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krystofurr · ‎Mar-14-2012

Hi,

So this issue is probably known yet I haven't found a fix for it. A Paypal buy now button seems to give error 3005 when I click on it.

I have placed the button in a basic HTML 4 page with nothing in it but the html tags, head, body tags. In the body tags I placed the paypal button code and when I click on it through IE9 it errors out. Sometimes it goes through...sometimes it doesn't. Is there a fix for this?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
	<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="ERN3NJN3YJ2BE">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

</body>

</html>

krystofurr · ‎Mar-14-2012

Oh there is a test link there at www.peitrailerrentals.com/paypal_test.html

Telexer23 · ‎Mar-18-2012

Just fyi. I tested your buy now button with Firefox 8.0 and IE 9. The button works in both browsers -- gets me to the PP payment page.

I have a customer who cannot use my buy now button (same error 3005). Buy now buttons are here

http://www.breakthrusoftware.com/html/products/soundmgr/how2buy.html

Not sure this is a browser issue. Waiting to hear back from PP support. Thanks for posting though.

Telexer23 · ‎Mar-18-2012

FYI. My customer cleared browser cache and cookies, then the BuyNow button worked. No more Error 3005. Go figure.

BTW, I saw this reported in several forum on the Web.

"The 3005 error message you are receiving is almost always intermittent although it can last for extended periods of time as you have experienced. As there are many different reasons it can happen my best suggestion is to try again after 24 hours."

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