We have just spend mere 3 hours to create a simple PayPal Button for a customer. Everything we wanted was to give the buyer the opion of 3 different amounts, 4 different designs of a card, a textfield and that#s it. But gues what PayPal did? Could you as a buyer – once the form was created and embedded on the website – choose the amount you wanted? NO. Every single time it would set you back to the first of all three amounts – let's say we have 10, 20 and 30 dollar – and I chose 30 – was forwarded to PayPal and what did I see? YEAH right! Amount 10. Great isn't it? We searched and tried and created and deleted and tried once more. But then... what was that?? We found out – we were lucky! – that the names for the amounts can not be the same! So instead of writing: Amount 10 Amount 20 Amount 30 We had to go with: Amount 1 10 Amount 2 20 Amount 3 30 Are you kidding me? Wouldn't it be awesome of there was something... I don't know.. a sign, a hint, SOMETHING, that would have told us, that this is why the form is not working properly? Thanks PayPal you just stole 3 hours of my precious time with being absolute suckers at user interface designers And you know what made it even worse? I am mainly using Safari and Chrome... and everytime I want to edit a Button, PayPal automatically logs out! So I log back in – but noo I am not where I left (at the button generator) .. I am at the homepage of my account! And as some genious decided to hide the button generator somewhere deep down in the dark corners of PayPal, I even have to leave the PayPal site, google "PayPal Button Generator" and THEN I am logged in and can proceed with editing. I did this for 3 hours straight – until I tried with firefox, which apparently is PayPal's favorite browser as they actually thought about how to set up theit logout automatism within this browser. Once again PayPal: get your **bleep** together!
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