I've purchased ebay items with paypal for years. Recently the process has stopped working. I try to check out, the pay pal window pops up, I choose the top of the 3 options - simply 'PayPal' the sign in pops up, I enter my user ID & Password , the rectangle goes blank and I get a spinning icon in the center of the rectangle, then it refreshes and the spinning icon moves to the top of the rectangle and it eventually times out. Transaction does not complete. I've tried this on several computers (it does work on my cell phone) I've tried FireFox & Chrome. Typically this happen when my Adobe Flash is out of date - I've updated to the latest flash. Logged out & back in on eBay & paypal. Tried everything I can think of. I am able to choose the Credit Card option and it does execute via PayPal.
Hopefully this applys to you or points you in the right direction: I'm using Firefox and had an add-on named 'Honey' it's supposed to have coupon codes and when you go to a merchant's site - it would attempt to apply what ever coupon codes it has to that purchase (can't say I recall a successful coupon being applied) as soon as I uninstalled 'Honey' it started working again. I also use eBates (https://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=HUIgb1IHD5kzMpdtGFhxxw%3D%3D&eeid=29041) which DOES work at accumulating savings off of purchases and then send you a check. Not sure if there may have been a conflict or if it was all Honey's fault - so you may want to try and eliminate any addons.
