Quote Originally Posted by BBG View Post
I was thinking of prompting the user when they first add an item to the shopping cart, something like "Please enter your shipping location so we can calculate shipping costs". Although, I'm not sure if that would violate Google's TOS. As a bonus, for US addresses, you could also send Google the calculated shipping values (instead of the fallback guesstimates) if you knew where it was being shipped to- although I've never seen the live callback timeout yet <knock on wood>.
That would work too. But from the stand point of buyer experience I would still prefer a simple checkbox (if that does not turn out to be too difficult to implement). This way, U.S. buyers will need to do nothing extra when using Google checkout (the checkbox is unchecked by default), and international buyers will need to make merely one more click, and everything should work.

Whether or not somebody will find it worthwhile to put in effort and implement something like this, will depend on how soon Google can be expected to get rid of this shipping limitation itself. Does anybody know what can we expect in this regard? If this limitation is going to stay for the good part of 2007, I really hope somebody would step forward and create this work-around for us all.