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Good one,Modee. There will be a rush for a dictionary now to see what behemoth means. LOL.

Google checkout requesting info?
 

Just received this email from Google checkout....what does this mean?

Hello,

After a recent review of your account, we found that you're using
Google Checkout to process orders via Google Checkout invoices.
To facilitate a further review of your account and avoid account
suspension, please provide one of the following pieces of information:

- Business catalog or brochure with company name
- Inventory receipts or supplier contact information
- Copy of professional license

You can provide this information by attaching it in a reply to this
email. Alternatively, you can also fax it to us at 650 469 0611.

We appreciate your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Google Checkout Team

I am reading the thread. But I sell on eBay and invoice through Google checkout. I don't have a business license or a catalog.

Well I thought it was personal but when I set it up last year (as I have had it for almost a year) I did put in a business name as it had a field for it so I made one up that associated with the email address. I have no currently inventory as I sold everything before my account was suspended. I only keep an inventory of a few items at a time. Sell them, then go buy more. But I do have old receipts. I purchase items from the factory outlet stores and then re-sell them on eBay. Coach, Dooney&Bourke, etc. Anything I think I can make some money on.

the fact that google seems to be actively reading your emails and checking and then responding according to what they find puts them 500 billion miles ahead of paypal imo.

And u know whats really bad is on google checkout under Public Business website URL it says (opitional) beside it so there for if its opitional then why the hell they forceing you to put a URL in? any who i just put ebay dot com as my bussiness but the bastrds still deleted my account and i done over $300 in sales and was awaiting the payout

What every u do never ship anything off till the moneys in the bank and out of google cause they are notorious for just deleteing your account and refunding your buyers and wont tell u a dam thing untill your buyers are bltching about getting refunded!

and they dont have phone support or didnt last i checked

Thats EXACTLY what I thought when reading this. It's so nice to google actually responding to the issue in hand, rather than replying with a totally irellevant automated email. They almost seem somewhat conversational.

No I never made up any EIN number. I don't recall them asking for one. And I know better than to make one up. I did have to enter my SS# as with most do to get over that $500 withdrawal hurdle.

does anyone have any problem creating an google checkout seller account these recent days?
i tried to create one today and i entered my infos but they let me create only for buyer . samething happened for another one yesterday?
any clues guys?
thanks

The only bad thing is that's their only way to contact you and they take a long time to do it.

But I guess it's okay, most of their systems are automated and I haven't had to contact them much.

Seems google dose watch your ebay status
 

I had a ebay account suspended 2 days ago cause i refused to use paypal and heres the email the AHoles sent

We're sorry to tell you that your eBay account was suspended because recent account activity has raised serious security concerns. We've taken this precaution to protect our members while we make sure that the activity doesn't cause harm -- however unintentionally -- to the eBay Community.


So i was like yeah sure what every and went on with my day and next thing i know i get emails from some buyers asking why they was getting refunded so i log into my google account and low and behold the Aholes deleted my account and refunded my buyers and i know it was cause of them seening on ebay that i was banned cause i just opened the google account and started getting payouts.

Seems google is going down the same path as paypal is and the sad part is i was banned off ebay cause i didnt accept paypal but instead accepted google checkout.

so from now one when i send google invoices i wont include the ebay item # so the Aholes wont know when a account is suspended off ebay cause really its none of googles bussiness cause all they are there for is to proccess payments.

yeah but cartmanager gives google my item # which that is the last thing u want them to have if u get banned alot which i will be cause i cant list with out haveing paypal as a option and i wont use paypal so there for im bound to get banned alot

and besides that i cant get buyers to pay useing cartmanager i guess it dosent look legit or something but i can send inoivces stright from google to them and they pay.

doughboykilla people have said that about googlecheckout before. Maybe eBay has a point in banning google checkout as it's clearly not secure for sellers.

Yeah i dont list in my listings i accept google checkout i just put i accept credit cards through a merchant. And we all know why ebay banned google cause it was a threat to there crumy paypal cause google checkout is a very safe payment method and if i had a choice i would rather pay a seller useing google then i would with Gaypal at least with google if u get screwed u can do a chargeback and not lose your account like with paypal.

And only reason google banned my account cause there seen my ebay account was banned and it was banned because i would'nt use paypal

GoogleCheckout... personal info
 

So I signed up for a GCO account and provided all real personal info. The setup did at one point force me to enter a Business name as well as the biz name that I wanted to appear on the customer's cc. Well, I don't have a registered business, but since the form was forcing me to enter one, I entered a made-up business name.

From this forum I see that people don't necessarily have a big problem giving Google their SS#. Besides, GCO asks at least for that in order to lift the $$ limits. I would provide the SS# to them, but other than that... as far as the business name thing.. what can I expect from this? What do you suggest I do?

u will need to put a bussiness down that sales what u are selling cause if u make up a bussiness website and they will check it then they will email u about it

i would just fine a website online thats selling the same stuff your selling then u will be good to go

I'm surprised that Google actually does verify this stuff. They're on top of things here.

Anything you make up be ready to provide proof or you could lose your account.

Google demands a SS# but they are insecure because they like to spontaneous give unrequested refunds to all your buyers. Get a real merchant account. They need the SS# but they won't shut you down unless you get a lot of chargebacks.

