Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

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The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Guayaquil	Sign in	11 hours ago
Auxerre	Website Down	2 days ago
Le Havre	Website Down	2 days ago
La Riche	Errors	2 days ago
San Luis Potosí	Errors	2 days ago
Tampere	Sign in	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mike (@Mike_Kutola) reported 28 seconds ago

  Stripe and a private equity firm have offered $53 billion to buy PayPal — a 28% premium, backed by $50 billion in bank financing. PayPal's market value had fallen to under $41 billion, down 36% in a year, before this bid sent shares up 16% overnight.

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  Sevira Misacarthe - Vtuber🛏️😈 (@The_Myth_Elaine) reported 2 minutes ago

  I am looking to commission some artists about 2-3 months down the line I exclusively use vgen, no kofi, no paypal, ect. please do not dm me just post your portfolio in the comments if you can, after this first time my dms are so full :skull:

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  Wee Stocks (@WeeStocks) reported 2 minutes ago

  One of the biggest reversals in tech: PayPal was valued at around $350 billion at its 2021 peak. Now Stripe and private-equity firm Advent have reportedly offered just over $53 billion to buy it. The logic is easy to see. Stripe is deeply embedded behind online businesses, while PayPal brings Venmo, its familiar checkout button and 439 million active accounts. Together, they would process roughly $3.7 trillion in payments each year. The reported offer is $60.50 per share, around 28% above PayPal’s previous closing price. But this is not a completed deal, and PayPal has not accepted it. From here, $PYPL is partly a takeover trade: a higher bid would bring more upside, while failed talks could send the shares back down quickly. Interesting thing is that PayPal is sitting at roughly 10% below offer price, meaning that investors are pricing in possible rejection of the bid. I wonder how it will go down.

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  Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) reported 6 minutes ago

  Elon Musk is no Albert Einstein. Einstein published papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, special relativity, and E=mc². His general theory of relativity revolutionized physics. His works paved the way for GPS, smartphones, solar energy and nuclear power. Einstein was a vocal advocate for civil rights, education, and global peace. Musk, built PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI. But Musk is not an advocate for anything that would benefit the world. Instead, Musk highlights the need to avoid too much empathy. Musk raises the alarm regularly about low fertility. Despite the low fertility, albeit mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, Musk claims humans have to expand to Mars. In Musk's best known foray outside his companies, he headed up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE shut down USAID, established by JFK in 1961. Before being shut down, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldwide. Elon Musk said "USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair,” He later posted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” A peer reviewed study the Lancet provided a thorough counterfactual study of the impact of USAID over the preceding 21 years and a "what if" study examining the impact of shutdown to 2030. This finding indicates that 91,839,663 all-age deaths, including 30,391,980 in children younger than 5 years, were prevented by USAID funding over the 21-year study period. Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14,051,750 additional all-age deaths, including 4,537,157 in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030. That's 2.34 times the 6,000,000 deaths in the Holocaust.

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  anligne logs (@liminallogs) reported 7 minutes ago

  I mean they might be able to un-**** it, but that's a monumental task and also, is PayPal really worth $53B? The real issue is, beyond the infrastructure being (in my experience) ******, at times, the user trust and reputation of them as a payment processing platform is nuked.

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  LoriNSoCal60 🌊🐶🇺🇦🧡🐸🫶🏻 (@LCal60) reported 8 minutes ago

  @RoCoGB Does anyone have the PayPal or Venmo account name? The donation page is not working for me

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  DojiPad (@DojiPad) reported 10 minutes ago

  Soft PPI, Apple at a fresh high, chips sold. Indexes closed green. The split is the real story. $SPX finished +0.38% at 7572. Nasdaq led. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft all punched higher. BlackRock crushed on earnings and AUM. PayPal exploded on the Stripe/Advent bid talk. Micron got hit hard, semis rolled after the early ASML lift. Soft wholesale prices and the inflation-peak chatter gave the big names the bid while the rest of tech took profit. That dispersion is what most retail desks misread on the train home. Trap it triggers right now: the index looks clean so the day feels earned. You bank the runners early for the hit of relief, then hang onto or average the laggards because “they’ll catch up.” Disposition effect — risk-averse in the green, risk-seeking in the red. Losses register twice as heavy, so you defer the pain. The equity curve of that habit is the slow grind up and the elevator later. Market’s closed. Your review isn’t. DJ already saw the live trade cards and the fills. It scores the behavioral calls it made on you against what actually printed — early exits on the winners, size on the names that weren’t working — then updates your TraderProfile with the instrument fingerprint and the leak flags. Counterfactual ledger puts a currency number on any rule you ignored. No cheerleading. Just the record.

