Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Independence	Sign in	5 hours ago
Rezé	Sign in	12 hours ago
Milan	Sign in	2 days ago
Hamburg	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Errors	3 days ago
Ciboure	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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  Otundo (@Otundo_) reported 1 minute ago

  @NickRTFM The issue with PayPal with Kenyans is they will suspend it. Any other method before I give you my prediction?

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  h (@one2tenlee) reported 2 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal hi! I’ve been receiving password recovery code even when I’m not requesting and when I tried logging in, it says “we’re having trouble making sure it’s you” what should i do?

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  Linda.s (@lyndatebg) reported 8 minutes ago

  The only alert I want to have 🚩 “You have broken the monthly tops in PayPal”

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  darkbluecat 😼🎧🌭 (@darkbluecat) reported 12 minutes ago

  Today’s long story: I was trying to buy sheet music for a song they had listed on a basic website, but the whole process has been such a pain. First, they make you fill out a form asking for your email address, which is fair, your country, which I guess is understandable, your city, which I filled in with bogus information, and your phone number, which I was obviously not going to disclose. Then, of course, they ask for your payment method, so I picked PayPal. The problem is that they manually send you the invoice or payment link within 24 hours. However, they also say you can message them on WhatsApp for a faster response. So I messaged them and asked them to send me the invoice. The person then TRIED TO PHONE CALL ME, and I was just like ?????? After that, he sent me a screenshot of my request. I replied, “Yes, that’s me,” even though the address and phone number were obviously bogus. Then he said something like, “Please fill out the form with the correct information.” MAN, IT’S A DIGITAL DELIVERY. WHY DO YOU NEED MY EXACT LOCATION AND PHONE NUMBER? AND WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME??? What ********.

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  Nyx || Vgen Com ✨OPEN✨ (@VakNsfw) reported 13 minutes ago

  @seiranaino I took an IT course and wasn't the great or best at it but this is usually normal to IT devs. From an IT perspective, this is actually one of the main reasons beta versions exist. A beta is an unfinished build released to a limited audience so developers can identify bugs, security issues, UI problems, and privacy concerns that aren't always discovered during internal testing. Sometimes certain backend data is temporarily exposed in the frontend because permission checks, role restrictions, or interface changes haven't been fully implemented yet. If users can currently see an email or PayPal email when they shouldn't, that's a valid issue and should absolutely be reported. But it's also the kind of thing developers expect beta testers to point out so it can be fixed before the official release. Finding a bug in a beta doesn't automatically mean the platform is poorly made or that the developers intend for it to stay that way. The important question is whether the developers acknowledge the issue and patch it promptly. So yes, it's a legitimate privacy concern—but it's also a normal part of the software development process. That's literally what beta testing is for finding problems before everyone starts using the final product. Of course regardless whether It's still on testing phase or not it's s valid criticism. What's not valid is bombarding a small group of devs with accusations and incorrect informations like what some people here on X did, Coding isn't easy and would toast your membrane if you can't understand a single computer language Give the devs a benefit of doubt because Vgen started small before as well, Plus the devs are very responsive when it comes to feedbacks I'll definitely wait for them to fix certain bugs before I start selling in their site so for now let them have their flow

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  TheDungeonDelver (@A_DungeonDelver) reported 15 minutes ago

  @RaltsAuthor You should. You don't know me except here and our occasional communication on YouTube, but I had a friend, a dear, wonderful friend whom I miss every day. His name was Eric and he was one of the programmers of Mechwarrior 2 from Activision back in the 1990s. Before GoFundMe, before anything much other than PayPal was a going concern, when I heard about his health problems - before I even really got to know him - I wanted to help. Because I'd gotten tons of fun out of MW2, and he seemed like a decent guy. He was working on a 3d terrain generator, procedural that is, that was based on what he'd done with 3d graphics in MW2 and at that time you had to sell something to get money on PayPal so we set up a donationware download point and put a PayPal button on it. It helped he and his wife get through a drought until SSDI kicked in. Open the GoFundMe. It's not begging; there's people who care about you, bet.

