Buy Now Policies seem flawed...

On 6/12/07, Chexed < chexedgmail.com">chexedgmail.com> wrote:

The following is to say, if you were to run a community website for
which users must register to participate, you would likely logically
have your registration on the front page, and according to this
policy, you must then also be selling something on the front page,
when typically, selling products is not the primary source of a social
networking sites revenues. So forcing such a service, albeit quite
valuable, is inherintely secondary in nature of some site structures
and thus having a higher potential to damage the value of the site,
unless placement options were more viable, of course, still
appropriately (e.g. no Buy Now buttons where there is nothing to
buy)..

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=46051&topic=8669
&quot;Place Buy Now buttons before any registration or sign-in pages.&quot;

Other policies on this page are questionable, at least to me, as well.

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Just to touch on another policy real quick on the same page, I can
suppose a number of reasons why Google would not want sellers
collecting zipcodes, however, it seems the appropriate times for
collecting zipcodes as defined by Google are quite strict. What if I
wanted to check not to see if something were available (i.e.), but for
example (e.g.), I wanted to check if someone lived in my state, to see
if tax was necessary, or to make sure if they signed up for a news
letter, they would not get deals for things not available in their
area.

Note, "i.e." is pretty strict, and I assumed it was meant to be so,
while "e.g." is much more flexible, though vague.

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