Nov 10 2008
Merchant Fraud
I guess Merchant Fraud is running rampant. This explains why it’s taking a few extra days to get anything setup online as far as doing business.
Google took extra long, verifying my checking account information before finally giving me a merchant account. I thought this was a bit odd, considering they already have my information for the ad-sense experiment I ran for a while.
The Account with iTunes is taking a long time. Their email response was kurt, simply stating it’s not easy setting up an account that sells software in 75 countries. Seventy five?
Wow.
Lesson learned: setup the merchant accounts first.
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Wow — good lesson learned. Although, now that you will have it set up for Buy That Duplex, would you need to go through the whole process again for a different product?
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@Alison: Thankfully not! Once my account is established, I can put any number of applications up for sale. But just getting that first one is taking forever.