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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; PayPal</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
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		<title>StatCounter Faces Problems With PayPal, What is Your Experience?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[StatCounter sent a somewhat emotional email yesterday to all customers (paying or non-paying) telling us about the problems it is facing with PayPal. To summarize the two major issues affecting StatCounter Paypal subscribers are:
- Delayed issuing of invoices
- Instances of double billing
StatCounter complains - 
At StatCounter we have tried phoning, emailing, posting on the Paypal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/statcounter-faces-problems-with-paypal-what-is-your-experience/</link>
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		<title>ICICI PaySeal, PayPal Alternative, Offline!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA. Even the server cannot be pinged. 
I am not sure what exactly happened. What could bring down a major online payment processor? I wonder if it is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/icici-payseal-paypal-alternative-offline/</link>
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		<title>Gotchas of Automating PayPal Transaction Processing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PayPal provides an API to automate transaction processing. This is great for businesses selling electronic products. Automated transaction processing speeds up order processing and is somewhat expected from a large section of internet savvy buyers. However it has some caveats as we found yesterday.
We sell Translator Plugin Pro for 30$ using a simple online PayPal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gotchas-of-automating-paypal-transaction-processing/</link>
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		<title>Strong Anti-Email Spam Protection In Place&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL&#8217;s and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day. It should drop even more as I added more RBL to my list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/strong-anti-email-spam-protection-in-place/</link>
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		<title>Google Checkout: Another Google Flop? .. Is it Safe for Buyers &#038; Sellers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Google Checkout came out I was very excited to have a viable alternative to PayPal from a reputed company despite its limitation to US only market. Since its launch I have heard several complaints from my readers, with zero positive experiences.
Patrick said:
within 10 days of the Checkout launch, my credit card info was stolen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-checkout-another-google-flop-is-it-safe-for-buyers-sellers/</link>
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		<title>How To Contact PayPal Customer Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PayPal support page isn&#8217;t visible even for logged in users. Any email to support@paypal.com is automatically bounced. The support page is a hidden page in PayPal (nice way to ensure good customer support, isn&#8217;t it?).
You can find it here - https://www.paypal.com/ewf/f=default
It has a standard set of questions which tries to outguess you. 
Few pointers:
1. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-contact-paypal-customer-support/</link>
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		<title>Use PayPal With SouthWest Airlines Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UATP, the airline-owned global corporate travel payment network, is helping to enable PayPal payments for online airline ticket purchases and has successfully launched PayPal payment for Southwest Airlines.
Through the UATP network of over 220 airlines around the globe, PayPal is able to use the network to connect to the airlines and process payments.
To make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/use-paypal-with-southwest-airlines-too/</link>
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		<title>PayPal Site Down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am unable to login to PayPal this morning (evening my time). On proper login it gives the message:
We are unable to complete your request at this time. Please click Retry or try again later. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Message 3004
Have you seen this? Any idea what can cause this?
Update: It is back up.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/paypal-site-down/</link>
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