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Paypal down? How often?

Discussion in 'PayPal' started by ockert, Oct 9, 2005.

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    Has anybody noticed that Paypal was down over the last day or so?

    I have a website that does between 4 (never less than 3) and 8 sales per day, and over the last day or two there has been no sales.

    Then a customer emailed and said that Paypal is down.
    "Hi,
    Thought I had better keep you informed.
    Paypal has had the same message up now for the last 2 days...as below

    We are sorry, we are experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later. If this error occurred while making a payment, avoid duplicate payments by checking your Account Overview before resending a payment.

    Message 3005"




    On my side it had been up.

    So I am wondering, did anybody else experience downtime for Paypal?

    And, how coming is it for Paypl to be down?
     
    ockert, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  2. expat

    expat Stranger from a far land

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    Hi,
    no problems here (UK based) payments comming in.

    Check your set up - I remember having had some issues when I used a wrong parameter as while back.

    Expat
     
    expat, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  3. Morgan

    Morgan Well-Known Member

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    Didnt receive any problems with them over the last few days im in Aus but usually use the american site.
    Where are you situated and what url where you using just .com or another TLD?
     
    Morgan, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  4. Bryan

    Bryan Active Member

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    Have never really seen any downtime with Paypal, unless it's early in the morning when they are doing maintenance. They will then have a message up telling you what times they are doing maintenance from.
     
    Bryan, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  5. jojoyohan

    jojoyohan Peon

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    Thats happened to me before, I would remake the form and put in the new link that paypal gives you. That might help.
     
    jojoyohan, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  6. mddv

    mddv Well-Known Member

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    no problems with paypal thats why it is good to offer another method of payment if your site does have a high selling ratio.

    Best of luck

    Marty
     
    mddv, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  7. tstaut

    tstaut Active Member

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    No problems here...
     
    tstaut, Oct 9, 2005 IP
  8. ockert

    ockert Peon

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    Did a little bit of research... it might have to do with encryption. If you choose to encrypt your buy now button, it might cause problems.

    Found this on a paypal development forum
    "
    SteveH,

    This error has shown up with some members encrypted buttons lately. The only fix for the time being is to go back into PayPal and create an unencrypted button.

    Mike Thomson
    PayPal Tech Support
    PayPay, an eBay company
    www.paypal.com"
     
    ockert, Oct 10, 2005 IP
  9. digitall

    digitall Peon

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    It's working fine over here
     
    digitall, Oct 12, 2005 IP