Google Checkout Worse than Paypal ? Maybe for some, not others

[Jonas]

Originally Posted by sellersaccount

Nope it says right here on there FAQs

Payouts will be initiated within two business days if:

You've already specified a valid bank account to receive your payouts.
You've successfully charged an order.
Your earned balance at the time of disbursement or transfer is at least US$1.
Google will initiate payouts within two business days after you charge an order; however, your bank may take up to three additional business days to register the payout in your account. Please contact your bank representative if you'd like more information about the timing of fund transfers into your account.

They will not pay u with in 24 hours after a order is charged cause they want to control the money in case u get banned with in the 2 bussiness days they wont have to pay u the payout.

And yes google will ban you for unfair reason like if your selling something and they cant verfiy its legit or fake they will just assume its fake and say u volited there TOS and ban you even if u have not one complaint

I was banned a few months back and when they banned u they wouldnt even tell you they would just banned u and you couldnt even log into your google account and to make thingd wrose you couldnt access the buyers address page to ship the orders and to top it off google would refund every buyer from day one even if you shipped the goods off or not then expect you to pay google back
lucky i closed my bank where the bastrds couldnt still money to cover there loss's.

I think they got into some **** about it cause they no longer use that method when they ban you and u can still access your account to finsh orders even if your suppened unlike before.

Wow! A lot of bad stuff about google!

[Jack]

All you need to do is go to the google merchant forums and help center to see what a joke they were in the beginning. It's a landscape of "why won't you reply" "google froze my account" "worse than paypal" "with google's reputation this should be better" etc. I'm not sure if they've gotten their act together yet, but the damage has definately been done. Free payments or not, the general consensus is that they're not worth the hassle unless you don't care about the money and don't mind when or if you receive.

[Jonas]

Originally Posted by Jack

All you need to do is go to the google merchant forums and help center to see what a joke they were in the beginning. It's a landscape of "why won't you reply" "google froze my account" "worse than paypal" "with google's reputation this should be better" etc. I'm not sure if they've gotten their act together yet, but the damage has definately been done. Free payments or not, the general consensus is that they're not worth the hassle unless you don't care about the money and don't mind when or if you receive.

Links please.

[Jack]

What is a stored value card? Are you talking about a store gift card?

Google Checkout Merchants Forum | Google Groups

Google Base Help Discussion | Google Groups

You won't have to look far. Everytime I visit, there's something bad happening on the first page.

[georgesmith]

Well I have $1500+ per transaction and I havent had a single problem with google checkout as a seller.

[Ballsack]

Originally Posted by EBayEmployee

I swear why dont you all ever read. This was posted on page 1 of this thread...Its your bank thats holds up payment..

This was takinf from what cpugeek said on page 1

''''Wrong ballsack,

They do deposit to your bank within 24 hours of requesting it, but it takes time for your"bank" to credit the deposit to your account. So google does their half but if you got a slow bank then it will take longer.

My merchant account I have now takes 2 days total for me to have the funds hit my bank account because my bank is pretty fast when it comes to deposits..'''''

Google Checkout: Merchant Help Center - How often will Google pay me for my sales?

Google takes within 2 business days to initiate payout. Whether or not they actually take 2 days is another story but the fact remains that if they say they take up to 2 days don't be surprised if they do. I rest my case.

[Modee]

Google checkout has worked for me so far. Last week I did a $9500. transaction with them (as seller), and shipped. So I hope the cash gets to my account! No problems indicated so far.

I rather doubt PP would allow close to ten grand to flow so quickly.

[Jack]

So just to get this straight, the general point being made is that any card that has a routing number on it other than an actual bank account, that is being used for paypal, google, or whatever account, will eventually run into problems. Is that the gist of what I'm reading?

At first this sounded like an interesting option to consider but the last few posts make it sound like a bad idea.

[georgesmith]

Originally Posted by Modee

Google checkout has worked for me so far. Last week I did a $9500. transaction with them (as seller), and shipped. So I hope the cash gets to my account! No problems indicated so far.