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  Bryan abraham (@bryanaat) reported 22 minutes ago

  @anthonynoto Saw your interview with CNBC . Do you hear yourself ? @anthonynoto “Stocks up 170% in the last 2 years “ Are you really proud of that ? Stock went from 4$ to 18$ in 6 years if you being CEO “Stock is reflective of macro environment “ “ $hood is up for the year “ “ $Dave is up for the year” Even PayPal is down less than Sofi for the year ! If one of your employees at $sofi underperformed for 6 straight years, what would you do @anthonynoto ? Keep them or fire them ? We all know the answer ! Fact is you have failed at your fiduciary duty to provide returns for your shareholders . Infact you do the opposite , dilute shareholders at every opportunity . If this was any other job , and the board wasn’t scared of your power to fire them , you would be gone ! #facts

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  Crystal Brown🇺🇸 (@justxcrystal777) reported 23 minutes ago

  Ms Ziles… you are doing witchcraft on people and killing people. I have physical proof because you are messing with my x account. You have hacked into my computer, deleted things from my QuickBooks account locked my PayPal account and you’re fake sitting on your pedestal… you are a failed CEO and you should spend more time at your company than you do ******* with my account. I am not the person to play with because I tell you what my extended family just had two bouts of cancer. Another can can’t get their career off the ground. They’re constantly being drained and they’re constantly being targeted so I suggest you sit ******** down and shut ******** up and that’s final. Focus on your children, your company and your career because if you don’t, I will take all of it. I am not the person that needs to be humbled. I have laid low for 44 years.

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  MPH (@0x_MPH) reported 24 minutes ago

  I believe the SaaSpocalypse will be proven to be overblown. @michaeljburry knows this. Though I believe his "AI bubble" call is too early, I happen to agree with some of his other calls. One of which is an extremely undervalued and beaten down stock I feel could outperform: $PYPL PayPal Bullish Thesis: Valuation is cheap by almost any measure: PYPL trades around $46 (down ~40% over the past year, off a 52-week high of $79.50), with a market cap near $40B. The trailing P/E is roughly 8x — a value-stock multiple for a company with 20%+ ROE — and the forward P/E sits near 8x as well. EV/EBITDA is around 6x and free cash flow yield is well into double digits. Burry himself has flagged PayPal as trading at ~8x earnings while generating strong buyback-fueled capital returns. Revenue and growth: Q1 2026 revenue came in at $8.35B, up ~7% YoY and beating estimates by nearly 4%. Total Payment Volume hit $464B, up 11% YoY. Branded checkout — long the bear case — actually accelerated to 2% currency-neutral growth from 1% the prior quarter, and PSP (merchant) volume growth accelerated to 11%. Debit card and tap-to-pay volume rose 60% YoY, and Buy Now Pay Later TPV grew 23%. Venmo — the hidden asset: Venmo TPV growth accelerated to 14% YoY, its sixth straight quarter of double-digit growth, with "Pay with Venmo" TPV up 34%. Management has now split Venmo into its own reporting segment under the new "Consumer Financial Services & Venmo" business line — a structural change that makes its standalone value visible for the first time and opens the door to a potential spin-off or strategic deal, something the market has speculated could unlock real value. PayPal Ads — a new, high-margin growth lever: PayPal launched "Curated Ads" in April 2026, a data-driven ad network that ties ad impressions directly to verified purchase data rather than cookies — leveraging PayPal's enormous first-party transaction dataset. This is a nascent but potentially high-margin revenue stream layered on top of existing payment volume, similar to how Amazon turned its retail data into a multibillion-dollar ads business. Balance sheet and capital returns: As of Q1 2026: $13.5B in cash/investments against $11.6B in debt — a solid net cash-ish position for a company generating $6B+ in annual free cash flow. On a trailing-12-month basis, PayPal returned $6B to shareholders via buybacks (reducing weighted average share count by roughly 7-8% YoY) and just initiated its first-ever quarterly dividend ($0.14/share). Management has reiterated a ~$6B buyback target for full-year 2026 against a market cap of only ~$40B — that's roughly 15% of the company being retired in a single year at depressed prices. New leadership and cost discipline: The board replaced CEO Alex Chriss with former HP CEO Enrique Lores (effective March 2026), pairing the transition with a ~20% workforce reduction, a $1.5B AI-driven cost-savings program over 2-3 years, and a wind-down of the PayPal Ventures arm (with Jefferies hired to explore secondary sales) — all aimed at sharpening focus on the core Checkout, Venmo, and Payment Services businesses. Michael Burry's stake Scion Asset Management disclosed a ~3.5% position in PayPal in April 2026 at around $49/share, calling it a top pick in his "software-payments" basket — ranking it ahead of Fiserv and Adobe on stock-based comp discipline. Burry has continued adding to the position through Q2, framing recent weakness as technical (private-credit/software-debt driven) rather than fundamental, and specifically citing management turnover as an "overhang" rather than a broken thesis — i.e., a catalyst still to play out, not a reason to avoid the stock. Separately, filings from SG Americas have fueled speculation of an activist investor building a stake. Key risks: guidance calls for a high-single-digit non-GAAP EPS decline in Q2 2026 and roughly flat transaction margin dollars for the full year; competition from Apple Pay, Stripe, and Block continues to compress branded checkout; there's an active shareholder class-action related to prior revenue-forecast disclosures; and the CEO transition itself is an execution risk, not just a catalyst. tl;dr $PYPL bull case: trading at ~8x earnings, $6B buyback/yr (~15% of market cap), new dividend, $13.5B cash vs $11.6B debt. Venmo TPV +14% YoY (accel. 6 straight qtrs), now its own segment. New Curated Ads business. New CEO cutting $1.5B in costs. Michael Burry built a 3.5% stake, calling it his top payments/software pick. Priced for pessimism, not for a cash machine.

