Paypal Subscriptions are Currently Inoperable

September 2, 2007

Ouch! There are already those who are a little skeptical of using Paypal for business transactions. Now we have a little more fuel to the fire. Paypal is currently having problems with their subscription service and is not processing any transactions for subscriptions. A lot of users are reporting big time problems with it right now. Aparrently, the problem started on August 30th and will continue until September 5th or 6th. Paypal has acknowledged the problem and says all pending subscription payments will be processed despite the delay. Judging by the comments on the related post at Techcrunch, subscriptions are really spotty. Some say it is processing new subscriptions, just not renewals.

There are already those who question the use of Paypal for business. We used to hear of horror stories of frozen accounts. Personally, I have been using Paypal for some time now and have had no problem with them. Of course, just to be on the safe side, I also have my own merchant account and do process cards regularly through Authorize.Net. But, some people prefer Paypal when making online purchases and that’s fine with me. I’ll allow it. Money is money, right?

Anyway, first it was Skype. Now Paypal. I guess Ebay is having a bad couple weeks.

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