At 9:28 PM -0400 8/29/2008, Steve R wrote: >At 6:51 PM -0400 8/29/08, Dan posted: >> At 4:32 PM -0400 8/29/2008, Steve R wrote: >>>been struggling with trying to get paypal to accept a payment [...] >>>Everything went normally until the final page when there would be a >>>message that my payment was being processed. Within minutes I'd get >>>an email (a nice collection of 9 so far) telling me that my payment >>>needed to be resent. >> >> If you don't mind, would you please forward one of those emails to me? > >Other than listing the item, this is the sum total (minus all the >footers) of the message, all 9 times: > >"Sorry, your recent PayPal payment did not go through. As a result, the >item(s) below have not received payment.Please return to eBay to resubmit >your payment again."
yea. That's their engrish server-side error return. I got that twice last year. That it seemed to be fixed when you switched to Firefox was probably coincidence. > > Paypal sends such when there is a back-end SERVER related error. It >> doesn't sound like this has anything to do with using Safari. > >There are websites where I get those error messages. There were no >such error messages, everything went as usual on the website. Yes and no. You didn't get the error on the server to which you were talking. The error occurred BEHIND that server, in the back-end pools that actually perform the transactions. At that point, you're no longer talking to that page on Paypal, so the only way they can notify you of a problem is via email. Kindof dumb of Paypal to make you go back to eBay and resubmit. They *have* the data they need. They should just retry. Um, keep in mind that Paypal does a lot of things in the front-end servers, that you see. But most of it is pretty visual bookkeeping to make you, the customer, happy. They cover things with their own float - that's how they make most transactions seem "instantaneous". The *real* transaction - the back-end server talking to the credit card processor's servers who in turn talks to the bank's servers - happens at a later time. Paypal's queues run VERY full. Sometimes the transactions can take a few minutes to run, sometimes as much as an hour. ...By comparison, if you had a real merchant account, you would pass the data to the processor where it would be be half-processed - authorizations obtained. Then, hours or even days later, you would reconnect to the processor and "close the batch", which would then actually execute all the transactions. > >>Between phone calls to my credit card companies, trying to leave > >>feedback on the support site, searching google for similar problems >>>and smoking most of a pack of cigarettes, I wasted most of today. >> >> You didn't call Paypal? > >Yes, and sat on hold for more than 45 minutes at which point I hung >up. Time is money. Wow. I've never had more than a 5 or 10 minute hold with Paypal. Not good. :( - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
