Comments on: PayPal reliability problems

By: Marvin McConoughey

Marvin McConoughey — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:05:10 +0000

In a word, NO. PayPal remains an unreformed global example of bad management and contempt for customers that has made it so notorious. I am on my second hour of trying to make my PayPal account work. PayPal continues to insist that my credit card number belongs to another account. Its advice is to use another credit card. I don’t have another credit card. I surmise that the problem stems to my months-ago change to a new Internet Service Provider (ISP), but that is only a guess.

Repeated calls to PayPay brought forth only an automated answering service that advised me that an email was being sent to tell me what to do, and to provide a link to click on, and then to input new data. No such email has arrived, despite two efforts on my part. I suspect that PayPal knows only my old email address, but I cannot talk to anyone to resolve the issue.

By: Lenore Waring

Lenore Waring — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:51:34 +0000

I am a very small fish with a service website. I now hope to sell my book on it and have had a PayPal account for some time so naturally thought of them first. Is PayPal more responsive now?

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FollowSteph.com - Why You Can’t Just Compare Languages With Lines of Code — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:19:43 +0000

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By: EPORIA

EPORIA — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:07:06 +0000

No matter how you slice it, you’re better off having your own payment gateway and merchant account if possible.

By: Chris Bruno

Chris Bruno — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:35:53 +0000

I have had problems with paypal in the past. Sometimes the IPN just does not get sent. Luckily, I would notice this and quickly generate a key manually and send the user an email. Im glad more and more sales are coming from google checkout.

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:48:38 +0000

Ah, that’s good info. I had a customer email me the other day asking if they were ever going to get the software they had purchased from us. We never received the Payment Notification email from PayPal!

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:38:17 +0000

Google and Amazon are both very ambitious. I expect them to keep expanding the countries their services to cover more potential vendors and buyers.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:14:47 +0000

Unfortunately, Google Checkout is limited to US and UK vendors (Hello? There’s world outside of US!) and Amazon Payments are still in *limited* beta — i.e. not available to everyone. No word about whether it will be available for non-US developers yet. But I’m skeptical — not even Marketplace is available worldwide to this day!

By: Vincent Gable » Blog Archive » PayPal reliability problems

Vincent Gable » Blog Archive » PayPal reliability problems — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:21:25 +0000

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