PayPal site outage affects eBay payments

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There has been a major PayPal outage today so if you’re wondering why your buyers haven’t paid for their purchases this is probably the reason.

If your items require immediate payment then it’s also likely that they’ve not been able to complete their purchase in the first place. Your customers will be seeing an error screen informing them that eBay are experiencing technical difficulties.

PayPal appears to be running very slowly for some users, and timing out for others. Currently PayPal are aware of the issue and are working on a resolution.

Edited to add: PayPal say that the outage has now been fixed

4 Responses

  1. Ten buyers that i know of not able to complete sales tonight. Seems to be fixed now, on the plus side i can have an extra hour in bed in the morning !!!

  2. We don’t need immediate payment , so it had no effect on our ebay sales , but caused website payment issues. Express checkout was broken for about an hour.

  3. I have a far higher number of purchases that have not been immediately paid for than normal. Even now they are stacking up.

    This increases admin and does not help with DSR’s so not a happy bunny. Something does appear to be causing an issue.

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