Why is PayPal so slow?

Never really understood why PayPal, a company that makes billions of dollars a year, has such a slow website. In some cases, it takes them 2 minutes or more to find an older transaction...if the page even loads at all.

Anyone else get frustrated with how slow PayPal is? 

Anyone else get frustrated with how slow PayPal is?

No.

Anyone else get frustrated with how slow PayPal is? 

No.

I haven't noticed that either.

Well, the next time you have to search for a payment from several months ago, or even worse, a search using the customer's last name and from several months in the past, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Maybe it's time to ditch the dial up? 

Maybe it's time to ditch the dial up? 

If I had dial up, I would have an excuse for being bald...pulling my hair out!

Some people have road rage. I have slow loading page rage. I know, I need to get out more. 

I agree with you. For the person casually printing a few labels the lag times of a few seconds probably aren't a big deal but when you do a lot of business and can spend an hour or two a night printing labels that few seconds it takes from printing a packing slip to transition back to the main page to print the label really adds of and keeps you from doing things quickly. I know there's services like inkfrog where you can print all your days orders with the click of a button however I don't really trust it as there are glitches and sometimes it wont print or prints a priority weighted package instead of a priority flat rate like its set for. If there's even the slightest mistake its a nightmare trying to go back in and figure out what did print and what didnt so I stick to the old way of going item by item, takes longer but i know things will get done right.

This is my main headache but i agree the site overall loads pages slow and works slowly. I dont fault them for pulling reports. It used to be terrible, now when I pull bigger reports at least they changed it so intstead of letting my computer clock for an hour and then fail at pulling a report it will say this is a big report we'll email it to you when its done and then you get the report emailed in excel doc instead of waiting and it failing like it used to.

Cn't fault them too much. Think about how many accounts people have with them and then think of how many transactions each of those accounts have. They have to implement security and encryption in because of the finanical and person info involved sothose things slow up website performance as well.

I agree though I have always found the site to be slow