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Ask HN: Has anyone noticed an increase in payments failure through PayPal

#1
Pretty much what it says on the tin, more and more often Paypal hangs on me, quits, etc...

I'm in the middle of moving some money around and seriously considering just taking out the cash and paying a mate to transport it.

I've also noticed some weird peaks on other bank systems, all in different places: Panama, Switzerland, South Africa, and Japan.

My question is the following: Have you noticed anything? Extra traffic? Longer wait times? More failed anything? How about credit cards? Any failed transactions?

And well, I'm an engineer, I want to know why, actually I want to know if something IS actually happening or if it's just because I'm very active user and therefore more in contact with.

Cheers, keep your rifles oiled.

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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone noticed an increase in payments failure through PayPal

#7

I tried to buy something from Steam yesterday and it hung for a while, a gave up and tried again today. May be unrelated.

I took a look at Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

It looks fine, dark areas are dark, green areas are green.

Still, my antenitas de vinil are twitching, someone, somewhere fucked up I think, probably not important and probably already fixed, but it was a weird one.

Because I just helped a client set-up their Monero and put funds into it, no problem, zilch, smooth as butter.

So are ETH, BTC, and even fucking DOGE.

For a moment I thought that the Serbians had rushed into fucking Kosovo and were pulling a DDOS, I mean... Not the Serbians obviously, but you know.

So yeah, probably nothing, meeting a mate next week in London however, he's BT so I'll ask him if he's seen anything odd.

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone noticed an increase in payments failure through PayPal

#8

Can’t speak to PayPal, but my transfers between TransferWise and Chase are instant now vs failures or slowdowns. Highly recommend Wise if you can.

Ironically I have an important transfer that was just delayed several days with Wise that is usually instant (from a linked account), but yes generally it's very good

Re: Ask HN: Has anyone noticed an increase in payments failure through PayPal

#10
I had a recent experience with Venmo, owned by Paypal. Not sure if it is related but it was very frustrating.

I thought I already had Venmo so when I customer asked I said yes. Turns out I had a Zelle account. So I quickly set up Venmo. They did a business and personal account by default. I went through all the steps and Venmo said everything was working and ready.

The customer transferred me the money and boom, my account was frozen for "violating the ToS", no more explanation. They transferred money to an account Venmo said was fine. Transferring money IS their business so I thought it weird that this violated their ToS. Also weird that nothing violated the ToS until they had my money.

There is no phone number to call. Chat doesn't help.

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