Google does not want you to donate to RunningAHEAD

eric :)

posted: 10/27/2009 at 11:49 PM

Google is forbidding the selling of intangible goods such as web services so renaming it to something else is not sufficient. Terms such as "subscription fee" and "karma points" won't be acceptable either. Why would they exclude themselves from a large segment of the online market?

In terms of tax auditing, they are not the IRS.

I was using PayPal a long time ago. Google came out with Checkout and their fees were lower than PayPal so I made the switch and hooked up their API so I can track all orders. If Google doesn't want my money, then take it back to PayPal. Another piece of evidence that Google is becoming a big brother.

LuckyLindy

posted: 10/28/2009 at 2:58 AM

Can you sell something like hosting space? For example, a super special profile page with larger max size of picture hosted on RA? Or maybe we can buy subscriber pins with the option for you to hold them in escrow instead of of us paying x.xx shipping/handling?

My 2010 goals:
-Get well (tendonitis is not going away)

dgb2n

Dave

posted: 10/28/2009 at 6:19 AM

Quote from eric :) on 10/27/2009 at 11:49 PM:

If Google doesn't want my money, then take it back to PayPal. Another piece of evidence that Google is becoming a big brother.

Someone just dropped to #621 on the google search rankings .

I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.

dgb2n@yahoo.com

eric :)

posted: 10/28/2009 at 9:47 AM

Quote from dgb2n on 10/28/2009 at 6:19 AM:

Someone just dropped to #621 on the google search rankings .

Quite the contrary! Try Googling for "google checkout funds solicitation". Google is scary fast. This thread appeared in Google's listing less than 12 hours after I created it.

Doug B

posted: 10/28/2009 at 10:45 AM

Maybe you could offer to sell stickers for $26.2 each, or less fancy ones for $13.1 each. I'm thinking of free stickers my kids get from the dentist. And we should all have the option to decline to recieve the actual sticker. Or pay a larger price for the sticker if we wish to.

2012 goal = 4:59 for 1,500 meters. (before then just get healthy)

redleaf

posted: 10/28/2009 at 10:57 AM

Quote from Doug B on 10/28/2009 at 10:45 AM:

Maybe you could offer to sell stickers for $26.2 each, or less fancy ones for $13.1 each. I'm thinking of free stickers my kids get from the dentist. And we should all have the option to decline to recieve the actual sticker. Or pay a larger price for the sticker if we wish to.

I like this idea. Except I'd want to add the $42.20 and $21.10 price points at the very least. Not to mention $5 and $10.

First or last...it's the same finish line

Strings_n_88keys

meh