"and anything you might have done that may have caused the error", you naughty boy!

PayPal is OK now - 10:52 BST.

Looks like its back up now:

http://developer.paypal-portal.com/t5/Live-Site-Status/bg-p/mts_updates

"Resolved: This notification is to inform you that the following issue with PayPal website has been resolved as of Jun 24, 2:37 AM PDT (Jun 24, 10:37 AM BST)."

when I got a couple of domains from 123 reg & then hit the lazy button cos I couldnt be arsed to get my card out

I call shenaningans. Worked fine at 7:50am and works fine now :-P

These weren't BT ISP reg users were they? RS has been failing for a few days on BT..

eBay encourages sellers to use PayPal?

I think the word you're looking for here is *forces*

Paypal refuses to accept my Credit card at all. I have used it to make direct payments though, seen the receipt so I know it works.

I have spoken to a human by phone & they said my account was "blocked". They "un-blocked" my account. It still doesn't work!

BTW nice to see the new icons but why is Gates still there? He's so yesterday!

This appears to be El Reg's word of the day. It's in three separate headlines at time of writing.

Re titsup, I remember the good old days of the first .com bubble, when 90% of stories on the reg were 'suchandsuch.com goes titsup'. Those were the days!

*beer because it's the perfect weather for one

I click through from the RSS feed hoping to see that PayPal have gone bankrupt, yet it's just a website outage.

that teh outage coincides with one of my rare purchases using PayPal. The merchant gave me an error page saying the transaction failed hence order not processed, I tried again same result. 30 mins later 2 emails from paypal saying my transaction has been processed but of course no order processed by merchant.Grrrr.

== evidence of it's ubiquity (which for the most part is due to eBay's snidey setup)

I wonder if the glitch is reponsible for this email:

Dear Tony Blair,

On , we attempted to transfer from your bank account, ending in . This transfer was returned by your bank on for the reason below:

There was a bank processing error.

As a result, this bank account has been removed from your PayPal account. Please contact your bank for more information or add a new bank account. Please do not contact PayPal because this is entirely an issue between the account holder and their bank.

Yours sincerely,

PayPal

I did get another one :

Dear Tony Blair,

The mandate from your bank account, ending in 1234, was returned by your bank on 24 Jun. 2009 for the reason below:

The bank is disputing the Direct Debit Instruction (DDI).

Yours sincerely,

PayPal

Which considering I do not have any DDIs set up on paypal is a bit odd. I thought they might be phishing emails but now I'm not sure as they both arrived at 10:59

But if lots of people got them who have DDIs set up and they really have blanked out all those bank details there will be a lot of very unhappy people

can we see the tits that have gone up, please?

... welcome our new...

oh hang on, what was the article about?

oh never mind.