I finally signed up for Google Checkout and Google currently has a promotion where you can get $10 free from your first purchase. I was trying to decide what to get. The Game’s new CD “Doctor’s Advocate”? Nah, I could get it cheaper here. A DVD? Nah. How about I go to the Google Store and get a t-shirt? Yeah, sounds good.
I go to the Google Store, pick out a few items and go the the cart. Being in Canada I am forced to use the Google Canada Store, which is fine with me expect for one problem. After checking my order I searched around for the Google Checkout button. You would think Google would have huge advertisements for it, but nope. I noticed “/CA/” was added to the URL so I deleted that. I was directed to the US store and the first thing I was was checkout with Google Checkout. I clicked it and proceeded. Unfortunately Google uses a third party to ship merchandise and that company does not ship to Canada.
It seems as though the Google Canada store only accepts credit card and the Google USA store only accepts Google Checkout. Hmmm very strange.