As you know, eBay owns paypal and the recently released google checkout is in direct competition with paypal.

So what did eBay do? eBay has updated it's "Safe Payments Policy" to specifically NOT allow Google Checkout. I suspect sellers (especially multichannel) will be pretty upset about this.

Its a nice move by eBay. We can't blame them because allowing google checkout in ebay is just like owning a restaurant and allowing other people to come in and sell snacks to your customers.

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