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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (47%)
- Errors (35%)
- Website Down (19%)
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The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Herblay
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Errors | 11 hours ago |
 Jacksonville
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Errors | 11 hours ago |
 Chungju-si
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Errors | 19 hours ago |
 Montréal
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Sign in | 24 hours ago |
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Oliver Springs
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Sign in | 1 day ago |
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Ashburn
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Sign in | 1 day ago |
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Paypal Issues Reports
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Dustin (@r0ck3t23) reportedPeter Thiel and David Sacks were going to write a book about PayPal. Elon Musk’s chapter was titled “The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk.” The PayPal Mafia. The sharpest venture minds of a generation. People who had built with Musk. Watched him operate up close. They thought he was out of his mind. Thiel: “When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy.” This was not the press misunderstanding a founder. This was his own people. And they were not wrong by accident. They were wrong by design. Because the framework everyone uses to calculate risk is built on one assumption. That the laws governing what is possible are fixed. Musk did not share that assumption. Thiel figured that out later. Thiel: “If one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he still got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained both succeed, you have to reassess.” One success is luck. Two is a different kind of intelligence entirely. Musk was simultaneously trying to privatize space and electrify transportation. Two industries with the most entrenched players on Earth. Two that had eaten billions in failed attempts. Two that governments spent decades trying to move and couldn’t. He did both. At the same time. Nearly went bankrupt doing it. And came out the other side owning both. That is not luck. That is not even genius. That is a different relationship with reality itself. The conventional risk model measures one thing. The probability of losing what you already have. Capital at risk. Downside scenarios. Protect the position. Musk was running a different equation entirely. He was calculating the cost of not trying. The risk of building a reusable rocket and failing is a rounding error. The risk of humanity remaining trapped on a single planet forever is not. The conventional investor sees a 90% chance of losing everything and calls it irrational. Musk saw a 100% chance of civilizational stagnation if no one moved and called that the real risk. The math was never wrong. The lens was just incomprehensibly larger. Thiel: “Somehow the rest of us are too risk-averse, or there’s something about risk he knows that we don’t.” That is Peter Thiel. One of the most ruthless, clear-eyed thinkers in venture capital history admitting the model broke. Not that Musk got lucky. That the rest of them were running a flawed framework and didn’t know it. That should keep you up at night. Because if the PayPal Mafia had the wrong model, the question is not whether Musk is exceptional. The question is how many other things the conventional framework is catastrophically wrong about right now. How many ideas getting buried today look obvious in ten years. How many founders are being told they don’t understand risk when they are the only ones who do. The chapter never got written. The man it was supposed to warn us about built two of the most important companies in human history instead. They are still writing the explanation. He already moved on to the next impossible thing.
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Yogeshwar Kumar (@inyogeshwar) reported@AskPayPal @grok what is problem
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Shae🍪 (@UbaeShae) reported@JuriJin_vt @Vixsial The other crazy thing I remember was him needing to use multiple PayPal accounts cause he would have “issues”. He even used his cousin’s account and apparently she wasn’t aware of what it was for. Then she was scared cause she was getting threats on his behalf, so the admin
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🐙🏜️🧸 (@GumyGumSage) reported@haopanyo Hey man Im having trouble joining with the paypal feature. I am trying to purchase your 10 dollar tier 3
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youtube.com/@ezhdking (@StarR80733) reportedNo one gives a **** about ur **** life loser u dont even deserve ur fame u have no talent no skill and now u CRY because paypal blocks ur pennies? Real men DO NOT complain but sit down and grind. Ur a manchild. Grow. The. ****. Up.
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esso (@cHeesecHasin2) reportedPayPal keep saying I got money in my account but I can’t login… **** stupid
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Usagii - Comms OPEN (@usagiiart) reportedIf Vgen keeps going down the drain, I will start taking comms only via Paypal and kofi.
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︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ 𓆝⋆｡˚. (@putrefreak) reported/ Guys if you have any money to spare consider donating !! :) . I had no problem with paying with paypal.
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Yogeshwar Kumar (@inyogeshwar) reportedHi @AskPayPal, my account (Ref: PP-L-774805371850) has been permanently deactivated. I believe this happened because I mistakenly uploaded my Driving License when the system asked for a Passport during KYC. This was a genuine human error. I have my original Passport ready now.
