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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (40%)
- Errors (38%)
- Website Down (22%)
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The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Lyon
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Errors | 2 days ago |
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Paris
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Sign in | 4 days ago |
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Saint-Étienne
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
 Tlaquepaque
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Errors | 6 days ago |
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Massy
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Website Down | 6 days ago |
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Montlouis-sur-Loire
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Sign in | 8 days ago |
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0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reportedA $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.
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Paga Customer Care (@mypagacare) reported@zetaxion @paga @oviosu Hi, I can confirm that this issue with your Paypal access via Paga has been resolved, and you are now able to log in. If you have other concerns, do let us know. Paga cares.
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MKizzle (@mkdaone_) reportedNo contact is no problem.. but taking your card off my PayPal is just too ******* far
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Nasi Tumpang (@precilkdrtumpan) reported@eryndor_0 @Honeyhoneyjoe @AskPayPal Hello, I have a similar issues. What about your progress? My account has been disabled permanently. I don't know why my account has been disabled. I just want to withdraw my balance if the account recovery.
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Victoria 💫 COMMS CLOSED (@Victoria9ax6) reportedI will reopen comms in about a week, I’ve been having problems with paypal so my bad for that. I’ll try to get it fixed soon 🫶💞 thanks for being patient
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sir *** ference (@misofujo) reportedim eu server can send over paypal orrrr bank transfer or revolut or wtv i Dont mind
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meg ★ on tour! (@JustDrive_Meg) reportedBringing it down to $25!!! PayPal G&S Only!
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Elorac🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 (@cassa748) reported@PayPal I am having enormous problems wit a dispute, disagree with seller's response but your VA cannot help, I really need to contact a human who can help
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Luz (@leftyluz22) reported@liifesupports It took so long but when I got to checkout I did express checkout w PayPal it gave me an error message initially but I got the confirmation email and it showed up in my orders a few mins later.
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Kasper🔜Bday countdown (@KasperGalactica) reportedUPDATE ON THE BUYEE ISSUE THEY JUST HATE MY PAYPAL I HAVE SHIPPED HIM OUT
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Nova 🐊🦊 | Vgen and Ko-fi Open (@Novalligator) reported@Kosaki_rose Content PayPal support, they SHOULD be able to help since it was a genuine issue -Coming from someone who had the same thing happen
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Mr. Brick Farley 🤫 (@dbeigton) reported@HolderOftheFire Sell PayPal and use exit money to buy Tesla and build up the company and make it successful. Some get their first 9 fig exit and buy yachts and kind of cruise. Elon made flip after flip and still trying to attack problems, so end of day there’s a lot to learn from him
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Rena || Butchzai CEO 🇧🇷🍒 (@sincerelyosamu) reported@PlaneKepler452b i dont want to use paypal either lmao😭😭 ive heard it bans your account out of nowhere and im paranoid as **** also, there are alternatives but they all have their own issues
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Fher Men (@kra_1986) reported@bookingcom @bookingcomhelp Reservation 896280116. Overbooking relocation issue. Management approved a cash refund of CAD 329.44 in writing via Live Chat, but your system is now ignoring me. I have filed a dispute with PayPal and OPC Quebec. Fix this immediately.
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Lepus Ab Urbe (@coineagan) reportedI really gotta fix the connection between my PayPal and go fundme. My damn dead name keeps showing up lol
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Monsieur Panda (@2MonsieurPanda) reportedSo last month I had 5 people interested in commissioning me. One had PayPal issue, one I made the doodle, one wanted to work with me... All of them ghosted me, nobody paid, or told me they weren't interested. So I'm wondering if I should just stop making commissions.
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AmericanFortress (@Americanfort_io) reportedPrivacy tools in crypto have become a compliance problem. Mixers co-mingle funds with unknown counterparties. You can't verify who you're transacting with. Zcash works, but only for one token on one chain. Institutions don't want mixers. They want a decentralized PayPal. Non-interactive cryptographic proofs can auto-generate a unique stealth address for every transaction. Counterparty verified. Nothing hits the public ledger. Works across every major chain.
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quinnlove (@quinnloveg) reported@err0wrld yes, one tried to ask me to get my login info so they can “approve” of a paypal transaction. no boo.
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Harshit Bohra | Cards Wizard (@cards_wizard) reported📋 Before you book with TRIPATHALF, know this: 🔸 Can't club with other offers/wallet/coupons 🔸 No PayPal, My Wallet, or COD payments 🔸 Not valid on Reserve Now Pay Later 🔸 Cancel later? You lose the discount too, not just the fare 🔸 Enter the code correctly — miss it and there's no retroactive fix Read the fine print before you hit book.
