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Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by DanBC »

adsenseclient wrote: post #181
DanBC wrote: post #134

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Adsense users often complain about this. They don't seem to realise that they're not the customer. They're not even the product being sold. They are trying to sell product to Google - "Buy this space on my web page / youtube video". Google has strict rules, and sometimes makes mistakes, and doesn't have any way to sort out those mistakes. It sucks for those people. And since those people are (by definition) the kind…

I wonder what you would say when you personally experience a $15,000/mo sudden AdSense account shutdown in a bootstrapped startup, with confiscation of $30,0000 earnings already on the account. The email will be just a template to accuse you of "fraudulent activity", and there will be no human at all that you can call. Speaking with the first hand knowledge of the matter.

I'd be spitting feathers!

But customers don't have to buy from you, and they don't have to give you a reason when they stop buying from you.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by ditojim »

tapp wrote: post #112
ShawnBird wrote: post #93

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Google Apps has great support.

I have to disagree - Google Apps has the absolute worst support of any business application/suite I've ever used. If Google provides meaningful support for Wallet going forward, I hope they consider extending it to Apps - it's desperately needed.

can you characterize what makes their support "the absolute worst support of any business application/suite I've ever used" with examples?

that is not the general consensus of google apps customers, so i am curious what experiences have caused you to have this opinion.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by numbers »

dmayle wrote: post #205
numbers wrote: post #137

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I had a prepard card setup with Google Wallet when it first came out. Then that card was discontinued by Google. I had $100 loaded onto that card. When I asked Google for a refund (September of 2012), first the form to submit a refund request wasn't working, then I couldn't get a hold of a human to talk to. After doing some googling (maybe 1-2 hours), I found the phone number to call customer service. When I got to t…

Hi numbers! I'm a software engineer at Google and I just wanted to let you know how to get your money back! I'm sorry if we weren't properly indexed when the card was retired, but as of now searching for 'google wallet prepaid refund' returns the correct link at the top. (With the phone support number on the 'Contact Us' sub-page listed there[1].) Since we had special support staff for this refund (and Wallet in gene…

Great! Thanks for the reply and your time! :D I will be giving them a call.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by taigeair »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #65
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?

You actually use bitcoin?

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by taigeair »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #65
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?

You actually use bitcoin?

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by aclevernickname »

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…

It's very interesting/telling that this question was not answered by jrockway, but those above/below it were.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by maaku »

lucb1e wrote: post #224
revelation wrote: post #39

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Google Wallet is how old now, three+ years? They didn't even bother adding any other way to pay than credit cards. Someone needs to tell them that there are countries where people simply don't use credit cards. They exist, but at cost, and the culture just isn't there. If they continue innovating in the payment space at this rate, they will maybe have a solution people here can actually use in 2020.

Talking about credit cards, what's the difference between a credit card and just a bank account? At my bank you can get a credit card at an added cost, but it's not needed for anything in the Netherlands so I never looked into it.

Credit cards have nothing to do with bank accounts. Maybe you're thinking of debit cards?

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by lucb1e »

maaku wrote: post #247
lucb1e wrote: post #224

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Talking about credit cards, what's the difference between a credit card and just a bank account? At my bank you can get a credit card at an added cost, but it's not needed for anything in the Netherlands so I never looked into it.

Credit cards have nothing to do with bank accounts. Maybe you're thinking of debit cards?

Uh yes I guess. With a debit card (we just call them bank cards) you withdraw money from the bank account, but from what I've heard a credit card doesn't work entirely the same.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by duaneb »

chintan wrote: post #110
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.

Is this only Gmail-to-Gmail? or between existing wallet customers? If you allow any email, then what about man-in-middle attack as the email might go over SMTP/plain text?

I suspect it is attached to the email symbolically only, and the money is transferred from google account to google account via some other route.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by mcherm »

Geee wrote: post #133
adsenseclient wrote: post #61

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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…

As the service is connected to your email and your Google+ accounts, it's possible that Google can determine actual frauds with much more accurately than, for example, Paypal. Google is a data company after all, and I'd be surprised if they don't employ big data techniques to build trust networks and pinpoint frauds.

No one can determine fraud with absolutely no false positives. If there is no way to "appeal", then those false positives (no matter how few) will be thoroughly screwed.
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