There have been many forum threads about issues making sales using GAE + Paypal. Long, long time ago Ikai would respond, and one time he did say he would call PP about it. However, the silence since then has been deafening. Bottom line is that reliable payment processing to non- Google providers does and apparently will always require undocumented proxy work-arounds (I'm presuming Google Checkout works w/o work- arounds). Sadly, just two days ago I was talking to a SMB owner who uses a plug-and-play GoDaddy system. His bricks+mortar biz is growing rapidly and he can benefit greatly from some on-line branding improvements. He relies on PP for on-line sales, and I had to be frank with him about GAE. That's a lost customer for sure -- and I did try to present GAE positively. Unfortunately, pitching a system to a SMB owner and needing to talk about him/her running proxy servers at AWS in order to COMPLETE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT thing his/her business does is... well it's a non-starter for sure**. If Mike could star this issue, he certainly would have, but he's never going to be in the position to do so because he will always work with a provider who is attuned to ensuring that he can COMPLETE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT this his business does. (Yes is some ways GoDaddy is more appealing than Google -- yikes.) With regrets, stevep.
** - before you flame me about how this guy can so easily hire someone to set this up, please realize that folks can have different priorities, and when one is very busy running a multi-faceted business finding/hiring a guy like Brandon may not be top of the list. Summary: "It Just Works" can be way more appealing than "It Just Works Once You Add A Proxy Server". On Dec 29, 10:10 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sure put my service out of business... I see how it is :-) > > At only 3 stars maybe we discovered in advance that there's no market > for the product ;-) > > Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en.
