good relationship with eBay,” says Benjamin Ling, product lead for Google Checkout.
At the same time, though, Ling says eBay is making a mistake in not allowing buyers and sellers to use Checkout. “We believe [eBay] should allow Google Checkout,” he says. “They should promote complementary products. It will be faster for buyers to buy and sellers to complete sales.”
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