Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

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

• Sign in (44%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Beaufort	Sign in	6 hours ago
Lyon	Website Down	10 hours ago
Hildesheim	Sign in	10 hours ago
Châteauroux	Website Down	2 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	4 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  WallStreet2Web3 (@WallStreet2Web3) reported 7 minutes ago

  PayPal Slumps After Buyout Talks Collapse: What Just Happened & Why It Matters PayPal just lost its lifeline — and the stock got obliterated. Stripe and Advent International walked away from a $53 billion buyout. The stock crashed 12-17% in a single session, from $62 to $52. JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley had committed the money. Now it's dead. What Actually Happened In July, Stripe and Advent offered $60.50 per share — a 28% premium. PayPal's board wanted $70. The deal died. Talks revived in mid-August. Then on August 27, Bloomberg dropped the bomb: collapsed for good. The stock went from $62 to $50.98 in pre-market. A $10 billion wipeout before breakfast. Why They Walked Away - Price gap: PayPal wanted $70, buyers offered $60.50. Too far apart. - Regulatory risk: A combined Stripe-PayPal would process $3.7 trillion annually. The FTC and EU would force divestitures of Braintree or Venmo. Why the Market Crushed the Stock PayPal's entire rally this quarter was built on deal hope. The stock was up 40%+ since June. Not because earnings were great — because investors thought Stripe would rescue them. Now? The rescue is gone. And PayPal has to face ugly reality: - Revenue growing just 4% - Active accounts flat at 439 million - The "PayPal button" moat eroding as Apple Pay and Google Pay take over The stock fell back to pre-rumor levels. All the deal premium? Evaporated. What PayPal Actually Is Today - Market cap: ~$52 billion (was $360 billion in 2021) - Revenue: $33.2 billion, growing 4% - Free cash flow: $6.4 billion - Stock: From $300+ in 2021 to $52 today This is a company that prints cash but can't grow. It processes nearly $2 trillion in payments but trades at 8-10x earnings. The market sees terminal decline. The Fintech Valuation Warning Stripe is worth $159 billion private. PayPal is $52 billion public. Yet PayPal processes similar volume and generates $6 billion in free cash flow. The difference? Stripe is growing. PayPal is not. Investors pay 50x revenue for growth. They pay 8x earnings for stagnation. PayPal is the latter. If the original fintech giant trades like a utility, what does that mean for every other fintech unicorn? What Investors Should Watch 1. Don't chase M&A rumors — PayPal rallied 40% on deal hope, gave it all back in a day. 2. Fintech ETFs are risky — ARKF, FINX hold PayPal. When the bellwether collapses, the whole basket suffers. 3. Indian fintech fundraising gets harder — Paytm, PhonePe, Razorpay watch this closely. If PayPal trades at 8x earnings, why should Indian fintechs trade at 30x? Bottom Line PayPal went from "takeover target" to "turnaround story" overnight. The $53 billion bid proved it has value. The collapse proved that value isn't enough. For 20 years, PayPal was the king of online payments. Today, it's a $52 billion company fighting for relevance. When your best hope is getting acquired and even that fails, you have a problem. The fintech graveyard is full of companies that were once "too big to fail." PayPal isn't there yet. But it's walking in that direction. Is PayPal a value trap at $52, or a genuine bargain? Drop your take below 👇 Follow @WallStreet2Web3 for more clear market analysis. DYOR!

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  SpiritualHealing (@passwort987) reported 7 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 @flexfree27 Why its not the same? Before I deleted my account on this datacollecting App I just used browser without problems. The difference is browser is more private and more anonymity. Paypal is ****, they refused me giving a (full) data copy on DSGVO standards. Everyone should delete

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  Mrletshavefun (@Mrletshave48443) reported 8 minutes ago

  @hannahlouubabes Can I just Venmo or PayPal you and not make an account? I’m so down to play!

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  🕳️ VOIDTALK 🕳️ (@_crtt10) reported 10 minutes ago

  @mftopboy People weh chop paypal glitch last week deh look you dey laugh

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  Ringside (@Ringside_Daily) reported 11 minutes ago

  PayPal is down 11.60% to $54.34 after Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit. The group had offered $60.50 a share in mid-July, valuing PayPal north of $50 billion. The board considered that price inadequate. The stock now trades about 10% below the bid it turned down.

