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dantem:
Hi,

I live in Italy and I buy a lot of stuff online, by now mainly books and detox supplements.

Last week I wanted to make a purchase from an US seller and on their website the best payment method is through paypal. So I've chosen the items and put them on the basket, but after a few clicks i stumbled on paypal's site and it was down. It went down from Thursday 20 to Saturday 22, then I was able to make the payment on Sunday.

Then an issue came up with the item I've bought and the seller decided to refund me. Now the refund has arrived, but again, from Wednesday and on the paypal site is unreachable. Nothing, paypal.com and paypal.it, .ca, .co.uk won't work, there's a void after the login page.

Is this a local issue confined to Italy perhaps? The site being blocked from this area only?

I've just perused a dozen of IT sites here, but apart a couple of them, they refers to past histories of paypal's server down.  No updates.

I'm going crazy with that! ...   :shock:

Regulattor:
I've just checked my Paypal account and it works fine from eastern side of Adriatic. I'm gonna buy some CS in next few days and if I encounter difficulties I'm gonna report it.

dantem:
Just checked it and it's always down here. Do they block IP's perhaps?

Thanks for the quick reply Regulattor!

Psalehesost:
There can be problems with some sites being "down" from time to time if your ISP has dodgy DNS. You could try searching for OpenDNS and/or OpenNIC and use one of them instead (following the instructions for configuring one of them for use instead of the default, your ISP's DNS). If this fixes the problem, then there you go. If not, there might still be a small speed benefit to be had. (also, OpenNIC adds support for some new kinds of domain names used by an independent registrar and a few obscure sites using it)

FireShadow:
I had a PayPal transaction on Saturday (22 Nov) and had no problems.  I have been using PayPal for a couple of years for my online business and every now and then it is down for maintenance, but I have not noticed it being down for days at a time.  How very strange.  Have you written to them?

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