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  Merchant Risk Desk (@MerchantRiskDsk) reported 25 minutes ago

  @supawatkaewma One dispute triggering full account closure even with evidence submitted shows the real risk of routing everything through a single processor's Connect layer, they own that decision entirely. Moving to whop just shifts you to a different aggregator with a similar structural risk, payout holds tied to internal reviews, no real appeal path. The more durable fix is decoupling your payment acceptance from any single platform's risk call. PaymentKit lets you run Stripe, PayPal and others in parallel with your own token vault, so one processor's dispute policy cannot end your ability to pay clients.

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  Lambert Van Sittert 🙂 (@lambert_vs) reported 27 minutes ago

  @FNBSA @SAJuniorRugby Fix your banking app issues instead of focusing on Rugby. Secure chat feature is no longer working and paypal withdrawals into FNB accounts are also no longer available via app or website.

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  SR (@buffalodadrogi) reported 31 minutes ago

  @RepJayapal Oh no, PayPal is upset. How about you show some true integrity for a change and issue a formal written apologize for you how acted in the recent Congressional Committee hearing with the Angel Families? Until you do, your fake outrage means nothing.

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  Crystal Brown🇺🇸 (@justxcrystal777) reported 32 minutes ago

  Ms Ziles… you are doing witchcraft on people and killing people. I have physical proof because you are messing with my x account. You have hacked into my computer, deleted things from my QuickBooks account locked my PayPal account and you’re fake sitting on your pedestal… you are a failed CEO and you should spend more time at your company than you do ******* with my account. I am not the person to play with because I tell you what my extended family just had two bouts of cancer. Another can can’t get their career off the ground. They’re constantly being drained and they’re constantly being targeted so I suggest you sit ******** down and shut ******** up and that’s final. Focus on your children, your company and your career because if you don’t, I will take all of it. I am not the person that needs to be humbled. I have laid low for 44 years. You are messing with people’s brains when you are the CEO of a company that deals with brains while running MK ultra on people… tread very carefully… you are a therapist on paper. It is not normal for people who are therapist and mess with people’s brains and have a company to try to destroy said company at the same time. You want to be by his side by all means I really don’t care. But you will stop targeting me. You will stop targeting my son. You guys like too much drama this is not billionaire behavior. You think this is royalty you want to steal the country at **** point you think this is royalty. You want to be a queen…. But this is your behavior. Absolutely not. The only stupid ***** in this conversation is you. Trying to break brains running MK ultra on people and thinking that that’s going to strengthen your brand. I am sick of this. I reverse engineered PTSD I am Meta conscious I did the work It is not normal for someone to Target you that is psychopathy especially when it’s a therapist who owns a brain company. Do you see where I’m going with this? Pull your crazy together and start acting like a lady

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  Maria Lynn (@MariaLynnElaine) reported 32 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal is PayPal business down ?

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  mbogo susan (@suzymbogo) reported 35 minutes ago

  @SafaricomPLC Hi is there an issue with withdrawing money from Paypal to mpesa through my oneapp? It goes on smoothly till the last step where it, glitches and then starts all over again. I can see other people complaining of same issue.

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  Uncle Instict - DM me for Narrator Noli Carry (@Uncle_Instict) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AerelisVA I cant donate due of Payment Option Issues 🗿 Why there's no Paypal Option

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  Slick Products (@slicklatex) reported 37 minutes ago

  Apologies if you've had trouble placing an order via PayPal the last few days - their wonderfully buggy WooCommerce plugin has once again broken my shop so is now disabled... card payments (or BACS) for now! 👀

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  Jenna bliss (@Jennabliss333) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Jayecane and let me guess you want to send it as a check cause your cash app, venmo and PayPal got shut down. or you want to send it cash up buy it costs a little bit on our end before you can send anything.

