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Purchase Pro accounts through the Android Market

steamey says:
Hi,

I read some current forum threads mentioning difficulties with "ugly PayPal" when upgrading to Pro, and some other (now older) threads suggesting to offer alternative payment methods, especially Google Checkout. Details see:

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/?q=google+checkout&Search=Search
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/?q=paypal&Search=Search
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/12051/ https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/4827/

RTM staff have commented several times in these threads that "we'd love to be able to support additional payment methods", but that at the time (i.e. some years ago from now) there were no true alternatives available, at least not in Australia.

Well, it seems that this situation has changed in the meantime:

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134420
==> "Merchants in Argentina*, ******Australia******, Austria, Belgium, Brazil*, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel*, Italy, Japan, Mexico*, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia*, Singapore, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan*, United Kingdom, and the United States can also use Google Checkout to sell applications on Android Market."

See also https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/13720/

So if these alternative payment methods evidently do exist, why should RTM not finally and "officially" offer them by default?

I post this as an idea so that other people can vote for it. Maybe this will help accelerating things a bit ... ;-)

Cheers
Posted at 7:49am on October 18, 2011
(closed account) says:
I'm not sure I understand the problem here (though, admittedly I have not read through all the other threads). Is it just that you don't like the PayPal interface, or is PayPal not available to you in your location? It's not like you'd have to do anything beyond the first transaction as you can set it up to automatically renew.
Posted 2 years ago
dave.liao says:
I know a number of folks (including me!) get Google Play Store credits through various means, and it would be cool to spend that credit on RTM. 💵
Posted 2 years ago
(closed account) says:
Ah! I understand. Good point.
Posted 2 years ago
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