{"id":53,"date":"2008-05-28T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/paypal-reliability-problems\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T00:09:49","slug":"paypal-reliability-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/paypal-reliability-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Reliability Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is rather worrying that:<\/p>\n<p>a) PayPal broke something so fundamental as subscription payments. Don\u2019t they have proper testing before they roll out changes?<\/p>\n<p>b) It still wasn\u2019t fixed 12 days later.<\/p>\n<p>c) PayPal seem completely unresponsive to requests for information from developers when problems occur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/successfulsoftware.net\/2008\/05\/28\/paypal-problems\/\">According to Andy Brice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 2009-12-17: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.apparentsoft.com\/business\/124\/is-paypal-good-for-your-microisv-business-a-short-paypal-horror-story\/\">A terrifying and Kafkaesq story of Paypal shutting down an indie developer&#8217;s account, because of a spike in sales due to a bundle sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rather worrying that: a) PayPal broke something so fundamental as subscription payments. Don\u2019t they have proper testing before they roll out changes? b) It still wasn\u2019t fixed 12 days later. c) PayPal seem completely unresponsive to requests for information from developers when problems occur. According to Andy Brice UPDATE: 2009-12-17: A terrifying and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,44,549],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-money","tag-paypal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}