PayPal is introducing a new partner program that gives incentives to ecommerce and financial service providers for integrating and offering PayPal's Express Checkout to their merchant customers.
Under the new program, partners will receive integration technical support, integration best practice information and access to co-branded marketing materials. In addition, partners that integrate Express Checkout will be eligible for an integration bonus upon receiving certification from PayPal.

All partners will be listed in PayPal's Solutions Directory at https://www.paypal.com/solutions.


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looks like paypal is beginning to take the steps to stop google checkout.......soon they may take further steps and ban the use of google checkout on sites that take paypal.... this will stop google checkout dead in its tracks.... not many sellers would take 20 yrs or more of losing money to help build google checkout... so this would be how google checkout would die..

google should have not GONE this way at ALL.... just wasting their time... just faulty thinking...

google should have done what shop.com has done.. what amazon has done.... have a shopping site and in house payment and ordering system..

Paypal can't tell people what form of payment method to accept or not. the whole concept of free enterprise is choice.

Ebay has tried that and gotten a couple of anti-trust suits filed against it.

M$ tried it and had TONS of anti-trust suits filed.

MaBell tried it.. and now there are dozens of phone companies to chose from.

That would be like Mastercard telling merchants they can't take Visa, Or any other credit card. And that could interfere with a business growth...

Quote: › MaBell tried it.. and now there are dozens of phone companies to chose from.

yeah, we're so much better off now, right?


besides...fast eddie whitaker is quietly putting ma bell back together again...& he's almost done it!

Sometimes I long for ma Bell Yet, monopolies are no good! Breaking them up doesn't always end up like AT&T did. Ebay needs to be taken down to where people can actually deal with it - right now, they are hurting themselves with this rigid (and very stupid) attitude just as much as they are hurting buyers and sellers.

Quote: › Sometimes I long for ma Bell Sad Yet, monopolies are no good!

well, the difference is, ma bell was a regulated monopoly...& we paid the overseers with our taxes. who's regulating ebay? nobody. it's like the early days of the railroad...they did whatever they wanted to.

We desperately need strong serious competition for ebay. The government can't pull us out of this one. They were the first and the first always has the upper hand. I see nothing serious on the horizon. These startup auctions try but they have no advertising budget - nothing to help draw in traffic. When ebay first started the radio was full of ads for them. They knew they had to advertise. That made them known and wildly popular. If I said Yessy, Etsy, Hometown Gallery, Art by Us to you - would you even know them? They are onlines sites for art - and some are auction style. I list on them but its rare that anything sells. Some collect fees yet they do not advertise! I'm afraid that's the problem with most of the startup auctions and sites for sales.

Just my 2 cents...There are so many auction sites and free classified sites and free store set up sites that it can make your head swim! But, as you say, most do not advertise and few people even know they exist. The best hope is for well-written descriptions that lead a potential buyer to the site you are listing on.

I think the most serious contenders right now are Ecrater and Blujay. Both are growing by leaps and bounds, but both have their faults. Ebid has a lot of listings, but if I want to sell high end items, I hesitate to list them on a site with "bid" in the name. Auction Quests has a good format and site, but it is just getting off the ground. The only way I know about AQ is because I frequent PSU.

the big problem is that the name itself has become part of the language--when ya say "ebay", everybody knows ya mean online auctions. who knows what bidville is?