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Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by adsenseclient »

jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

My question is: when you send emails like "it has come to our attention... fraudulent activity..." [1] [2] and confiscate $30,000+ earnings by shutting down long-standing AdSense accounts, will you do the same to the entire Gmail accounts, or just to the money transferring functionality?

One would have to be a fool to use this, knowing Google's arrogant heavy-handed history of dealing with AdSense publishers (and an absolute lack of any meaningful customer care): this is why Google Wallet has never taken off as an alternative to PayPal in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585043

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by TomatoTomato »

lucb1e wrote: post #7
Khao wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as it's US-only (as with almost every cool thing Google does) it's not a threat at all.

... it's US-only, again? It won't be long before I just proxy all of my traffic through Amazon s3 or something.

Tell us more how you can proxy through s3

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by lingben »

jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

Any idea when this will be available for other countries? Canada? Europe?

thanks!

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by toomuchtodo »

adsenseclient wrote: post #61
jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

My question is: when you send emails like "it has come to our attention... fraudulent activity..." [1] [2] and confiscate $30,000+ earnings by shutting down long-standing AdSense accounts, will you do the same to the entire Gmail accounts, or just to the money transferring functionality? One would have to be a fool to use this, knowing Google's arrogant heavy-handed history of dealing with AdSense publishers (and an…

Because Paypal is known as a bastion of neutral dispute resolution rolls eyes

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by MacsHeadroom »

jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

When will we be able to send Bitcoin using this feature?

When will we be able to store Bitcoin in Google Wallet?

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by adsenseclient »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #64
adsenseclient wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My question is: when you send emails like "it has come to our attention... fraudulent activity..." [1] [2] and confiscate $30,000+ earnings by shutting down long-standing AdSense accounts, will you do the same to the entire Gmail accounts, or just to the money transferring functionality? One would have to be a fool to use this, knowing Google's arrogant heavy-handed history of dealing with AdSense publishers (and an…

Because Paypal is known as a bastion of neutral dispute resolution rolls eyes

Paypal is actually much better. When you reach about 10k/mo, they give you a special representative from the account management team, with a special phone number, and those guys are quite smart and easily available. First hand knowledge.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by jrockway »

michaelt wrote: post #56
jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

Let's say I use this to pay for something I've purchased online, and I later realize the seller is a scammer and want to issue a chargeback. Will that be possible? What are your plans for this situation? If something goes wrong with my account, can my account be locked and my balance frozen? Will it be possible to contact a real human who knows what they're doing to get that fixed?

Yes, you can talk to a real human. Please call us any time you think you're having a problem, the number is 1-855-492-5538.

For details about what we can and can't help with, take a look at this article:

http://support.google.com/wallet/bin/static.py?hl=en&pag...

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by TallGuyShort »

VikingCoder wrote: post #66
vinhboy wrote: post #20

Amazon Payments allows you to send up to $1000 from your credit card for free. Step it up Google.

EDIT: It's not Amazon Payments, it's Amazon WebPay.

Looking for some citations right now, but I think personal usage of Amazon Payments to send money to individuals is much cheaper. I'm familiar with Amazon Checkout which is what you describe above, but longer ago, I did use Amazon Payments to do a personal transfer and it was free. Citation or retraction coming soon...

edit: Found it - GP may be referring to this - I have not yet looked at Google's new offering enough to see if this is truly comparable for personal payments, however:

Is there a fee for using Amazon WebPay?

No, there is no charge to send money using Amazon WebPay.

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/personal/webpay/faq#wp...

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