Jonas, that's absolutely true. For some reason merchant services establishments aren't insane like that. I mean they all have their own risk management departments to first approve you, and then monitor approvals for each transaction. They just want the money flow uninterrupted. But you'd think that all the other "alternative payment solutions" companies would be forever interested in keeping sellers selling, collecting processing fees and all that, but no... there's something about their mentality that either we don't get or there's something else going on... If we figure that the "something else" part is about money, the it's doubly weird that they don't want your fees to roll in forever. Merchant services companies fight tooth and nail for accounts, it's a cutthroat business out there. And you have to make either a huge boo-boo or many many small ones to get screwed out of using your merchant account altogether.

So what you guys are saying is that, it'd be best to register a business, roll out a website, get approved for a merchant account and sell like that? It's funny, really, because I work for a merchant services company myself and see this happen every day, but I was hoping to sell off what I have on ebay or elsewhere, and then just be done with it.

If you control how the charges are made, that is you have control over deciding whether or not a transaction should be put through (compared to automatic charging of the card by an online cart or whatever) then both delays and possible red flags can be avoided altogether. When a merchant account is set up, they approve it according to a particular set of parameters such as average monthly volume, average batch, average ticket, min ticket, max ticket, etc. All these have to do with the kind of products you're selling, their respective worth, type of business you have, risk value attached to different business type categories, etc. It's not exactly written in stone, but the idea is that if a transaction (or financial condition) can't be placed within those parameters, the risk department may or may not take notice. It depends on how strict their risk management protocols are. It varies from bank to bank, of course. But generally, there's a way to go outside these parameters without raising red flags.

MOdee--do you know-- Is it new that Google is verifying websites or whatever??
I guess I dont understand?
I used my acct only a couple times, but sales were over $1k.
They never asked me for a website or even an ebay number.. is this new? Am i at risk now?

I'd like to know this too.

Google Checkout does do verifications
 

hey everyone, for some reason when I use a virtual credit card for google checkout, within 3 days it now asks me for verification and halts my payouts! Even if my order is brand new, wtf! is this the same for everybody? what happened to the good old days when google checkout was free...this is so aggravating. I waited until today to see if maybe they already initiated the payout before asking for verification, but no! I don't know what i'm doing wrong, and I don't want to give them my real info because I don't like giving anybody my real info. Guess it's back to paypal, even they don't pull bull**** like this.

HI: Have you tried a different brand of vcc?
Simon works fine, for me..

Yea it is simon gift cards that I am using, so far i've tried 2 and same result. Is it a new policy of theirs or something? And these aren't like $1,000 transactions or anything. Just $100.

Though the simon gift cards are ones that I have used for ebay, you think that could be the reason?

NO, ebay + google arent linked, that Im aware of,, maybe a new google p[olicy, or something else??
--your ip address--same as google ck out that was banned?
---any matching info--same as old acct?

To be honest with you- MOdee is the Google ckout person, I have used it, and I have an acct-- but I guess I got away with no verif, and they deposited over $1400 int omy acct once, and then $1k another time, so I do nto use on a regular basis- btw- my acct was created in aug/sept of 2007

yeah make sure u use a new ip cause once u get banned they keep track of that and theres alot of gift cards u can use besdies one and if your saleing the same stuff they just asume your the same person and banned you or ask for verfaction google is sneaky like that and there starting to become another paypal.

also u may want to do the $500 a month limt that seems to help

Google is known to do AVS verification checks on cards used for their services. If you use a simons gift card chances are it will not pass a the AVS check which will cause Google to request addition verification information from you.

Good info as always.

Merchant Account Suspended by Google for no REASON??
 

After sending an ebay winner any GC invoice for payment 3 days after the initiated payout.. my gc account ...suspended, a refund was given to the buyer w/o any notification to me or my authorization and NO $ deposited in my bank account.

Wen i logged into my gc account to check the status of the payout there was a message saying they couldnt process my card i used to create the acct with which was a prepaid debit card. They requested a copy of my DL and Proof of address. I sent it.

Google emailed me back saying they will not reinstate my account.

should i create another gc account wit my real info and ssn again , new credit card and bank info ?

any 1 have this problem before or know how to fix it im:confused:

I signed up with GCO a while back using my real name and address. Bad Idea.

There is an option when signing up with GCO to display my business name so that it appears on the customers credit card statement, I thought by doing this, my real name/address would not be displayed for them to see.

Earlier today, I clicked on one of the invoice links I sent to one of my customers and went through the process as if I was buying the item myself and I was flabbergasted when I saw my real name and address show up on the checkout page.

I wish there was a way to prevent my real name from showing up on that checkout page.

I’m bummed.

I don't get it, why would anyone want to reference eBay when preparing invoices using their GoogleCheckout?

How does Google know the transactions are eBay related?

I just type in a description of the item and never reference eBay and send the invocie off to my customer.

If Google ever asks me if my sales are eBay related I will just tell them no and make em look at my eCrater store website.

what was theyr'e reason for not re-instating
 

what was theyr'e reason for not re-instating?

did you use ⊗⊗⊗⊗ info with gc?

They said they still couldnt confirm the information i provided. My DL address is differnt from my utility bill's address. So basically i sent them two peices of ID with two differnt address on em oups :eek:

Hi Im from NYC also and no.

I sent my real info to them.

Update on this ? Are they going to pay you the money ? Did you ship product out ?

Just pay $9.99 and get someone else's ssn online.

Just for my own security i never ship items before i receive payment.

Actually, i confirmed another method to open numerous google accounts since then, so i havent pursued the reinstatement of my suspended acct. Maybe Google doesnt like my IP or real name? :(