Are you sure you cannot sell stuff even without merchant support? Here in my country (Brazil) the merchant account is also not supported, but they give me the option to use an AdSense account instead to receive money.
It's far from ideal, and makes me have to jump through additional hoops just to sell apps. But it's allowed.
Re:Android Income Report
by lucian1900 on Sunday May 13, 2012 @03:40PM
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You should really give SlideME a try, some have been pleasantly surprised by it. Maybe even Amazon's marketplace thing.
This means that I cannot sell apps, so the 3 options I have would be to:
1) go with an ad-supported model
2) enable in-app payments with a third-party provider, such as PayPal, but this is tricky because it goes against the guidelines of Google Play
3) publish the app on my own website, with payments through PayPal, being the only sane solution for me in case I don't want an ad-supported model
I'm extremely disappointed that Google, after 4 years of Android being on the market, is still not allowing my country. And I wouldn't have a problem selling iOS apps in iTunes. Not only that, but there have been numerous reports of extremely poor customer service for Google Checkout, so even if you're blessed to live in an approved country, you can still get fucked.
And then people wonder why the ad-supported model is preferred for Android.