Google vs. eBay/PayPal

Started by Mike, Feb 25 06 07:23

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Mike

Google has today made a small announcement on their blog which could shake up the landscape of buying things online: they are going to start allowing certain parties to sell items through Google Base, which people can buy [a href="http://googlebase.blogspot.com/2006/02/buying-on-google-base.html"]using credit cards linked to their Google Account[/a].

According to another blog post, Google already [a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/update-on-payments_24.html"]accepts payments in this fashion [/a]for Google Video, Google Earth, Google Store, etc. How long until Google Base is directly competing with eBay? The framework is now in place.

tim

i would switch from ebay in a minute if google gets into this. ebay fees are way expensive and the fraud the is an epidemic.