Buy Now Button Error

[livicole]

I recently created a "Buy Now" button for my website (http://www.wooshortstack.org/fashion-show-2011#!__fashion-show-2011). However, whenever I or someone clicks on it, a Paypal screen saying the following comes up:

"Sorry — your last action could not be completed

If you were making a purchase or sending money, we recommend that you check both your PayPal account and your email for a transaction confirmation after 30 minutes.

If you came to this page from another website, please return to that site (don't use your browser's Back button) and restart your activity.

If you came from PayPal's website, click the PayPal logo in the upper-left corner to return to our home page and restart your activity. You might have to log in again."

Here is my code:

<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="P5R83Q6WVKN4N">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-640-20110306-1/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

Please help! What could be the problem and how do I go about fixing it?

Thanks!

[livicole · Accepted solution]

I read through some older forum topics and was able to figure it out!

[TJL]

I have exactly the same thing happening.  Can anyone tell me how to fix this please

[N_R]

I have been a long-time Paypal user and I am now having this same issue.  I will go further to state that all of my older Pay Now buttons work perfectly fine.  When I create new buttons is when I have this same error. 

UPDATE: Since posting this, I resolved MY issue.  Had to do with PayPal security AND Paypal payment pages loaded in frames.  Here is what I found out from another website and it worked for me:

We can't fully confirm this, but it appears that the problem lies with Paypal payment pages loaded in frames. In other words, if you're clicking a Paypal payment button on a page that resides within another page (via a frame), then Paypal doesn't like it and blocks the payment request. We surmise this could be as a result of a recent security update or something similar. Until we know more, the workaround for this problem is to open the payment page in a new window. If you're an online shopper, you can accomplish this by simply right-clicking the Paypal payment button and selecting "open in a new window." The exact method to do this varies by browser, but they all offer it. Once the Paypal payment page loads in the new window, it should work fine.

For those of you that are running your own online stores, and your Paypal payment page currently resides in a frame - you will need to add code to force the payment page to open in a new window when the user clicks on it. You want to add the following attribute to the anchor link that calls the payment page:

<a target="_blank" href="https://paypal.com...">Buy Now</a>

This will effectively bust the payments page out of the frame and open it in a new window.