So Long Plastic: Google Wallet Now Uses Any Credit Card

[exfileme]

Google Wallet has moved beyond MasterCard. Now it just needs more supporting devices.

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[amdwilliam1985]

I got the 8GB N7, and I have no problem installing Google Wallet from the Play store, might be due to 4.1.1.

I just activated my wallet today, I was waiting for it to support VISA, and i love the fact that Google gives me $10 credit.

Read through google.com/wallet, it seems like it is accepted anywhere where they're taking Paypass, I'm going to give it a try at my local chain grocery store tonight

 

[axiler]

Not sure I quite like giving my credit card info to google..

 

[geeksinhere23]

paypal is what I use to pay most of my online payment now a day. is hackable like every creditcard but is traceable for every transaction. and is more guarantee that you will get your refund back if you dispute for the bad item. just my 2cent.

 

[killerclick]

I prefer cash. I'm old school like that, also no one knows what I'm spending money on.

 

[dalethepcman]

[citation][nom]geeksinhere23[/nom]paypal is what I use to pay most of my online payment now a day. is hackable like every creditcard but is traceable for every transaction. and is more guarantee that you will get your refund back if you dispute for the bad item. just my 2cent.[/citation]

Paypal is horrible, I personally know of many people that have had their accounts seized for selling items that were legal. Point and case would be used autocad and office disk's with cd key. Even though the courts stated it was legal to resell them, one complaint from a major company and your paypal account gets frozen and funds seized seized with little to no recourse for the end user to recover their funds.

At least with a credit card, your not loosing your money if it gets abused by a third party. This is why the credit card companies take fraud so seriously, because they have to pay it not the consumer. I am very happy with google wallet for making payments / purchases, and square up for taking them. PayPal used to be great, but has gone down the toilet over the last 5 years.

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

May I be so blunt to say that my phone is still made of plastic?

 

[Shin-san]

[citation][nom]axiler[/nom]Not sure I quite like giving my credit card info to google..[/citation]
I'm feeling the same. The ex-CEO said something along of the lines that there is no privacy

[citation][nom]geeksinhere23[/nom]paypal is what I use to pay most of my online payment now a day. is hackable like every creditcard but is traceable for every transaction. and is more guarantee that you will get your refund back if you dispute for the bad item. just my 2cent.[/citation]I don't know why you are getting the thumbs down, even though I agree with the others about Paypal being evil. I still use it if it's not on an established site like Amazon or Newegg.

The problem is that I basically can do $2,000 of transactions before I end up having to cancel and sign up again, unless I give them my checking account number. I have problems giving out my CC # as it is, which is the whole bloody point of Paypal, and a huge reason to use credit cards!

 

[velocityg4]

Current credit cards are fine. Just drop the RFID crap so that thieves can't read them in your wallet. Is it really that difficult to swipe through the reader? If you want something you can wave in front of the reader then make them with bar codes and cover with a thin laminate to protect from wear.

Also I don't really want Google to make money off every purchase I make. Then record that data for ad placement.

 

[teh_chem]

[citation][nom]geeksinhere23[/nom]paypal is what I use to pay most of my online payment now a day. is hackable like every creditcard but is traceable for every transaction. and is more guarantee that you will get your refund back if you dispute for the bad item. just my 2cent.[/citation]
^^^NOT this
[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]Paypal is horrible, I personally know of many people that have had their accounts seized for selling items that were legal. Point and case would be used autocad and office disk's with cd key. Even though the courts stated it was legal to resell them, one complaint from a major company and your paypal account gets frozen and funds seized seized with little to no recourse for the end user to recover their funds.At least with a credit card, your not loosing your money if it gets abused by a third party. This is why the credit card companies take fraud so seriously, because they have to pay it not the consumer. I am very happy with google wallet for making payments / purchases, and square up for taking them. PayPal used to be great, but has gone down the toilet over the last 5 years.[/citation]
^^^ This. I can't believe that to-date, paypal is allowed to withhold finances from individuals essentially arbitrarily, for an arbitrary amount of time, and yet is not recognized as a financial institution (and as such, not upheld to the same rules, regulations, and audit process that actual financial institutions are). Anyone who continues to use paypal is just sitting on a ticking timebomb waiting for their account to be frozen for some inane (and difficult-to-get from paypal) reason. Not to mention that google wallet can be used for physical transactions, so paypal is a pretty irrelevant comparison.

I did open and set up the google wallet app on my phone, but I haven't used it for payment yet. There were initial concerns from some early adopters about their credit card flagging the set-up and 1st payment process through google wallet as a fraudulent charge, but apparently that boiled down to the individual's bank, not google wallet.

Curious how widely this gets adopted. I don't even know how many businesses around me use the POS transaction modules.

 

[amdwilliam1985]

[citation][nom]amdwilliam1985[/nom]I got the 8GB N7, and I have no problem installing Google Wallet from the Play store, might be due to 4.1.1.I just activated my wallet today, I was waiting for it to support VISA, and i love the fact that Google gives me $10 credit.Read through google.com/wallet, it seems like it is accepted anywhere where they're taking Paypass, I'm going to give it a try at my local chain grocery store tonight[/citation]

Made a transaction last night in the local store, it was kind of awkward, but it was also awesome...
Literary the biggest wallet in the world, haha(thank you google for the drinks).
Still got a few $ left in my free credit.

As for privacy concern, I used google checkout before for the $10 off deals back then when it was first introduced. So far all my credits are in tact 😉
Since we need to give our credit info to someone, I rather give it to Google, they're the only ones I trusted(next in line is Amazon).

 

[pscgod]

just go ahead and install the google approved chip into my hand and lets get this over with. sure there will be a small increase in hands being chopped off but its a small step in googles world dominance