PayPal problems

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For some reason whenever I try to use PayPal (or rather, 99% of the time), any given PayPal page loads only about 1/4.... meaning I cannot use any of its functions, from sending money to checking the balance to withdrawing to my bank account (this last function being U&K since I have a lot of money sitting in a now-useless PayPal account). I cannot even access the "Help" page that would allow to send a frantic email to PayPal service asking what is happening. I installed the newest version of IE that I can use on this machine (IE 5.2 for Mac, I think) and that didn't help. I've toyed with preferences, nothing. I guess I will have to go to one of them internet cafes and see if I can access it from there. But if I can't access it from home, that's basically goodbye to eBay, which is to say, goodbye to dependable cashflow from rare records in a time of severe austerity (personally at least).

Has anyone else been having problems with PayPal?

P.S. I hate computers.

amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Have you tried phoning them? http://www.jdhodges.com/log/1330 has a list of telephone numbers.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I use it every week and it's never given me any problems. Try another computer.

(on a side note, knowing some of your tastes, I'd probably love to buy some rare records from you!)

AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

amateurist? are you using OS X?

0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

no, sadly my computer will only accomodate os 9.2.

amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Some sites for you: http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002148.php

and

http://www.paypalsucks.com

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 June 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I've had no problems with them, and have put a few thousand dollars through the service over the past year.

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

to me, it seems that to a man, people who have problems were trying to do something shonky.

are 'friends' electricsound? (electricsound), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i would imagine that these sort of sites exist for every major company, especially those working through the internet. that said, certain of paypal's policies are disturbing. note though that many of the incidents cited, and many of the anti-paypal articles, are dated to 2001-2002. perhaps things have improved since then?

amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

FWIW, I haven't had a single problem with PayPal but I haven't used them for anything more than basic auction payment.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...
how do I send an "eCheck"?

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
Don't have a PayPal account? You don't need an account. Pay securely using your credit card.

*Pay securely with your PayPal account (optional).

*Pay with Credit Card.

I select pay with credit card then fill the form to get this:

Your account registration cannot be completed. To complete this transaction please register at http://www.paypal.com

S. (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Is it legitimate for a shop to send you a PayPal invoice through an email attachment? I've been arranging to buy I book and they sent me such an email with attachment.

Can't find much advice about this.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link

Paypal has an invoicing feature for business. Is the question whether it should come in the body of the email or as an attachment?

the HegeMony Mony Chant thread in the Most Read Threads List (sarahell), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link

Yeah I'm not used to it coming as an attachment. It's usually in the body of the email. I'm a bit worried about what to say to them because I don't feel comfortable downloading an attachment.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link

Actually the attachment is an rtf (rich text file), so it might just be instructions.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link

ten months pass...

Does anyone know how many days the "Monthly limit" is? I have a $500 monthly limit on withdrawls and I withdrew that amount 9/9/2015. Went in today to withdraw the remaining $200+ and it said I still had to wait.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 October 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

I wanted to buy a Syrian-Greek record from a friend of mine, but because i used the word "syrian" in the comments section, paypal will not let me buy it. i sent them an email explaining that i just wanted to buy a record, made in the U.S.A. in the thirties; i sent them a photo of a label and jumped through their "resolution center" hoops. NO DICE.

ended up just sending the guy a few cents less and no problems with the payment.

ian, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link

there's a class action about this IIRC. google around. whatever you can do to fuck PayPal over from the buyers' end is time well spent imho

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

did they just (just = less than a year ago) remove the ability to download a detailed version of your activity for personal accounts? Detailed = shows gross, separate column for fees, separate column for net.

Yeah, I should probably get a business account.

Still annoying though.

sarahell, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Hey, wondering if anyone knows which places accept paypal (restaurants) as method of payment. it seems nearly impossible to find any place and their tech support licks

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link

like a paypal voucher

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link

Ok I’ll bite. Why the fuck would you want to pay with PayPal?

calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link

cuz that's the only money i have and i have a free voucher. be nice man.

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link

i found a place anyway, ubereats. try poverty sometime man instead of immediate dickishness

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link

some of us don't have money, allstar.

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link

Ok ok

calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link

man i had to quell my anger at your rudeness. learn something man, better ask somebody

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link

you could apologize. i eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast

stoker (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link

four years pass...

I've had an account for probably a decade, rarely used it after the first couple of years. When I used it the other day, it was fine, but they wanted my phone number for extra security. So I updated that, and was immediately enmeshed in one of those maddening feedback loops that go along with having a landline and no cell: if you want to opt out of verification codes via messaging you have to log in, but you can't log in because you don't have messaging.

Managed to get a human being on the phone, and since they wouldn't let me out of two-step, I happily cancelled the account. At first it felt like they weren't even going to let me do that--you can't access your account and you can't cancel it either--but I, uh, very calmly explained why that didn't make me happy.

clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link


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