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  Adel (@adelpheee69) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ichi_dokusha Hello! I can't DM you but I missed first payment bc my PayPal got hacked and I've been trying to fix it. I'm happy to pay through kofi tho if fatson is still available 😭

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  Glerf (@real_oriox) reported 14 minutes ago

  @OpieRadio I suppose you will take down all the paypal links from your streams?

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  SignalVoyager (@signalvoyager) reported 15 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Eww. @PayPal is disgusting. I would consider it a feature of graphene OS to have it crashed everytime it opens. Plus, @GrapheneOS is busy doing better things. I hope they won't fix this.

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 18 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  bottomsniper (@ddw88523) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Neogun5 @Ibarragan19 I thought the same about PayPal. Then it went down more from 60 to 38

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  Value Investor (@ValueInvestShow) reported 23 minutes ago

  $PYPL down as much as 12% Because the largest buyout attempt in fintech history just fell apart. Advent and Stripe had offered $60.50/share, valuing PayPal above $53B. PayPal's board called it inadequate and flagged regulatory and financing hurdles. The stock had run up for weeks purely on takeover odds and now? That premium is now unwinding in real time. Should $PYPL 's management accepted the offer? What's your take Paypal shareholders?

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 24 minutes ago

  Einstein never made a dollar from relativity. The Wright brothers flew the first plane and died broke. Every railroad baron who connected a continent went bankrupt. They created everything. They captured nothing. Google made $50,000,000,000 in one year selling search. Airlines moved 800,000,000 passengers and made approximately zero profit across their entire 100-year history. One is more important to civilization. The other is worth four times more. Peter Thiel spent one Stanford lecture explaining why - and why most people have it completely backwards. This is Stanford, How to Start a Startup. He called it Competition is for Losers. He opens with one formula: value created times percent captured. X times Y. The mistake everyone makes is thinking X and Y move together. Then the lies. Monopolies pretend they are not monopolies - Google calls itself an advertising company. 3.5% of a $500,000,000,000 market. Not a monopoly - just a minnow in an ocean. Startups with nothing unique do the opposite. They call themselves the only British restaurant in Palo Alto. Then the small market rule. Amazon started as a bookstore. PayPal started with 20,000 eBay power sellers. Facebook started with 10,000 people at Harvard - 0 to 60% market share in 10 days. Everyone called these markets too small to matter. That was the point. Then last mover. 75% of a tech company's value comes from cash flows after year 10. First mover gets a one-third **** advantage. Last mover wins the game. The question is never who got there first. The question is who stays. Then the personal story. Thiel graduated Stanford, got a job at a top New York firm everyone wanted to enter and everyone wanted to leave. Left after 7 months and 3 days. A colleague told him: it's reassuring to see you leave. I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz. All you had to do was walk out the front door. Watch the moment he redefines loser. We think losers are people who can't compete. He argues the real losers are the ones who compete hardest - in markets so crowded that winning means capturing nothing. A founder I know replayed this before turning down a Series A that wanted him to go after a larger market. Said it was the first time saying no to money felt like strategy rather than fear. Free on YouTube, Stanford. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every crowded market you see will feel like a sign someone already lost

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  Upsideonly (@OwnYourAttntion) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TheLongInvest The problem with PayPal is that it is a s*** company.

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  Rahasya (@sw_rahasya) reported 28 minutes ago

  @goddek @RepThomasMassie @mandyarthur A bit of a bummer for me that paypal locked me out of my account because I cant produce 3 month-old documentation for services on land that gets absolutely no services … not sure how to fix that 🤔

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 31 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Lightning News (@LightningNewsX) reported 38 minutes ago

