Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:32:01 -0700 Chris Lang wrote: Nothing new, waste of time to complain about it, it is simply digital sales on the web. Interesting stuff I hope, but no solutions for you, except make sure there is an email and phone number for contact all over your sites and products.

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Lang
I would be more worried the latest cart abandonment rate stats from Forester Research. 71% of carts get abandoned before the checkout process is complete. Used to be 50%. Could be so many variables, hard to say why. The best thing you can do in any cart situation is get the email address at the

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Lang
Sorry about the sig file, I am taking that down now, wont' happen again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:23:20 -0700 Chris Lang wrote: 71% of carts get abandoned before the checkout process is complete. Used to be 50%. Could be so many variables, hard to say why. The best thing you can do in any cart situation is get the email address at the start. Hmmm, good point

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:32:01 -0700 Chris Lang wrote: One friend took in $770,000 in a week during a big launch. PayPal held the entire amount for months as a fraud review. What did he do, just annoy his customers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread chrislang
No, PayPal saw an large amount of income suddenly come in, their anti fraud flags went up, they held the sales for no reason. Single sales on a $2K info product. I wish I could annoy my customers to the tune of $750K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-16 Thread String
We don't say throw us under the bus because they've got a planned outage. That's fine, everybody has to do maintenance. We say throw us under the bus because usually, when Checkout goes down, there is no error reporting to the user. All they see is that their payments don't authorize, and the

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-16 Thread Chris Lang
Sure Filipemnoa, be glad to... One friend took in $770,000 in a week during a big launch. PayPal held the entire amount for months as a fraud review. You get kicked off merchant accounts all the time for to many returns, or worse yet charge backs. You can get kicked of PayPal fast if you for

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Lang
I have been taking payments thru PayPal for the last decade. They have the same problems. So throw us under the bus a bit much. Same goes for full blown merchant accounts, I have horror stories you won't believe, some of you have been around longer then me too and will. So I agree with you on

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-15 Thread Felipemnoa
It would be great to learn from one or two of your horror stories in the hope of avoiding any similar problems in the future. Care to share some of those with us? On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Chris Lang chrisl...@gmail.com wrote: I have been taking payments thru PayPal for the last decade.