I am a website designer with dozens of sites using PayPal Payments Standard for their on line stores. All of them are experiencing this issue. I spent about a half hour on the phone on Friday with one PayPal tech trying to tell me that my PayPal button was set up incorrectly (I know it was not - I'm not using a PayPal button, I'm using a full ecommerce store with PayPal Payments Standard as the payment option). I did more checking at tht point and that's when I found out it was not just one store - but all of them. I then called PayPal back, and fortunately got someone who knew what they were talking about and was told it was a "known problem" and they were working on it and would hopefully have it fixed with a "few hours" - that was Friday, Dec. 9 around 4 pm central time. I see from the posts here that it actually started the day before. I did get an email from the Friday afternoon which said: Thank you for contacting Merchant Technical Support. Unfortunately, the problem you're experiencing is being caused by some technical issues with the PayPal system. Our engineers are currently working diligently on a solution to this problem. I am going to assign this ticket to our internal engineering ticket so that when the problem is resolved, you will be notified of its completion right away. This ticket will remain in a "Pending Fix" status until you're contacted about the resolution. I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience! My customers are pretty upset about this and have emailed me multiple times over the weekend. Unfortunatley all I can tell them is that we need to wait for PayPal to fix it. Very frustrating!! Has anyone else heard anything new?
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