  Bitcoin’s payment history is full of moments that look completely unhinged in hindsight. Here are five of the wildest historic examples of it actually being used to buy real things. 1. Two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 BTC (May 22, 2010) 
Programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted on Bitcointalk offering 10,000 bitcoin for two large pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant took him up on it, ordered from Papa John’s, and delivered them. At the time the coins were worth roughly $41. That single transaction is widely recognized as the first real-world commercial purchase with Bitcoin. Hanyecz kept the offer open for months and later said he spent tens of thousands more BTC on pizza that year. Those original 10,000 coins are now worth well over a billion dollars. Bitcoin Pizza Day is still celebrated every May 22. 2. Alpaca wool socks for 75 BTC a pair (February 2011) 
A small family farm in Haydenville, Massachusetts—Grass Hill Alpacas—became one of the first merchants to accept Bitcoin after the owner’s son convinced his parents. They charged 75 BTC per pair of socks (Bitcoin was still under a dollar). Orders came in from around the world; even lead developer Gavin Andresen bought some. Within months the price of Bitcoin rose so fast they slashed the sock price to 5 BTC. Those original 75-BTC pairs would later be worth millions. The humble alpaca became an unofficial early Bitcoin mascot. 3. Crossing the United States living only on Bitcoin (April–June 2011) 
A Bitcoiner known as Plato (TheRealPlato) drove from Connecticut to California without spending a single U.S. dollar. Bitcoin was around $1–$2 and almost no businesses accepted it. He relied on forum members, in-person trades, and people willing to buy him gas or food and accept BTC in return. He documented the trip on a blog and Twitter using the hashtag #BitcoinRoadTrip. It was one of the earliest real-world tests of whether Bitcoin could function as actual money when almost nobody treated it that way. 4. WikiLeaks surviving a financial blockade with Bitcoin donations (June 2011) 
After WikiLeaks published classified U.S. diplomatic cables, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and others cut off donations, wiping out an estimated 95% of its revenue. The organization started accepting Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto publicly warned that the attention could be dangerous for the still-tiny network (“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest”). Donations still flowed—more than 4,000 BTC over the following years. It became one of the first high-profile demonstrations that Bitcoin could work as censorship-resistant money when traditional payment rails were shut down. 5. A Hawaiian flight attendant buys a ticket to space with 350 BTC (November 2013) 
Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic would accept Bitcoin for its $250,000 suborbital flights. The first customer was a flight attendant from Hawaii who paid the full fare in bitcoin—about 350 BTC at the time. Branson converted the coins to dollars immediately to lock in the price. It was the first known purchase of a spaceflight ticket with cryptocurrency and a surreal snapshot of how quickly some early holders were willing to spend their coins on once-in-a-lifetime experiences. These were creative, small-scale, often improvised payments that happened when Bitcoin was still a curiosity. But the important thing is this: the payments settled on an immutable ledger that’s verified by the public and no intermediary was required.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 40 minutes ago

  @leccverst they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  Oliver (@Mrz_PayDaylgfm) reported 40 minutes ago

  $PYPL Stripe and Advent Abandon PayPal Acquisition Bid: The parties reportedly terminated the proposed acquisition deal, which was valued at approximately $53 billion (or $60.50 per share). Key points of disagreement included valuation and potential regulatory risks. Pre-market Stock Plunge (Down ~12%–15%): A portion of the stock's previous gains was driven by the potential acquisition premium; with the deal off the table, that "M&A premium" has rapidly evaporated. Fundamentals Remain Solid: PayPal reported Q2 revenue of approximately $8.68 billion (up ~5% year-over-year) and adjusted EPS of $1.38, while also raising its full-year profit guidance. New CEO Driving Cost Cuts and AI Transformation: Enrique Lores plans to boost efficiency through AI integration and business restructuring, targeting at least $1.5 billion in annualized cost savings over the next 2–3 years. Key Short-Term Risk: With acquisition hopes gone, PYPL must now prove its growth potential based on its own performance while facing competition from rivals like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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  Saanjana Nikita (@Saanjana_Nikita) reported 43 minutes ago

  PayPal just dropped 18% pre-market Stripe and Advent walked away from the $50B+ buyout, according to bloomberg and honestly, this hurts because a lot of PayPal’s 40% rally this quarter was driven by takeover hopes, not some massive turnaround in the business WSJ reported that PayPal thought the first offer was too low and pushed for more. they held out for a better deal and ended up with nothing. that’s the risk with saying no in M&A. now the market cap is around $52.6B, basically where the offer was. except there’s no buyer left to support that valuation. the old problems are still there too. PayPal was way ahead in digital payments, but Apple, alphabet and others have been slowly eating into that lead this isn’t really about PayPal suddenly getting worse today. it’s the market realizing the bailout deal isn’t coming.