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  Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) reported 10 minutes ago

  Elon Musk is no Albert Einstein. Einstein published papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, special relativity, and E=mc². His general theory of relativity revolutionized physics. His works paved the way for GPS, smartphones, solar energy and nuclear power. Einstein was a vocal advocate for civil rights, education, and global peace. Musk built PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI. But Musk is not an advocate for anything that would benefit the world. Instead, Musk highlights the need to avoid too much empathy. Musk raises the alarm regularly about low fertility. Despite the low fertility, albeit mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, Musk claims humans have to expand to Mars. In Musk's best known foray outside his companies, he headed up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE shut down USAID, established by JFK in 1961. Before being shut down, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldwide. Elon Musk said "USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair,” He later posted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” A peer reviewed study in the Lancet provided a thorough counterfactual study of the impact of USAID over the preceding 21 years and a "what if" study examining the impact of shutdown to 2030. This finding indicates that 91,839,663 all-age deaths, including 30,391,980 in children younger than 5 years, were prevented by USAID funding over the 21-year study period. Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14,051,750 additional all-age deaths, including 4,537,157 in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030. That's 2.34 times the 6,000,000 deaths in the Holocaust.

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  Bohdan | Gamma Prime (@B_GammaPrime) reported 10 minutes ago

  In 2010, two Irish brothers founded Stripe to build what PayPal should have been. Yesterday, Stripe offered $53 billion to buy PayPal itself. Together with Advent International, Stripe tabled $60.50 per share - a 28% premium. PayPal jumped 19% on the news. The board hasn't answered yet. Sit with the numbers for a second. In July 2021, PayPal was worth $360 billion. It was the undisputed king of online payments - the company that built the category, the alumni network that produced Musk, Thiel, and half of Silicon Valley's founding class. The "PayPal mafia" became shorthand for tech royalty. This year, its market value touched $36 billion. Ninety percent - gone in under five years. Not because payments shrank. Payments exploded. PayPal lost the decade to faster checkout flows, embedded finance, and a developer-first competitor that simply out-built it. In February, PayPal's market value fell below eBay's - the company it was spun out of in 2015. The child became worth less than the parent it outgrew. And now the offer on the table is $53 billion. Roughly 15 cents on the peak dollar. Here's what makes this bid remarkable beyond the symbolism. Stripe never went public. While PayPal spent a decade being repriced, quarter by quarter, by a market that punished every stumble, Stripe stayed private, took the long view, and compounded quietly. Now the private challenger - teamed with private equity - proposes to take the public pioneer off the market entirely. If that playbook sounds familiar, it should. It's Dell, 2013: a fallen public giant, a buyer convinced the problems are fixable away from the quarterly spotlight, and shareholders being offered a premium to today's price that is also a fraction of yesterday's. Dell's take-private turned $1.8 billion into $15 billion. It's the most profitable tech buyout in history. Whether PayPal has a Dell inside it is the entire question. So if you're a PayPal shareholder, here's your choice: $60.50 in cash - 28% above yesterday, 80% below 2021. Take the money, or bet the turnaround?

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  🏳️‍🌈 nøva •_• ⊬ 🌌 ⏭️ ALL POINTS EAST (@blurryjoong) reported 13 minutes ago

  almost couldnt make the purchase cause paypal claimed there was a login (MY LOGIN) from wherever ******** holabird is

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  Natan (@nataninvesting) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Rajesh32369175 As you can see in my post I find Transmedics and Procept more attractive, in particular considering that they went down since april while paypal went up

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  pop (@rockin_candies) reported 21 minutes ago

  @spectralcritter meanwhile DA points were always just 100 pts = $1, and you could transfer it to PayPal for a small fee (i think it was only another dollar usually) I never tried taking robux but it seems like way more trouble than its worth

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  Kris Patel 🇺🇸 (@KrisPatel99) reported 23 minutes ago

  $PYPL Road to $75-85/share The reason why PayPal is likely going to be asking for a higher premium is from Stripe is because its so undervalued even at todays prices because of its enormous FCF and user reach. Paypal has been discounted by the market because of potential disruption risk in its largest high margin segment, Branded Checkout. But they do have other business lines that are growing at a much faster pace but with lower margins. This means that Paypal overall growth was slowing but not dead. The market focused too much on branded checkout and ignored the other parts of the business that have a lot of value in the hands of a company like Stripe. Stripe is currently valued at almost 160B with gross revenue of about 20B. Not sure what margins they are currently getting but by adding PayPal, they are essentially rationalizing their high growth prospect with instant boost to profitability. This would mean that when they IPO, they will be valued at high profitable growth compounder and comand a significant enterprise value. This is why they were able to get financing from Advant. They can essentially buy the company using short term cash and sell shares at huge mark up during IPO and pay the money while retaining the massive cashflow. They can also strip redundant costs and actually boost FCF by $1B to $2B depending on the level of cuts they are willing to make. Another 1B to 2B from organic growth over the next 5 years and the payoff period could be compressed down to 3-4 years. PayPal is worth at least $75-85 for Stripe. I wonder if another competitor might show up and realize the same thing and try to juice up the bid because it might put them at a disadvantage with the beast that the new Stripe + Paypal would become.

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  𝒢𝑜𝒹𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒥𝒶𝒹𝑒 ♔ (@PAYMEjadex) reported 26 minutes ago

  it’s 2026, why are people still leaving notes on paypal sends when it can get your account shut down?? three notes left on sends over there already this week, pls stop

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  Kingsley Okeze (Igwe) (@KingsleyTheDev) reported 27 minutes ago

  Stripe offering to buy Paypal is the craziest thing I've heard in a while. Apart from it being a startup trying to by a legacy tech, but one of the reason Stripe started was to fix an issue Paypal created.

