You my friend are the amateur. "the links made available only to those people testing it" This leads to the VPN and permissions for 20 or so people around the world that it stated in my post. The administrative overhead is not needed.
At best they should say that the sites are in beta but most already know this. Not to mention the words testing at the top of buzz-inc.
Google shopping is still in beta and has been live for a year......
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