A couple of days back, I wrote about how the first round dual between Google Checkout and eBay’s Pay Pal went to Pay Pal. In fact, as it turned out to be, there was no competition at all.



Yesterday, an article in Power Seller King says that a recent survey of around thirty online retailers, 81 per cent of that seemed to be wary of Google Checkout over fears of ‘ceding customer ownership to Google’.



Not only that, online retailers are also worried that Google will store information of customers and may limit their ability to communicate to customers via email. In addition to this, online sellers are wary of Google’s ability to kick them out for fraudulent activities that would solely be decided and defined by Google. Google has a non-transparent approach to fraudulent activities and as it happened to many publishers kicked out of Google’s AdSense program. Google never pointed out where the fraud took place citing ‘proprietary’ reasons.



As reported earlier, Levi’s has already removed the Google Checkout payment processing option from its site but the reason cited was performance shortcomings.