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0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reportedA $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.
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NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reportedCindy's been through hell the last 2 years, disabled by injury, nightmare LL, took on 4- & 6-y/o niblings as guardian, at great personal cost. Her car needs a new thermostat, among other issues. Total $910; 18 ppl, $50 each: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42
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sandy (@pinky_xandylee) reported@AskPayPal I still can’t contact or call customer support, I’m currently in Nigeria how do I reach them to be able to gain access to my account. It’s almost impossible, I have been on this for weeks. Ii can’t login because my device was stolen and I need access
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Mariya Valeva (@mariyav4leva) reportedHow to validate your idea with $0: 1. Find 10 strangers with the exact problem. Reddit, LinkedIn, Slack groups, X. Not friends. Strangers have no reason to be polite. 2. Ask what they're currently doing to solve it. If the answer is nothing, the problem isn't painful enough. 3. Ask what it's costing them. If they can't quantify it fast, the pain isn't real enough to build on. 4. Offer to solve it manually before you build anything. Spreadsheet, Notion, Zoom. If they say yes, you have a customer. If they say "I'll wait for the product," you have nothing yet. 5. Ask for $50 upfront toward the eventual product. Stripe link, PayPal, whatever. If they won't commit even that, the problem isn't painful enough. 6. Do it 10 more times. One is a coincidence. Three is a pattern. Ten is something to build on. The goal isn't to prove you're right. It's to find out where you're wrong before you've wasted six months.
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ore (@lanalovesbooks0) reportedafter my problems with paypal last year, i no longer submit to magazines like chestnut who will only pay you if you have a paypal account
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Shadab Farooqui (@shadab) reportedInteresting that a Nasdaq traded company @PayPal ONLY offers chat based support and apparently does not have any way to escalate a technical issue which the chat agent was unable to resolve. Is this for real? @PayPal @AskPayPal
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Aditya (@AdityaCursed) reported@Cal_I_Guess No option to add Paypal. The only reliable way is buying giftcards which only come in 1k,2k,3k etc. if i wanna buy a game thats 599 i gotta pay an extra 400 to get a 1000 rupee gift card and only use half on the digital purchase. Not the case with physical. Unless they fix this+
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MadMomVibes (@MadMomVibes) reported@HopefulN7 @PayPal This is REALLY bad for international orders, where it can take WEEKS for a shipment to arrive. As PayPal USED to be the gold standard in consumer protection. Hell… we’ve had PayPal issue refunds to people making DONATIONS that earned a reward that was in preproduction. F That
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KT (@KT87985373) reported8-5--Sebastian Rogers: Where is he?? Deep Discussion Brittney’s 8-5 stream was titled “Sebastian Rogers: Where Is He?? Deep Discussion,” and after more than an hour of theme music, birthday greetings, baby clothes, technical problems, monetization reminders, an unrelated internet crisis, scheduling complaints, and accidentally blocking her own moderator, the “deep discussion” finally arrived. Nothing says urgent missing-child coverage quite like needing provisions and a trail map to reach the actual topic. Once Brittney finally got to Sebastian, she repeatedly reminded viewers that Seth Rogers’s lawsuits contain unproven civil allegations and that everyone should remain respectful because nobody knows what happened to Sebastian. That is responsible framing. It is also remarkably convenient framing from someone who previously used the disappearance of a Tennessee child as the backdrop for a RICO/injunction filing in Pennsylvania against two single-mother creators who live there. Sebastian disappeared in Tennessee. The investigation was conducted in Tennessee. The people responsible for finding him are in Tennessee. Yet somehow two women in Pennsylvania were dragged into a sprawling legal narrative as though their commentary channels were the missing link in the Sumner County investigation. Seth Rogers even reportedly said those two creators would have “blood on their hands” if Sebastian was not found. Not the investigators accused of mishandling the scene. Not the agencies named in his federal lawsuits. Not the adults who were physically present in Sebastian’s life. Two YouTube creators hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania that never met the boy or his family. Very logical. Very evidence-based. Definitely not an attempt to weaponize a missing child’s case against critics. And this is exactly why so many people no longer feel comfortable saying Sebastian’s name publicly. It is not because they stopped caring about Sebastian. It is because anyone who questions Seth, challenges a claim, asks for documentation, or refuses to join the approved Green Team narrative risks being labeled an enemy of the case. People critical of Seth have been doxxed, had their employers or jobs targeted, received cease-and-desist letters, faced lawsuits, and were publicly accused of interfering with the search for Sebastian. Brittney, Seth, and members of the Green Team have helped create an environment where disagreement is not treated as disagreement. It is treated