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I’ve experienced something similar with ebay and paypal, 100%. Suddenly and out of nowhere I couldn’t login to either and had to do “forget my password” for bo

I’ve experienced something similar with ebay and paypal, 100%. Suddenly and out of nowhere I couldn’t login to either and had to do “forget my password” for both of them. This triggered a several month long incident of my old passwords allowing me to log in and my new password working some of the time. I have absolutely no explanation of it but it got the to the point of having the small number of passwords I’ve used for both of them written down next to my computer. I could type in the same password three days in a row and it worked, and then the fourth day it stopped working and the another old one worked. Deeply frustrating and still no explanation for it.

andybak 7y ago
How would this apply to Ebay and Paypal? As far as I'm aware your use of those services doesn't impose a similar financial burden. Moviepass is fairly unique in having a pathological business model like this.
meesterdude 7y ago
I've also had inexplicable password issues with ebay like you mention above - paypal not that I can recall.
- lloydatkinson 7y ago
  It’s somewhat of a relief to know it wasn’t just me...
TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
I wonder if it's a database consistency issue, where there are several copies of the data and they have gone out of sync.
Fnoord 7y ago
Did you file too many tickets/refunds? I heard from a friend (PayPal helpdesk employee) that they just close your account if you file too many complaints. Which is rather clever because even if it isn't true such urban myth has an effect.
BubRoss 7y ago
Bank of America just tells you your password wasn't right if you are on a VPN. It's terrible from all angles and the only way to find out is to guess what they're problem is or search for forums where people have had the same thing happen and figured it out.
- heavenlyblue 7y ago
  They must use a boolean of “is-vpn” as a (part of) salt for your password. The worst thing is that they can’t even tell themselves if that boolean has to be true or false because of all the hashing. /s
  - brokenmachine 7y ago
    Sounds more like they have a blacklist of VPN IPs and just give the "wrong password" message if you try to login from one.

andybak 7y ago

How would this apply to Ebay and Paypal? As far as I'm aware your use of those services doesn't impose a similar financial burden. Moviepass is fairly unique in having a pathological business model like this.

meesterdude 7y ago

I've also had inexplicable password issues with ebay like you mention above - paypal not that I can recall.

lloydatkinson 7y ago
It’s somewhat of a relief to know it wasn’t just me...

TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago

I wonder if it's a database consistency issue, where there are several copies of the data and they have gone out of sync.

Fnoord 7y ago

Did you file too many tickets/refunds? I heard from a friend (PayPal helpdesk employee) that they just close your account if you file too many complaints. Which is rather clever because even if it isn't true such urban myth has an effect.

BubRoss 7y ago

Bank of America just tells you your password wasn't right if you are on a VPN. It's terrible from all angles and the only way to find out is to guess what they're problem is or search for forums where people have had the same thing happen and figured it out.

heavenlyblue 7y ago
They must use a boolean of “is-vpn” as a (part of) salt for your password. The worst thing is that they can’t even tell themselves if that boolean has to be true or false because of all the hashing. /s
- brokenmachine 7y ago
  Sounds more like they have a blacklist of VPN IPs and just give the "wrong password" message if you try to login from one.