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Paypal Grinds To A Halt
BillBrasky writes "After a 'Monthly Software Update', it appears that PayPal started having problems. There were reports all weekend of troubles, and as of Monday night here, I can't access it at all (connection time out). One user even reported that his PayPal Debit card was getting refused!" A message on the site now says the site is expected to be back at 8:10 PM PDT, not long from now.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Maybe not the smartest place to have put my life savings?
They have to deal with a slashdotting.
Yeah, so paypal.com is having issues loading. Makes sense to slashdot them too!
...most sites that rely on paypal (donations to stay up) don't really get donations anyways. Hard to bring a non-existant economic action to a halt ;-)
hehe I'm a silly goose.
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
This is Karma biting Paypal in the ass. Paypal, thanks for all of the overcharging and fee stacking ... bungholes.
I just got an email from them asking me to verify my account information and it was working just fine!
The ones that tell me I need to log in to my account because of the possible security problem and the URL is to a server in Korea.
That sucking sound you hear is my bandwidth.
This is just one of their ways of telling people they are not a bank. :)
The next time they get into trouble for not following banking rules they can say
"See, we're not a bank...banks don't crash"
Well, hardcore investors won't be able to do anything as all their money will be tied up on the paypal website.
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I know lets post links to their server and slashdot the crap out of them!
PayPal reports problem. We slashdot them.
I know we hate them and all, but why can't we take just a little bit of sympathy?
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. . . the FDIC finally figured out it's an unregulated bank and shut it down.
Thats funny, I never had problems with my paypal account. I get emails all the time from them asking me to verify my account at secure websites like paypal.reallysecure.tk. Sometimes they even send me a utility, paypalbuddy.exe, to keep my computer secure. I feel a lot safer since I've installed paypalbuddy.exe, in fact I know that I'm safe because if I check my task manager I can see that paypalbuddy.exe is using 90% of my CPU to constantly encrypt my paypal traffic, even when I'm not at the computer! I forwarded this handy utility to my mother-in-law and she loves it too.
The only thing Paypal should really focus on now is training their likely outsourced software engineers in proper grammar. Samir is constantly sending me emails about my paypal account though for some reason he can never get some english phrases right. I guess its ok though, I cant expect the entire world to speak english, and I give him an E for effort, especially on those unique poems he attaches to the end of the emails...
Shall I share...
Capture the magic of the season,
Sit down, relax, and have trust in us.
The price of portability
upon Real Girls Business?
Thou must medicate thyself.
Credit where credit is due, this spam poetry site rocks
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
They're just getting ready to invoke line 4531 of the service agreement (that thing in the 5 line scrollbar you agreed to) which says that if they seize your account and all the money therein you agree to settle your case through binding arbitration via email.
Paypal is used for most Ebay transactions, and according to Dick Cheney, Ebay is what's keeping our economy going. I'd say more, but I need to go to the store for canned food, plastic sheeting, and duct tape.
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It probably happened because this ebay seller was selling bootleg dvds and the FBI seized Paypal's servers :)
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First there's an article about how bad it is to be in IT.
/.'ers.
Then PayPal goes down and it receives national attention followed by an assault on the servers by curious
Yeah... I bet there's at least one IT guy out there who's phone is ringing like made who'd agree being IT really sucks...
They've got it fixed now... I just received an email instructing me to re-enter my credit card and bank info because of the recent problems. It looks like it's on a new server in Taiwan too... go figure.
Uhh, all I can say is that my business RELIES on paypal for payments, and today we have lost ALOT of business. At least $1700 in sales. Not being able to use it for a day or so is acceptable? Think outside the box. They are our primary credit card processor. Oh, btw - http://brain-station.com is our store.
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Cool, now have you thought about spell checking your posts before you promote your site in the body of your message?
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A LOT is TWO words
who's software would paypal use at the core that doles out monthly updates?
Well duh, of course it's having problems. Slashdot writes "Website X grinds to a halt" and in seconds, it becomes true. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. ;-)
PayPal is slow right now, almost as if a gaggle of geeks where checking to see if it realy was down. However, everything seems to be working.
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Dude, your signature contains an invitation to hack you. And you wonder what happened to your paypal account ?
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and then... what he said.
....I guess installing SP2 for WinXP was a mistake after all!
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This morning I withdrew my $4.81 so I could get a pack of smokes and a cup-o-noodle.
Guess they were depending on me to pay their internet bill!
Cool! Amazing Toys.
It says "Your information is kept secure." In fact, they keep it so secure, you can't even access it yourself.
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I feel a lot safer since I've installed paypalbuddy.exe, in fact I know that I'm safe because if I check my task manager I can see that paypalbuddy.exe is using 90% of my CPU to constantly encrypt my paypal traffic, even when I'm not at the computer! I forwarded this handy utility to my mother-in-law and she loves it too.
Interesting. I also forwarded to my mother-in-law, although I did not install it locally...
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> Think outside the box.
Why must it be a box?
Maybe they just created that position? Would not surprise me the least.
I'm sorry to have to admit that this is all my fault. After having a paypal account for 3 years, I finally *received* a payment for the first time over the weekend.
:-\
You can obviously see the result. I only regret that my karma had to affect the rest of you
So is it cloudy or something? Why would they go to solar power?
Uhh, all I can say is that my business RELIES on paypal for payments, and today we have lost ALOT of business.
Uhh, that's your problem. Paypal has NEVER been reliable, and I *never* buy from any site/person/whatever that uses PayPal. You need to get a real credit card processor, and stop complaining. It's like complaining that you run a gravel hauling business, your Honda Civic that you used for hauling your trailer full of gravel broke down, and gosh darn it, it shouldn't! If your business RELIES on PayPal, then no offense, but you don't have much of a business.
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