Ebay bans Google Checkout !

eBay has banned sellers from using Google Checkout on eBay.
In a bid to protect PayPal, eBay has banned sellers from using Google Checkout, Google's payment service, on its site.

eBay has also changed the name of its Safe Payments Policy to Accepted Payments Policy, to serve as a lame excuse.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

It is mentioned in eBay's Safe Payments policy, that a payment service must have a “substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services.” According to eBay, sellers may not accept banned services on their eBay checkout systems.

It's ironic they would do this here, and in the same breath go to Congress and fight the Net Neutrality battle.
You can't fight for an open internet one day and then implement policies that close the walled garden the next.
Coffee - eBay please wake up and smell it. Trust and Safety is running (and ruining) your company.

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Google Chekout - the Paypal & CCAvenues Killer !

Being an avid online shopper , i regularly use paypal to make my online payments . I also use Indian Payment gateways like Payseal or CC Avenues. Now google checout is a similar service from the big online services giant Google itself. www.chekout.google.com

The best part from the vendors perspective is that as of 2008 , its completely free - payment gateways normally charge a % of transation(3-7%) as fee from the vendor apart from one time setup fee(Rs 20-50k) Now small vendors can shift to Google Checkout and offer online payments to their customers - no setup fee , no transaction fee ! Morever as usual the buyer does not need to pay anything extra apart from purchase price :-)http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29062&ctx=sibling

The relevant news is this service is available in India too. Now that is a major issue with paypal as it doesnt have operations in India , making the process more tedious. http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48115

Seems like Google Checkout is the Paypal and other payment platform killer ! Going by Google's reputation and resources - it shoudnt be very difficult too ;-)

The icing on the cake? Yes $10 sign up bonus offer is there - so hurry up ;-)

Now a Meeting ground for Bloggers !

I came across www.imparas.com/forum which turned out to be a platform for all of us bloggers to interact and share our experiences , discuss blogging and learn the tricks of the trade !

good going , finally bloggers have their own forum too !

Who is your Inspiration?

Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.”

I had no role model as such till i was a teenager...i was too occupied with myself. but as i grew up i started admiring people around me and tried to imbibe their qualities. i was on search of excellence

My biggest role model is no celebrity , its my own elder brother. He has been such an inspiration , and even if i can be 10% of what he is , id be a satisfied man.

My latest crush is on Sam Walton and our own Pantaloon's Mr Biyani. i can relate to them , i am a maverick by nature like them and i dream big with open eyes too.

However i believe its circumstances which make/break a man, and i am certainly waiting for my day ! and yes i will make it happen soon !

1st year of my MBA - Experiences and learnings

I was pretty clear that id make a difference to whichever institute i went -whether it be IIM or IIPM...i have such internal locus of controll. I have tried to walk the talk - its for u to decide if i have been able to make a difference or not.

Well i had my brother who did an MBA before me , so i had got some solid gyaan about an MBA experience from him.At that point i could not fully gasp or relate to what he said , but now i think he was perfectly on dot He said that 1st year is the phaze when you think you are right , while in 2nd yr you realise that u r not always right or rather there can be more than one rights to a single situation. During 2nd year u learn to accept other side of the view - he coined a term - U learn to AGREE TO DISAGREE Secondly he said that your close friends list will keep on changing from semester to semester. the one u didnt get along with in 1st sem would soon b a close buddy in 2nd sem and by 3rd sem it would go back to be a less friendly relationship....like a vicious circle. i thought this was absurd....but now i can vouch for this .MBA basically opens up ones ability to agree to disagree

my 1st year was unlike any typical MBA student. i did everything that i wanted to do and never cared for what others think should be done. I never ran after CGPA , i participated in various b school competitions , started a guest lecture club called Atithi2008 , bunked classes a lot , never "makhanofied" the faculties....in short i was a rebel. in the way i gave wrong impressions to lot of people about my arrogance. it was just that i knew what i wanted to do and my confidence was mistaken for arrogance (specially by those who could not be like me !)

The best part is inspite of all of this i always managed to score well , alas better than most of my peers and this made me loose a few more friends.... all in all i did exactly the opposite of a normal MBA student and in 2nd year i plan to be studious and study as now it would be only marketing subjects...which again would be hard to digest for most people who would not care much about CGPA anymore since the placements would already be over but i never came here for placements and i know right from the beginning that CGPA would not dictate my career . I am just too good for any recruiter to miss anyways

Indian Education System

India is typicall in the way education is approached in this country. Right from when we are born we are stressed upon with importance of marks. Weare forced to sacrifice our dreams and we mug up all the textbooks. The topper is not the most intelligent guy , its just the most hard working guy - one who can mug up faster and retain it longer !

Why only schooling , look at evn MBA courses. Studetns are mostly freshers and interested more in marks and CGPA than anything related to practicall management learnings.

I asked a kid what do u wanna be - i expected an engineer or pilot or actor as an answer but pat came the reply - MBA. On being asked why MBA?, declared than MBA's have good jobs and thy are rich !!!

MBA institutes in our country take advantage of this and treat applicants like lesser mortals. One needs to apply separately to all institutes , give 100 different entrance tests and play according to whims and facies of the administration.

Even in corporate world one will find interiewer stressing on the candidates 10 yr old 12th standard marksheets !

Look at Indian Entrepreneurs. The reason we dont think big enough is coz of the Preserver's atitude our education and family system inbibes in us. We dont wanna think big and take risks. we just wanna keep wht we have intact.

Great that India has the brightest brains but till we realise that education is just a means to the end and not the end in itself - we will continue to work for countries like United States , and continue to be a third world country. Till then any1 who reffers India as a superpower definately needs to introspect a bit more and look behind all the hype.