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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Aadarsh (@aadarsh_nagrath) reported 8 minutes ago

  @jonathan_wilke Can go with PayPal as last resort not smooth but works. i faced such issue with a service. paypal worked.

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  Matt Farley of Motern Media (@MoternMedia) reported 9 minutes ago

  @WorstMikeFrollo The other one is the Vimeo version (also available through PayPal/dropbox on my website now that Vimeo is shutting down on demand).

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  Nobody (@Nobuddy05) reported 15 minutes ago

  @art_jake @DotoDoya Put money onto your paypal account if you have one and use it for the transaction. Its weird but any issues with buying **** just immediately go away, seriously its helped me like 4 times now.

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  Annie Gets **** Done (@BijouConcierge) reported 17 minutes ago

  @amansaini_11 As long as your product solves their problem & is user friendly, they don't care about anything else. Easy & fast checkout is soooo important - I've left websites when the checkout is really complicated & doesn't offer PayPal or stripe!

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ima_fly_tok @alexabelonix That's the bigger issue IMO. Switching from PayPal to another giant provider doesn't really remove the dependency, it just changes who you're dependent on. Having more than one payment route makes a lot more sense.

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  sev (@d1zko) reported 22 minutes ago

  @evilsk8r evilsk8r Do you use paypal or stripe for your kofi i don't know which to use but i've heard paypal has Problems or something

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  Echo (@Echo_ingtr) reported 23 minutes ago

  I want to start open commission, but due to payment issues like the lack of PayPal in Türkiye, I'm looking for a community that values privacy, and VGen is the only one that suits my needs in Türkiye.If anyone has any extra code, could they give it to me? #VGencode #VGenartists

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  Jort van Meeteren (@jortvanmeeteren) reported 23 minutes ago

  @HeadspaceHelp Hi! I read that you’re having problems with Paypal in the EU at the moment, but I don’t have Visa, Mastercard or any of the other payment options. Are you planning to add iDeal/Wero or will I have to wait until the Paypal issue is resolved to be able to renew?

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  Vitaliy Sokolov (@askvitaliy_) reported 26 minutes ago

  @SMB_Attorney When I started in business, you had to put the card in that little manual knuckle-buster imprinter with the carbon paper. That meant the card was physically present. Back in the day, we made a photocopy of the customer's credit card and ID to verify they were actually there and check their face against the ID. People literally never disputed a charge unless their card was physically stolen, at which point they would call the bank, say they were robbed, and provide a police report. Where this all went wrong was with eBay and PayPal. Suddenly it became: "You didn't get the product" or "It's not what you expected," followed by endless disputes. That is where it all began. When it comes to smaller banks, if you send them evidence, they will actually read it. But with the top ten banks in the United States, the person reviewing your case is almost certainly overseas (like Chase having reps in the Philippines). Do you think they read it or care what you wrote? Customers claim they never received a product, so we submit the UPS label, tracking data, GPS coordinates, and the delivery photo showing the package dropped at their door. You still lose the dispute. Why? Because nobody actually reviews the evidence; they just decide at random. The entire credit card processing system is fundamentally broken, driven by two core issues: 1. Widespread customer abuse with zero accountability: Customers increasingly abuse chargebacks simply to avoid paying for items, especially high-value goods, because they know there are no consequences. Even when customers dispute a charge by accident (for example, mixing it up with other unrecognized charges) and promise via email to call their bank and fix it, they forget, and the merchant still loses. Furthermore, most businesses do not work with direct merchant acquirers; they use payment aggregators who do not fight chargebacks the same way a direct processor would. The banks simply do not care enough to fix this. 2. Outdated legacy infrastructure and evaluation: The evidence-collection and review processes are completely archaic. AI would make far better, fairer decisions analyzing dispute evidence than manual overseas reviewers. People often blame Visa or Mastercard, but chargeback decisions are made by the issuing banks. Payment processors love to label businesses as "high risk." We are not high-risk; the issue is simply that consumers buy items they do not want to pay for. If the industry had a centralized database tracking how many chargebacks an individual consumer files across cards, the "high-risk merchant" label wouldn't even need to exist, because verifying buyer legitimacy would be straightforward. Back in the day, merchant processors physically visited your business to inspect your operation and verify your inventory before giving you merchant access. Today, aggregators let anyone instantly open an account without even verifying their identity, enabling scammers to set up fake storefronts selling $50 iPhones. Then, two days later, they freeze legitimate accounts demanding identity verification out of nowhere. The entire model needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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  The Analyst X (@bullmetrics) reported 28 minutes ago