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Layal 🌙🖤 (@layalafterdark) reported@santhemu_ @iamjoseh_ I have this, but the problem is that it's not linked to paypal withdrawals, the other one ndio iko na hiyo feature. I don't understand how they separate these things.
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Habib Saba (@HabibSaba4) reported@AskPayPal Hello, I'm having trouble logging into my account because I no longer have access to the registered phone number. I can access my email, but I'm stuck at the 2FA step. Calling support is too expensive for me. Can you please help me verify my identity through other means?Thank you
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🔻𝕖𝕤𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 🔺 (@esbellesantos) reported2 slots left! I had an issue with paypal 😭I cannot get my money for no reasons.
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DirtandDissent (@hwoodhmstd) reported@PayPal are you trying to make it so hard for ppp to pay their bills online therefore we rack up late fees? Whats up with your terrible web design that seems to be intentionally obscuring the bill pay mechanism? Which even after calling yall, I have not located.
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Jack — building TallyBoard (@TallyBoardhq) reportedTalked to a creator yesterday who pulled $11K last month. they doesn't know how much she actually kept. Not because she's bad at math. Because their income came from 6 different places and her expenses are spread across 3 cards and a PayPal account she forgot the password to. This is the actual problem. Not "creators are bad with money." It's that the money is everywhere and the tools are nowhere.
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Ben 10Bandz (@Ben10Bandz) reported@QuiverQuant Ohhh this gonna be a major play considering how down PayPal is
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🍃**** Rat🐁➡️ FurTheMore 27’ (@cookiethefox) reported@PayPal @AskPayPal please fix my PayPal. This is the second account this happened to, I stopped using PayPal a few years ago because of it. Now I needed PayPal for work 💀
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Ndidi Isiah (@didiisiah) reported@UBACares please I need your assistance. Each time I trying paying with my UBA debit card, it declines. Now, I’m trying to link my card to PayPal account but it’s declining as well. What could be the issue?
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Bixu | Video Editor (@bixuedits) reported@dharyaedits Most clients prefer PayPal it’s easier for them to get refund, terrible for freelancers
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Clown ****🔜AC, MP, FurPoc (@Coulrofurbia_C) reported@cookiethefox @PayPal Whaaaat? You made it last week, and then they shut it down ??? How?!?
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SalamandaJay Predebut VT (@SalamanderJay) reported@PGoods42105 Okay I'll give it another shot but PayPal was having issues with it mind you.
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easyk (@ernestombayo) reported@Safaricom_Care 1.Many are unable to use roaming because of their location.roaming partner is not working or unsupported, 2.those who have esim and safaricom was SIM 2 are unable to verify. Should all they travel to Kenya? 3.Why is MPESA still tied to SIM card? See PayPal,Venmo, Cashapp,
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Sanchit Kaushal (@SanchitKaushal5) reported@AskPayPal Hi @AskPayPal I have been stuck with this issue for the past one month, My account is showing the message: “Submit info to access your funds. I have already submitted my PAN card and all the required documents, but my account is still not reviewed and I cannot access my funds.
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Matthew (@InboundsEye) reported@The_Franchisee_ @MrMckenith ER619 is horrible. He once asked for my PayPal login information and two “proof of life” photos to buy a mod.
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Roberto Savanelli (@RobertoSava87) reported@AskPayPal I cannot access my account because the verification code is sent to my old phone number. I don’t have access to it anymore. I also cannot contact support because it requires login. Please help me recover my account.
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Aaron (@crazycave) reportedBeen experiencing an issue with my PayPal account regarding the payment method that I'm using
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Zethuzz (@Zethuzzzz) reported@PayPal in spite of setting a default card, you keep withdrawing from the wrong account . Problem did not exist earlier. Why are you making this worse?
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Casey Payne (@casey_Payne23) reported@BradWardFight @BERSERKER_THiiS Do you force peeps to use PayPal? That sorted my issues completely. Peeps can’t **** around. At least here
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universal spirit (@rebirthspiritXL) reported@luckybbokari @globalamoremall I had problem with PayPal on their website, in the end I payed with credit card, kinda frustrating …
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Sean Gonzalez (@SeanGon08951848) reported@LynneBP_294 I never had any real bad issues with PayPal and been using them for over 20yrs.
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Rotifarn (@rotifarn) reported@AskPayPal @PayPal @AskPayPal Hello!. I'm stuck in a verification loop and can't upload my ID. Please help me fix the upload form so I can verify my account.