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  3dot (@3dotfunds) reported 45 minutes ago

  Advent and Stripe walked away from $PYPL PayPal today. The biggest fintech take-private ever attempted... $60.50 a share, roughly $53 billion... died over price: the board rejected it in July, the talks for more went nowhere, and per Bloomberg the consortium moved on. PYPL closed down 12.7% at $53.66, a $45.9 billion market cap. Two things stand out. First, the stock is still well above the $38 area it traded at in February before the bid interest surfaced. The market didn't delete the takeover story today; it cut the strike. If the buyers return... Bloomberg says they could... the next number starts lower, in a market pricing 59% odds of a September hike. Second, look at what Stripe bought instead this month... OpenRouter, an AI model-routing startup, for a reported $7 billion-plus. Between a payments giant at 11x earnings and AI infrastructure, the capital picked the infrastructure. That is pretty much the whole 2026 tape in one decision. Standalone case for the bulls... ~10x earnings, $6B of annual free cash flow, buybacks running. The board is betting the turnaround beats the bid. As of tonight it's $7 billion behind.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 45 minutes ago

  @ifwewerenothing they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  🔍⍤⃝🔎✩‧₊*:･⟭⟬ꪑꫀᧁꪖ ᦓꪻ᥅꠸ꪀᧁ᥇ꫀꪖꪀ⁷⟬⟭･:*₊‧✩🔍⍤⃝🔎 (@MegaStringbean) reported 51 minutes ago

  @timetobe_brave Just use PayPal... if someone refuses to use it that's your #1 sign its a scam. And if they use PayPal but scam you, PayPal will fix it.

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  srwhite (COMMS OPEN) (@Srwhiteoficial) reported 52 minutes ago

  okkk i have some problems with my paypal soo...

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  Elprez365 👽 (@elprez365) reported 53 minutes ago

  @BestBallJunkie @Underdog I used paypal this morning no issues

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Realnaz_ @JKeagz enterprise pivot to v3 and epaa membership alongside mastercard and paypal happened 24 days ago. that is real partnership traction and a product direction change toward bigger customers. but price is down 25% over 7 days and 19% over 30 days on 15m mcap. developments are not translating to buying pressure yet.

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  Jonas Gruber (@jonasgruber_) reported 59 minutes ago

  52 followers 7 days ago. 1,100+ today. Wild. Thanks to every single one of you. let me quickly introduce myself: In 2019 I was bored out of my mind at university. Took me about one semester to realize the degree I was working towards would never get me where I actually wanted to be. Then YouTube recommended me a video: "How to make money with dropshipping" Boom. That was the opportunity I was looking for (I thought). So I went all in. Grinding day and night. 30k first month, tripled that the month after. I thought I cracked the code. Until > PayPal cases started rolling in lol. > Refunds left and right. > Problems with the supplier as well. Turns out I sucked at running the store. But heres the thing: While I was bad at every part of that business, there was one part I was actually good at. The ad account. Reading the data and making decisions other people didn't see were an option. So I asked around in my network whether I could run ads for them. Took some time but one guy finally said yes (forever thankful for you if you read this). And guess what: IT WORKED! Certainly not at today's level, but more than enough to establish a profitable marketing channel for him. In fact: He was so happy, he recommended me to another guy and one thing led to another. FAST FORWARD TO TODAY: I run a multi 7-figure full funnel Google Ads agency. We scale brands like Sodastream, Riedel and Music Store, plenty of stores starting from scratch on Google and everything in between. And after a few hundred accounts, the same pattern keeps showing up: ALMOST NOBODY IS LOSING MONEY BC THEIR ADS ARE BAD. But bc they're not doing the basics right at scale. After spending €50mio+ on Google I thought, "why not share all the lessons and insights about how to scale tf out of people's Google Ads." I share every single detail and not gate keep anything. Before, I thought this stuff was way too niche for X. But based on the DMs I've received, apparently not. So welcome on my X account brother. Follow along for more ecom nerd stuff that makes you more money. 🫶🏼

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  Abdulrahman (@Aldahhas_) reported 1 hour ago

  🚨 PAYPAL $PYPL IS GETTING CRUSHED: Shares are down ~13% after reports that Stripe and Advent abandoned their pursuit of PayPal. • Proposed offer: $60.50/share • Implied valuation: ~$53B • PayPal reportedly viewed the offer as too low The key now: the M&A premium is disappearing, forcing investors to value PayPal on its standalone turnaround. $PYPL

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  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 1 hour ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

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  cukinia (@wetfatrat) reported 1 hour ago

  @0KULTRA__ unfortunately these are closed for now because of paypal issues </3

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  Bill |-/ semi hiatus era (@hyxnbi) reported 1 hour ago

  my new paypal account got blocked again omggggg what’s their problem