According to Mercury News, JR.com is having some issues with Google Checkout. The New York online retailer is having an unpredicted amount of sales this holiday season due to the recent promotion being offered by Google Checkout.
Google is offering $10 off any order of $30 or more (without shipping costs). Google is doing this as a huge effort to become a huge competitor to PayPal. While PayPal is primarily — in my opinion — geared towards consumers rather than larger companies, Google still feels the need to enter that market.
Google Checkout is only a payment processor and does not actually store your cash (as far as I know). I’ve never sold anything using Google Checkout, only paid for things. So JR.com’s customers are experiencing delays in their orders because there are so many orders going through the Google Checkout system.
