Cannot enable billing

[Michael Lorton]

I need to enable billing so I can use the BlobStore API (bit of a bait-
n-switch there not warning me it was only paid-for, but let that be).

I pressed the "Enable Billing" button, went through the Google
Checkout, I got a receipt in the mail, my status on the Billing
Settings page when to "Activating Billing" for a half-hour and then
went back to "Free".

I tried the usual things (different credit-cards and so on) but no
love.

I've opened an issue with support for this.

[mcilrain]

Well, the blobstore isn't really paid-for, as it has a free quota, but
you have to enable billing in order to get it, it is a little strange.

If you want things to be as free as possible, set the daily budget as
low as possible (I think it's $1), and put that all towards a quota
that you never use up.

[Jason (Google)]

Hi Michael. For any billing-related issues, please use the form linked
from our billing FAQ:

http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/billing.html#morehelp

We're currently processing a large billing backlog, so many common
billing operations are taking longer than usual. While billing must be
enabled in order to use the Blobstore service in production, you can
use it in the local SDK regardless of billing status, so you should be
able to develop against the API while our system finishes activating
billing for your app.

- Jason