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  Greatest Good Tarot (@GreatestGoodTar) reported 38 minutes ago

  🧵1/3 PayPal works 98% of the time - but when it screws up, it royally screws up! I changed my bank, & forgot to update PayPal. Totally my fault. That lead to my account being -£28. No problem, I’ll just pay from new bank. Nope. @PayPal for some reason refuses to take the money

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  ⛸️ (@icepirnce) reported 41 minutes ago

  is anyone else having issues with paypal on weverse shop???? i’ve been trying to pre order these albums all morning and it literally won’t let me

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  mohammed guellil (@mohammedguelli1) reported 43 minutes ago

  @athcanft With better scale, no inventory issue, no Paypal hold, better customer retention = Valhalla

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  XTENDED WARRENTY (@XT3ND3DW4RR3NTY) reported 44 minutes ago

  @metoprolel @Devastare @phreakery If ik something isn't right I atep upland say something and I provide visual proof not verbal. So take it how you like, but when I want proof of something I ask and if I dont get it then I move on to the next thing. Be mad idc anymore not anyone's dog or puppet amd im tired of all the drama and back amd forth **** skyler is my target of operation we have proof on him. That was some shady ****. If I help someone I dont ask for it in return and I dont report people on PayPal. We have a choice in life and im done with all this bs drama skyler is the issue

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  Or Sassur (@Orsassur2) reported 50 minutes ago

  @expressvpn To the ExpressVPN Team, I am writing this letter with profound disappointment and indignation. Your decision to permanently terminate my account treated me as though I were a fraudster, someone attempting to deceive your company. Nothing could be further from the truth. The issue did not originate from any dishonest act on my part. My credit card was unexpectedly canceled by my bank without prior notice. That unforeseen event triggered a chain reaction, ultimately leading to restrictions on my PayPal account. I refused to accept that injustice. I sought justice through the Brazilian courts. After the legal proceedings, I prevailed. The courts recognized my rights, and my PayPal account was restored. I also obtained a favorable judgment against the bank responsible for the wrongful cancellation of my credit card. These events demonstrate that I was not acting in bad faith. I was the victim of circumstances created by institutions whose mistakes caused unnecessary damage to my reputation and financial life. Yet ExpressVPN chose to judge me without understanding the facts. Instead of contacting me, requesting documentation, or allowing me to explain what had happened, your company erased my account as though I were nothing more than another criminal trying to abuse your services. That decision was unfair, disproportionate, and deeply disrespectful. For years, I believed that ExpressVPN stood for privacy, trust, and respect for its customers. Instead, when I needed fairness, I received condemnation without a hearing. Justice is not merely about enforcing rules; it is about distinguishing between intentional fraud and honest customers caught in circumstances beyond their control. You had every opportunity to investigate. You had every opportunity to ask for evidence. You had every opportunity to act with fairness. Instead, you chose the easiest path: permanent exclusion. Companies that pride themselves on protecting digital rights should never abandon the fundamental principle that every person deserves to be heard before being condemned. I do not ask for sympathy. I ask for justice. I ask that ExpressVPN conduct a genuine review of my case, examine the court decisions that restored my PayPal account, consider the legal outcome involving the bank, and recognize that the circumstances surrounding my payment issues were not the result of fraud, but of events that have already been examined through the legal system. A company earns respect not by refusing to correct a mistake, but by having the courage to acknowledge one. I sincerely hope ExpressVPN chooses fairness over assumptions and evidence over prejudice. I await your response. Respectfully,

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  Nonchalant (@Mr_Omene) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DjTaMeiL @PayPal @Venmo Bro is your crypto on venmo back on, i have been getting an error message for almost 2 months now

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  ØxNomad🌊 (@OxNomad24) reported 51 minutes ago

  @roqqupay @PayPal Please look into this issue immediately. The transaction shows as successful, but the funds have still not been credited to my account. I would appreciate it if this could be resolved as soon as possible.