  PayPal is up nearly 50% in six months and still down 78% over five years. So the real question: is this the turnaround, or a bounce in a broken stock? Here's the actual setup: $PYPL sits in the middle of online payments. You check out, they move the money, they take a fee. PayPal and Venmo are both theirs. 🟢 What's driving it: - Buying from a shop you've never heard of? You don't type your card in, you hit the PayPal button — if it goes wrong, they chase it, not you. That trust is the product. - Shops can't remove that button. It turns browsers into buyers, so taking it off costs them sales. - Apple has your wallet but not the shop's checkout. Stripe has the shop but not your wallet. PayPal has both. - They're buying back 10.21% of the company a year — the fastest pace in their history. Fewer shares, bigger slice for investors. 🔴 Why it got this cheap: - On your phone, Apple Pay is already sitting there with your face. PayPal makes you log in. That one extra tap is the whole war. - They've always charged shops a premium for that button, and cheaper options now sit right next to it. - Revenue growth has slowed to low single digits and the profit engine has cooled. What do the pros think? Here it gets uncomfortable: 🔴Avg target: $57.26 — 7% below where it trades today 🚀High: $85.68 — +39% 🔴Low: $36.36 — −41% The verdict: you're not buying growth here, you're buying cash. At $61 you pay $11 for every $1 of profit — Visa and Mastercard cost three times that. The model says $75.36, Wall Street says $57.26, and that gap is the whole trade. The risk is the fee. If Apple and Google keep owning the checkout button, the cash machine slips with it. That's why the Low target sits at $36.36. Bargain or value trap?

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  Santiago Lavado (@LavadoSant57305) reported 29 minutes ago

  $NKE reminds me of $PYPL. PayPal was worth $306 in 2021; today it’s worth $61. Nike was worth $179; today it’s worth $39. Both lost nearly 80% of their value. Both made the same mistake. $PYPL believed its strength was its brand, when in reality, it was being the checkout button. Apple and Google took that away. $NIKE believed the exact same thing; it pulled out of retail stores to sell directly to consumers, and On, Hoka, and New Balance stepped in to fill the void. The difference lies in the valuation. PayPal is trading at 11 times earnings, while Nike is at 19. PayPal has already been punished by the market. Nike is still priced as if the problem were already solved. Nike isn't PayPal. Nike is PayPal three years ago.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 30 minutes ago

  @fallndleave hii ⭐ if you can't find a ga and you'd be interested in an upper bowl let me know! I have PayPal and I'd be down for a video call for proof :)

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 30 minutes ago

  Freelancers don't have a bookkeeping problem. They have a seven-source-of-income problem. Quillmark connects them all — bank, Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, and marketplace payouts — categorizes transactions, projects quarterly taxes, and sends a weekly P&L on autopilot. Live soon.

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 33 minutes ago

  @gmille24 @yElff_ @BookitWithTrent "Helpful" as in its easier to deposit into accounts, my bank gives me issues with doing it directly and have to occasionally do thru Venmo/PayPal. Much much easier

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  Designffective (@Designffective) reported 33 minutes ago

  @rohangotwal @stripe I had a call with them because I created my account 2 yrs ago for freelance but had documention issue so unfortunately switched to paypal. Recently logged in. Had a heated argument that my account was old and etc. But they couldn't help because of rbi regulations.