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  BurntCrowStudios (@BurntCrowComics) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MollyBuvoCia I think the biggest problem with BTC is the network. If you could just scan your phone like apple pay or paypal, BTC would be used by everyone

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  Laguna Computer (@LagunaComputer) reported 34 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal For those interested here was the resolution after talking to Chat. They said it was an internal Zettle glitch that they are trying to resolve. But they don’t know when, so they will add my case to that ticket. So, no there is no resolution currently.

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  apollo440 (@0xApollo440) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Booster7860 @stripe @PayPal Not speculation, relief. Market's been waiting for someone else to fix it.

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  President jamil (@jamil_fa) reported 38 minutes ago

  @gurgavin How much does PayPal worth guys realize its down market

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  𝚎𝚟 🃏︎ (@ehvihn) reported 42 minutes ago

  @True_Undead i can set up stripe on ko-fi which could alleviate the bulk of the issue since it won’t be wired thru paypal

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  Hakuryu (@Hakuryu1984) reported 43 minutes ago

  @gomipomi I’ve heard about that. I think it has to do with artists who make NSFW comms and PayPal attempting to crack down on it.

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  Willow (@Dizzy_Slime) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Nopelol_Article @RickyWinsKO @moyugii You can still issue an unauthorized charge. And report the account for that as its breaking ToS of paypal as a service. Its tax evasion.

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  𝚛𝚎𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖 (@FennecCherry) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Ferg_Ea both of my legs are broken help me ferg paypal me 5 dollars for hopital

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  Prof (Private) (@TheProFInvests1) reported 46 minutes ago

  PayPal is up 30% off the lows. This is great for bag holders. But nobody… and I mean nobody… should be doing victory laps. If your average is $120 and the stock is trading at $60, you’re still down 50%. A message for the “I told you so” gang.

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  Matt (@_M98H) reported 49 minutes ago

  @RobertGreville @PBSTUK Must be an iOS issue iPhone never works for pre orders for me or my mates because of payment issue, regular drops are fine as you can use PayPal and Apple Pay but not pre orders, only Samsung works for me for for new items

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  Erin Thomas (@ThomasErin19778) reported 50 minutes ago

  I want to Renew my service mate, send me username and password for login the service, and how much the price mate now I want this service for life time, can I send the payment through 🏦🏦 or PayPal?

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  Mike Ganian (@MikeGanian) reported 55 minutes ago

  Despite PayPal’s strength in consumer recognition, its forward signals in checkout buttons are declining. Its rate of evaluations declined between 2H25 and 1H26 (though still remained above the average), while rates of churn rose to above the average. Negative commentary from organizations centers on high fees and a poor consumer experience, with the latter concentrated in merchants who have yet to upgrade to PayPal’s latest checkout architecture: --> “We’re moving away from PayPal. The way they presented the link almost wanted a customer to sign up for PayPal. If a customer chose to pay with PayPal, they were directed down a user journey that wanted them to sign up, and that's not what they wanted.” --> “The decision to decrease spend on PayPal is not just due to their high interchange fee. It's more about the conversion leak. Our data shows us that 10% of users drop off during the redirection when they click PayPal.” Stripe’s success with PayPal will hinge on accelerating biometric/passkey enrollment among consumers and merchant-side upgrades to the latest checkout experience.

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  DsL_a ʚїɞ ® (@_DeejustDee) reported 56 minutes ago

  Were too terrible fr Outlier banned us, we cried PayPal took off, we complained Now it’s Temu… imagine if this was your business. If you see anyone involved in such act, report their accounts immediately. Very soon they’ll remove you all from their platform again and another outburst will occur. Terrible humans a lot of us are out here

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  STOR Institute | Finance Made Simple (@STOR_Institute) reported 56 minutes ago

  Corporate Finance doesn’t have to be confusing. Follow @STOR_Institute and we’ll keep breaking it down exactly like this. What do you think👇? Attractive premium for PayPal shareholders, or just the opening bid?

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  Aya (@Aya_Research) reported 58 minutes ago

  US indices all closed green last night, but same as ever, the calm tape hid a split market. the hottest name was PayPal: a reported ~$53B takeover bid from Stripe + Advent ($60.50/share) sent it +17% on record volume. the twist everyone's pointing at: "the real prize is Venmo." the coldest corner was AI hardware. Dell led down -9.8% (touched -14% intraday), and SanDisk, Micron, HPE, Supermicro and AAOI (-13%) all got dumped with it. but the selling stayed concentrated in high-beta AI hardware, and mega-caps like Apple and Google masked it, so the Nasdaq still closed green. and the extreme end: Lucid ripped +29% after denying a report it was weighing going private or Chapter 11. Hong Kong ran hot too, Hang Seng +1.4%, Tencent +3.9%, Meituan +5.3%. bottom line: the index looks calm, but underneath the money's swapping seats fast, some chasing buyout targets, some fleeing AI hardware, some betting on a distressed bounce.