I rather doubt PP would allow close to ten grand to flow so quickly.

You'll be fine! I had almost 15k week before last through google checkout.

[Modee]

Originally Posted by sellersaccount

I wouldnt had shipped the stuff till u had the $9500 cause google can stop the money at any time and suppened your account and if they do this they will refund the buyer your money.

Safe way is to never ship till the money is in your bank account

On the other hand, on high ticket items I understand they sometimes want to see that it has shipped and the tracking # inputed before they release the funds.

A friend of mine was trying some crooked stuff with Googlecheckout and he never shipped. Google did not reverse the transaction until after giving him every chance to supply the proof of shipping.


On PayPal they routinely ask for tracking #s on NEW accounts as part of the requested info to remove a limitation. And with UBID.com, you MUST enter a tracking # within a couple of days of auction's end - they will not mail you your check until you do.

[georgesmith]

Each one of my sales have been $1500+ and Google has yet to ask me for any info.

With paypal, they limit every account that wants to withdraw funds it seems, and then you have to go through with an investigation.

[Jack]

If only you could handle a merchant account the same way as paypal for a linked account.

[Modee]

Originally Posted by georgesmith

With paypal, they limit every account that wants to withdraw funds it seems, and then you have to go through with an investigation.

But once you get through that limitation, it's full bore ahead - noo problems!

[georgesmith]

Originally Posted by Modee

But once you get through that limitation, it's full bore ahead - noo problems!

Its too much of a hassle.

[tvaughan08]

Yeah 24 hours is impossible, because I use to work for a collection agency call OSI...so let me give u the run down...when your dealing with banks its called a "paper draft" what that means is once a merchant such as google, paypal, submits a payment its in the form of a pre-printed check that takes the banks 2-3 days to clear to there account becausr the merchant has to contact to the bank to verify the money is valid or the bank will deposit the money back into your account. But assuming transaction is legit they inturn take the money and deposit that into your account. The only way u can get money instantly is a ACH draft which comes out directly it does not matter if your account is in the negative the money will still be extracted unless u put a debit hold on the account which by the way cost 30-60 bucks and only good for 6 months depending on what bank you use. But Nooo Merchant on on planet earth can give u money within 24 hours. "Paper drafts" don't even hit the bank the sameday much less despositing money in your account sameday.

[Modee]

First of all, you have to understand why PP limits an account - it is primarily to gather information so that they are assured that the owner is legitimate and verifiable at a certain address.

There is only so much information PP can request - and my oldest account, that I created in 2000, has NEVER been limited. Neither has one of my other accounts. The other four were limited, once, but reinstated with full privileges fairly quickly.

Once you have given PP your social, the EIN of your corporation, and stuff like copy driver's license or utility bill, sometimes they ask for your incorporation docs, there is nothing more they can or will ask of you. If you can think of anything else they might want, or asked of your friends, you let me know.

PP asks for tracking #s of shipments, but only on very new accounts.

Assuming the hearsay that EBAY employee is repeating is true, those people probably just coughed up a few things the first time. Then the rest later. At some point there is just nothing more PP wants or could possibly ask for.

[Modee]

Originally Posted by Modee

Google checkout has worked for me so far. Last week I did a $9500. transaction with them (as seller), and shipped. So I hope the cash gets to my account! No problems indicated so far.

I rather doubt PP would allow close to ten grand to flow so quickly.

My customer emailed me that Google phoned her this morning, to verify that the transaction was good. They asked her to verify her billing address, and asked her if she had received the goods yet. Of course she has not yet - how could she I just shipped yesterday - but she wrote me that she told them that she had a tracking number.

[Modee]

This is what she told me. And they do call customers - I know PP has done that.

By the way, is there an echo in the room? Why are you two posting the exact same thing - and mispelling the same words.

[Jack]

Just because they don't have a customer service number easily reachable doesn't mean they don't have a customer service number. There are plenty of businesses like that.

[Modee]

Agreed. And even if they don't take calls in, Google obviously does call out.