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  Alex (@AlexWinfield13) reported 54 minutes ago

  AI Agents Don’t Need to Be On-Chain. Their Money Does. I don’t need to be “built on blockchain” to send someone USDC. I just need a wallet and a rail. Neither does an AI agent. That one sentence collapses most of the “crypto AI agent” narrative and it’s why the real alpha isn’t in agents at all. It’s in the payment rails built for them. Here’s the category error nearly everyone is making: they’re trying to make the agent crypto-native. On-chain reasoning, a token stapled to the bot, “autonomous economic actors” that supposedly live on a chain. But an agent’s intelligence runs off-chain on normal servers, using normal models. Nobody runs a model’s brain on a blockchain; it’s absurd and always will be. So when a project brands its agent as “on-chain,” it’s almost never adding a capability. It’s adding a token. The part of an agent that genuinely benefits from crypto is the money movement. And that part is already real. The receipts: •x402 Coinbase’s open protocol that revives the dormant HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code processed roughly 165M agent transactions and ~$50M in cumulative volume across ~69,000 active agents by April 2026. •The average agent payment is about $0.20 below the minimum fixed fee card networks charge per transaction. Read that twice. It’s an entire class of machine-to-machine commerce that Visa and Mastercard physically cannot serve. •x402 was donated to the Linux Foundation. Google’s AP2 authorization framework launched with 60+ partners including PayPal, Mastercard, Coinbase, and American Express. The settlement asset is overwhelmingly USDC, moving gaslessly via EIP-3009. That’s the tell. The rails are winning as neutral infrastructure open standards and stablecoins not as somebody’s agent token. And it’s early. Daily x402 volume is volatile, down sharply from its December 2025 peak as incentives and testing wash out. This is a first-inning signal, not a finished market. But the shape of the thing is unmistakable. Now the uncomfortable half, because I’m not here to shill: The “AI agent token” category is roughly $15B and mostly narrative. In Q1 2026, zero-usage tokens that slapped “AI agent” on themselves without a product got wiped out. Even the survivors carry the value-capture problem: Virtuals ships real product with real usage, but VIRTUAL holders receive no direct protocol revenue. ElizaOS owns developer mindshare, yet an open-source framework is brutally hard to convert into token value. Two names Virtuals and ai16z hold 57% of the entire category (according to Claude). That’s not a diversified sector. That’s a narrative propped up by two poles. So here’s the stance: The crypto belongs in the rails, not the agent. An agent doesn’t need to be on-chain to pay on-chain same as I don’t. The durable structure isn’t “crypto agent.” It’s any agent + crypto rails: ordinary software, running any model, hosted anywhere, plugging into a settlement layer that clears in seconds for a fraction of a cent, 24/7, worldwide. The test I run on every “crypto agent” pitch: delete the token and let it pay over open rails. Does anything about its function break? If not you’re buying a story, not a machine. Where I’d point attention instead: what settles and clears on these rails. The stablecoins agents actually pay in. The chains their transactions finalize on. The identity and authorization layers that keep autonomous spend safe at scale. That’s the picks and shovels of the agent economy and none of it requires pretending an agent is something it isn’t. Rails, not agents. That’s the alpha. Not Financial Advice.

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  apollo440 (@0xApollo440) reported 54 minutes ago

  PayPal spent 25 years building a payment empire on card rails it didn't own. Now PYUSD settles natively on @0xPolygon , no bridge required. For years the model was simple. Money moved slow, @PayPal sat in the middle, everyone paid the toll for the privilege of waiting. The delay is what kept the booth open. A native stablecoin flips who's standing at the tollbooth. Settlement in seconds, bridge tax gone. Paxos issues it under OCC oversight, so this isn't some offshore experiment running in the dark. No token pump, no manifesto about killing banks. Just PayPal quietly moving its dollars onto rails where settlement cost trends to zero. The boring layer wins. A company that got rich on slow money is now betting on fast money. Someone inside decided the float wasn't worth defending forever. Western Union should be taking notes. So should every bank still charging three days for a wire.

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  KIRA (Field Mutt) (@KiraMuttaro) reported 56 minutes ago

  @RossoVermil No, Kodiak says he canceled payments, PayPal returned the money due to StarCat’s account issues, and he needed it after losing his job. Without actual donation logs or proof it was kept for profit, and Kiwi made the call not him it’s not the smoking gun you’re making it.

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  Nurse Knock (@withgountess) reported 57 minutes ago

  *******, PayPal down on my end, can only do Cash App

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  Akashic Books (@AkashicBooks) reported 59 minutes ago

  @beatrainer @hearteyes4david hello! the site only takes paypal but you can email us at info at akashic books if you are having trouble.