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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Oluwarotimi Ilori (@OluwarotimiIlo1) reported 3 minutes ago

  @SoccerScientis hello mate, cant get your the name on my paypal account and this link said error.....ilori from UK

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  Usama Razzaq (@usamaa2326) reported 3 minutes ago

  Is there any issue @RedotPay card? PayPal not spotting card. #paypal #redotpay

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  John - that’s all (@thedizzle28) reported 5 minutes ago

  @NovaScotiaa3dh @MikhailaFuller @PayPal oh again, i get it. the problem i have is two fold, 1) paypal is wrong to withhold the funds 2)why are they raising money when they can self fund? they can afford this study on their own, if $70k is going to break the back of the study, they never had a chance

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  업사이드 (@upsidekr) reported 6 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal My fully verified US LLC account (Ref: PP-L-835645498456) was permanently banned immediately after submitting 100% legitimate IRS & State documents. Chat agents confirmed the docs were perfect. This automated ban is unacceptable. Fix this immediately.

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  Cristi Cotovan (@graphicious) reported 11 minutes ago

  Every time I do my tax, I get reminded how incredibly idiotic the @PayPal reporting interface is... I'm actively moving everything away from sending money or receiving money with PayPal because it is just... absolutely terrible. I have no words. Not only are the reports convoluted, badly structured, filters are useless, filters don't work, they refuse to validate, they are inconsistent, date formats are sometimes US-formatted, other times UK-formatted. Oh, and they log you out of your session like after a few seconds... The classic case of: we built something but we're not actually using it ourselves. Who approved this? And yes, it's been stupid like this for years.

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  Varuni Khosla (@VaruniKhosla) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I have tried. It’s not working

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  Walik Goshorn (@waliik1) reported 18 minutes ago

  My @PayPal account was hacked. The evidence that they have clearly shows that it was not me. Theu continue to give me problems. They denied my claim amd now want to re-open it so that I jave to wait again. Its always a PROBLEM !!

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  Fintech Takes (@FintechTakes) reported 20 minutes ago

  The DOJ just settled a fair lending case against PayPal. There's one problem: no loans were ever made. PayPal's Economic Opportunity Fund, launched in 2020, directed capital to minority depository institutions, CDFIs, and minority-led VC funds. It issued grants to Black-owned small businesses. It funded nonprofit partners. None of it was lending. And yet the DOJ opened a fair lending investigation under ECOA, a law that governs credit discrimination. PayPal settled anyway. The terms aren't punitive - the company agreed to launch a small business initiative focused on veteran-owned businesses and those in farming, manufacturing, and technology. The original fund had already been wound down. Alex's read: PayPal probably made a calculated decision. The company has an ILC charter application pending with the FDIC, and staying in the administration's good graces has real business value. But the legal logic here is paper-thin, and the precedent it sets is worth paying attention to.

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  buildwithjay (@shipwithjay) reported 21 minutes ago

  @athcanft I’ve had offers go through till escrow stage (no PayPal at high enough valuation) and people drop out and disappear before payment. ID verified no issue

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  Apollonighter Luvin' (@heavenblitzer) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PlayStation @PlayStation you guys are screwing with my PayPal payments, what the hell does invalid error mean Freaking fix it

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  Esco Obong (@escobyte) reported 27 minutes ago

  What do Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Twitter, Shopify, Slack, and PayPal have in common? They all started as monoliths and relied heavily on monoliths for years after becoming unicorns. Do you actually have enough load on the system such that you need to scale the users service independently from the orders service? Can you not fit tens of millions of users, payments, products and orders in the same database cluster? Is your team so large that development velocity is an issue and you need seperately deployable services even when there’s no load scaling benefit just to alleviate operational scaling issues? The biggest benefit of a monolith is dead simple transactions. If your app does things like charging cards, updating inventory, or reserving cars/rooms, those actions need to succeed or fail all together. In a monolith, that’s easy: wrap them in a single database transaction. With microservices, you need distributed transactions or eventual consistency 💀. A saga pattern to coordinate failures and rollbacks across a chain of services. This is error prone, expensive infra, runs slower and takes months longer to develop/test. It also requires way more maintenance as the system evolves. It limits your velocity when introducing new concepts and flows which startups often need to do quickly. Start with a monolith. Get speed and correctness by default. For special needs like real-time streams or heavy compute loads, you can justify adding another service if it actually needs different composition of CPU, memory or storage that can scale independently from everything else. Each microservice is supposed to exist to solve a specific scaling or operational pain point. Let the real bottlenecks shape your architecture.

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  Pipio🪶🎱 【IRIAM Pre-Debut】 (@PipioHato) reported 28 minutes ago

  @pwupcakie My biggest issue if streamelements goes down is that almost everything else uses PayPal for payouts of tips and I can't use PayPal so I dont know what alternative to use 🙃

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  ZahterBiyagil (@MagnumOpusSP) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Well, as I have tirelessly tried to explain in clear English that I cannot access paypal help or customer service because it has 2-step verification . First it sends a code to my email, that's accessible for me, but then asks me to proceed with a whatsapp message or an sms to that Italian host's telephone number, to which I have no access. It is impossible for me to reach your officials in this manner. I will contact unsolicited email but still my anxiety lingers about it. Can you please delete the account linked to my email immediately? Please reread my messages, try to understand it and solve this problem.

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  miauwwww (@miauwwwwdw) reported 31 minutes ago

  I am from Holland and I want a bigbang membership but Paypal is not working who is Gonne help me !! #bigbang

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  Ann O'Neill (@Ann_ONeill) reported 34 minutes ago

  I just discovered I am being charged by @Cerebrum_lQ for a service they are not providing. When I tried to cancel I was told I have no active account yet a charge went through @PayPal today. I expect an immediate refund. Sad that X has become a watchdog for these issues.