Hey Jeff, Thanks for venting, this is a vicious cycle that needs to be fixed. We've addressed several issues that land people in the 'Free' => 'Activating...' => 'Free' bucket. These fixes will be rolled out with 1.6.5.
Next? Look into speeding up Checkout all together. -- Chris On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: > Seriously, this is ridiculous. > > We've been trying to enable billing on our sandbox/demo appid for the > last two hours. We have a customer waiting for a demo and we can't > give it. > > Please, PLEASE do something about this abomination. I love appengine, > but the billing system is retarded. It makes the Phone Company look > high tech. > > Every time we enable billing, it says "ok" and status goes to > Activating Billing. After some random amount of time it goes back to > Free mode with no error messages. Trying to enable it again emails > a nastygram: Comments from Google Services: "This inactive > subscription has been canceled" ...and goes back to Activating > Billing. Round and round we go. > > Appid is voosttest. Yes we've filed a request at the billing form. > > Put this in context. I can walk up to a janky ATM in Guatemala, put > in a card, and get money out of it immediately. I can whip out a > credit card in nearly any store in the world, buy thousands of dollars > of merchandise, and walk out with it. And yet the most technically > sophisticated corporation in the world needs 30+ minutes to process a > simple sale - when it works at all? I struggle to imagine what could > make this so complicated. > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.