Google Base is not auction. Also, they are just as bad as ebay about pulling your submission. I have my own copyright protected software on my own physical device trademarked in my company name. I am the exclusive grantor of any and all rights to the product. Me. Nobody else. I list it with them. They tell me days later that I am not an authorized seller of that product. I send them all the documents which state clearly that I am the author, creator, the owner of the copyright, the registrant of the trademark, the sole shareholder of the company, I am the only source. I manufacture them directly, I don't hire some factory to run them for me, I'm the big cheese, numero uno hombre... I provide the documents for which companies I have granted rights under contract to and when those licenses expire. Google misinterprets that all as indicating the licensees won't allow me authorization. Um, what?!?
In addition, the Base listings aren't consistent. They vanish and reappear at random and for unguessable durations. I don't mean the public viewability. I mean from within your own control panel.
Google Checkout - I set up my account there. All valid info. The real me. Approved, no prob. Put all the info in a folder and stashed it away. I have never ever made or attempted a single transaction with it. Got an email a little while back saying they suspended it forever due to what 'appeared' to be attempted fraudulent transactions. Thing is, I hadn't used the merchant id anywhere. Ever. No email notices ever came in prior to that which might indicate that somebody had obtained my info and attempted to receive money. (don't see how that would work anyhow).
Their automated email system cannot be reasoned with nor circumvented.
I know it's minor and a petty concern, but Google Base looks worse (in my opinion) than even Craig's List.
I think Google is best kept to information, and don't let them anywhere near a dime.
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