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="vny!://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="vny!://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.
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.