I was one of the first to sign up for Google checkout, as it came on line the very day I had my Paypal nightmare and I needed a way to allow people to pay (before they were banned on Ebay). I won't go in to the Paypal details, you can find a thousand similar stories, but I would like to illustrate why Google is going to crush them. About 2 weeks ago, after I messed up and sent a "Google Button" to an international customer, My checkout screen had the message "Account under review, you may still post items for sale but you may not withdraw funds". After my recent experience with Paypal, I about wanted to cry. I started sending an email to Google support to try and get an answer but before I finished, my account was back on line and everything was fine. If I had logged on later, I would never have known it ever happened. Compare that with Paypal policies and execution. Oh, and they have worked great start to finish.