androidcommunity.com - 3/13/2009
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Android Community is hearing from developers who are experiencing problems linking Merchant accounts to their Android Developer accounts, and as such are unable to list paid apps on the Android Market. Multiple developers are reporting seeing the error message “Sorry, we could not setup ...
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Developer Frustration: Android Market Blocking Some New Merchant Applications
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... The latest news out of the Android Community is that developers are experiencing some real problems linking their merchant accounts to their Android Developer accounts. What’s the big deal about this? Well, when you can’t link these accounts together, you can’t list paid apps on the Android Market. Kind of a biggy if you’re a developer. Many developers have reported spotting the error message above over the past few days. The unfortunate part so far is that Google ( ...
Android problem linking merchant and developer accounts
Phones Review —
... major problem with this for developers is if you can’t link the merchant account to the Android Developer account, then you simply can’t list paid applications on the Android Market.
This is obviously a big deal for Android developers, but it appears that Google’s support team is keeping rather quiet on the subject. No doubt Google will pull itself together in due course and sort this matter out or become inundated with emails from annoyed Android developers.
Source – androidcommunity ...
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