{"id":35701,"date":"2020-02-25T05:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35701"},"modified":"2020-02-25T05:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:12:29","slug":"ebay-paypal-problems-and-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/ebay-paypal-problems-and-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay &#8211; PayPal problems, and a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBay sellers of books etc may be encountering problems that appear to have <a href=\"https:\/\/community.ebay.com\/t5\/Technical-Issues\/Ebay-Checkout-Issue-not-Connecting-to-Paypal-Undefined-Spinner\/td-p\/30673780\/highlight\/true\/page\/4\">been ongoing for several weeks now<\/a>.  Customers may be contacting you telling you they can&#8217;t pay, with far more silently abandoning their cart. Specifically, the problem is that eBay Checkout never passes the customer over to PayPal, as the log-on popup hangs forever at the &#8216;spinning disc&#8217;.  If that&#8217;s the case, then tell them to add the following URLs to their ad-blocker whitelist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/urls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/urls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"189\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That solved the problem for me. It appears that recent updates to Web browers adblockers, the popular UBlock Origin specifically, means that these URLs have to be whitelisted afresh. <strong>pay.ebay<\/strong> also looks new to me, and may be the real stumbling block. Your customer&#8217;s native Web browser &#8216;tracking protection&#8217; \/ adblocker \/ pop-up blocking may need to be turned off, as well as secondary adblocking add-ons such as Fair AdBlocker. The generic &#8216;accept cookies&#8217; pop-up may also need to be accepted, over at PayPal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay sellers of books etc may be encountering problems that appear to have been ongoing for several weeks now. Customers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/ebay-paypal-problems-and-a-solution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}