as sabotage. A question becomes harassment. Criticism becomes defamation. Documentation becomes stalking. And refusing to accept every claim as fact apparently means you do not care whether Sebastian is found. That does not keep Sebastian’s name alive. It creates a chilling effect around his case. People stop covering it because they do not want their personal information exposed. They stop asking questions because they do not want their jobs contacted. They stop discussing inconsistencies because they do not want a legal threat delivered to their door. They stop saying Sebastian’s name because the people claiming to advocate for him have made doing so feel legally and personally dangerous. Then Brittney turns around and worries that people are going to stop talking about Sebastian and allow the case to go cold. GTFOH with all your fake concern you are one of the reasons people stopped saying his name. Why would that possibly happen? Could it be the lawsuits? The cease-and-desist letters? The doxxing allegations? The employment targeting? The public threats that critics may have “blood on their hands”? The message has been perfectly clear: Talk about Sebastian - but only if you repeat the approved narrative. Keeping Sebastian’s name alive is not the same thing as using his name to validate lawsuits, attack former friends, silence commentary channels, and build an online persecution narrative. Those are two very different things. Brittney also leaned heavily on Seth’s lawsuits while correctly repeating that allegations in a complaint are not proven facts. That disclaimer apparently applies when discussing government agencies - but becomes much more flexible when the allegations involve the Proudfoots or creators she dislikes. When the lawsuit accuses investigators, we must wait for evidence. When Brittney and the Green Team accuse the Proudfoots or other YouTubers, apparently a livestream, a theory, and an attorney are plenty. The DCS portion was especially revealing because Brittney admitted she did not have the actual complaint and instead relied on an AI-generated summary. So viewers received hours of legal commentary based partly on a summary of a pleading she had not read, while the stream still treated the existence of the lawsuit as evidence that the underlying accusations must have merit. Filing a lawsuit proves that someone filed a lawsuit. Sending a cease-and-desist proves that someone sent a letter. Calling someone dangerous does not make them dangerous. And none of it explains why two Pennsylvania single mothers were treated as though they were obstructing a Tennessee missing-child investigation. Sebastian deserves coverage centered on: Where is he? And what can still be done to find him. He does not deserve to have his name used as legal ammunition in creator drama. The most disturbing part is that Brittney can now sit through an entire stream carefully explaining that civil allegations remain unproven while apparently never recognizing how reckless it was to help attach Sebastian’s name to accusations against unrelated critics. Accountability for government agencies? If the allegations were true - yes Reviewing Seth’s lawsuits? Fair enough. Demanding unquestioning loyalty, targeting anyone critical of her coverage or Seth, and suggesting Pennsylvania YouTubers may have “blood on their hands” if a Tennessee child remains missing? That is not spreading awareness for the missing and it is definitely not advocacy. That is intimidation wearing a green-heart costume. But please remember to hit the like button, become a member, send a super chat, or bypass YouTube’s 30 percent through PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. 🙄 Because apparently even a six-hour missing-child discussion needs several grifting breaks. A few things I'd like to add: Youtubers are NOT investigators - They need to STOP playing investigator! Stop using Sebastian, his case, and his family in creator drama/feuds!
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Daniel - Budai Media 📧 (@thedanielbudai) reportedIf you sell peptides, marketing isn't your biggest problem. Getting paid is. Stripe, PayPal, Square, they'll process transactions for a few weeks just fine. Then a routine review freezes the account, and the cash sitting in it gets held for 90 to 120 days. We've watched this happen to brand after brand. Here's what founders get wrong about why it happens: These processors aren't judging the brand's compliance. They're judging the category. Peptides get flagged on three things simultaneously: product risk, international shipping, and the RUO grey area. Being fully compliant doesn't exempt a brand from any of it. Here's what actually holds up: 1. Skip the mainstream processors entirely. Go high-risk from day one instead. That means paying 3.5% to 6% instead of the standard 2.9%, but that difference is the cost of staying online instead of frozen. 2. Guard the chargeback rate like it's the whole business, because it basically is. Cross 1% for two months running and the account is done. Clear product pages, fast refunds, and proactive shipping updates are what keep that number under control. 3. Never run on a single processor. Two or three processors running in parallel means revenue keeps moving the moment one of them freezes, instead of the entire business stalling out. Payments come before marketing, not after. The best ad account in the world is worthless if checkout can't actually take the money. Comment "PAYMENTS" and I'll send you our full payment processing guide for peptide brands.
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Dani Diaz (@danidiaz) reported@nberardi @AskPayPal I closed my account the the whole “misinformation” overreach went down. Have not needed them at all.