On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at ways to sell my app to countries where Android Market > does not allow people to buy apps (only free apps available in > market). > > I was looking at Slideme.org, but most of the apps there seem free and > the details on their website seem scant about how to actually setup an > account so they can pay me using say PayPal. Also, I couldn't reach > them by phone, so I'm guessing its a pretty small operation. > > I was also thinking about using Google Checkout to sell directly from > my website. Would use a buy now button for digital content delivery, > using a server 2 server back end post to send a license key to Google > checkout which they only show to user after they've paid (or > authorized, or something). User would then enter license key on my > website using an Android phone browser only and if key is good would > get redirected to the .apk file for download. > > Still lots of risks for piracy. I suppose having the user enter the > license key in the app itself and having the app communicate back with > the server for validation might be better, and there are other > solutions for that as well. > > My main questions are: > - Does anyone have experience using SlideMe for actually selling apps, > and are they good with service and getting you paid? > I don't think they have too good of a record on this these days. I've seen developers reporting problems on the slideme forums and the posts are promptly deleted. One user koxx (developer of Pure Messenger) was pretty vocal about SlideME not paying him. You might want to check around a bit and make sure this is not a wide-spread problem. Or perhaps developers using SlideME can just chime in here and let us know if they have received payouts.
> -Is there any issue with using the same Google Checkout account that > is linked to my sales on the Android Market to sell directly from my > website?? > -Is it against any Google policy to sell an app directly using Google > Checkout for the same app that is available through Android Market?? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/zappstore http://zappmarket.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
