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Title: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: Jwalling on October 04, 2017, 10:07:21 am
Has anybody noticed this lately? Sometimes they take up to a day to arrive in my email. Some never make it at all... :wtf:

I purchased a scope yesterday, and have still not received a "you sent a payment to blah blah blah"
Title: Re: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: wraper on October 04, 2017, 10:18:23 am
I didn't sell on ebay last 2 months but previously I've seen this crap several times about incoming payments. Sometimes it lasted for weeks. Also I've seen empty paypal emails when payment was received, could last a week.
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Some never make it at all... :wtf:
They'll make it.. after a week.
Title: Re: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: Psi on October 04, 2017, 10:28:56 am
Every so often i do notice that a paypal order notification email takes a while to appear after the order.
The longest ive ever had was 2 days
Title: Re: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: bd139 on October 04, 2017, 10:32:08 am
Have had this problem for a few weeks now.

What's worse is they integrated Shutl at least in the UK, so they don't take the payment for post until three days later. By that time I've already emptied paypal out into my bank account and the default bank account I have set up is a mule account so paypal can't rip my main account off randomly and the balance is ZERO. So every bloody week I get a letter from the bank saying they couldn't authorise the payment when paypal attempt to take it.

Total PITA of a service but mostly unavoidable. Grr.
Title: Re: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: medical-nerd on October 04, 2017, 10:41:24 am
Hiya

I have bought a number of low value items past few days - get email notifications within few minutes, however
I have noticed a difference between website and phone app. When I buy from website - notifications take longer (up to hours),
its almost immediate when I use the phone app.

Cheers
Title: Re: eBay and PayPal notification emails being delayed?
Post by: Jwalling on October 04, 2017, 10:41:26 am
OK, then it's not just me then. I was wondering if there might be some broken server between them and Comcast which is my provider.
In the meantime I guess I'll have to keep checking my orders and messages to make sure nothing gets missed. When I sell, I have to ship within one day to keep my "top rated plus" rating. It would suck to lose it because they can't get their act together.
Thanks all!