So I went and did The Right Thing - y’all know what I mean - looking up the almost impossible to find “report a bug” link, submitting a fairly well structured and constructive post. And received the usual brick to the head Form Letter reply.
Dear amd,
Thank you for contacting PayPal, my name is Lisa. After
reviewing your email I understand you are enquiring
about the donation buttons on the website.
If you have an issue with integrating PayPal on your
website and are in need of assistance, please open
a Merchant Technical Support ticket by following the
steps below:
1. Go to https://www.paypal.co.uk/.
2. Click on the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of
any PayPal page.
3. In the ' Merchant Technical Support' box, click
on the 'Merchant Technical Support' link.
4. Please fill in the form and all the required fields.
Alternatively you can click on the following link:
https://www.paypal.co.uk/IntegrationCenter/ic_contact
-support.html
or go to
http://www.paypal.co.uk/integrationcenter
Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Sincerely,
Lisa
PayPal, an eBay Company
Original Message Follows:
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customer subject: Donation button code generator
is broken: 5302
I've documented it at
http://amdsoft.com/2006/07/18/paypal-creating-a-
donate-button-and-error-message-5302-solved/
Your code is generated as:
PKCS7-----
">
The problem is the line break. Fix it to:
PKCS7-----">
and everything works fine.'
Damn, I hate these things. My housemate works in support (not at Paypal) so I must ask him about it sometime, but it appears to me that they have about 3 different form replies and use a magic 8 ball to pick the appropriate one. I look forward to the wonderful, magical day when blogging scales to fulfill all customer service needs. Hey, it might even happen!
The Paypal button I created using the code off their site didn’t work - I was getting this Message 5302 that the world was falling apart or something. Whatever it was, the result was I couldn’t be paid and my goldfish would starve and we can’t have that. So here’s how to fix it.
To create button in the first place, log in to your account, click on the “Merchant Tools” tab and then click on Donations in the “Key Features” box down on the right. Click the “Create Button Now” button down the bottom and you’ll see a page something like this:
The idea is that you copy and paste this code into a webpage to produce your unique Donate button. Great! But the problem is that if you copy and paste the code exactly as above then more than likely you’ll get a “Message 5302: the kettle is unplugged” error, which is bad. Thankfully, it’s a simple fix.
Change the bit that says
PKCS7-----
">
to say:
PKCS7-----">
or in order words, remove the linebreak. Done!
It’s kinda irritating that it’s such a simple thing. I have emailed PayPal tech support many times now about this error message and got the usual brush-off, d’oh!
If you found this post useful in fixing your 5302 error please leave a comment or even link here with the code <a href=”http://amdsoft.com/”>amd on software</a> which I’d really appreciate 
Thanks and good luck!
I’m wondering if the ambatchdotcom seocontest is as pointless as it appears. From looking at the google search results for “ambatchdotcom seocontest” it’s obviously that all the well known SEO tactics are out in force.
- the keywords ambatchdotcom seocontest are spammed all throughout the headings, body and links for relevance bonus. Ok, not quite spammed, but borderline
- many of the sites are blogs for the frequently updated bonus
- urls, particularly domainnames, contain the keywords for relevance bonus (like the guy with his blog at http://ambatchdotcom- seocontest.com/ambatchdotcom-seocontest with a wordpress userid of ambatchdotcom-seocontest)
- domainnames registered years ago are being used to avoid the sandbox effect
- many backlinks within the site increase pageranking
- what many believe is the real winner: external links, hundreds of them, from well ranked sites
- meta tags
- … and finally, I believe there’s even a semantic html site in there. I’ll be watching that one.
So, is it really a worthwhile educational contest as ambatchdotcom would have us believe? Well, I’m not convinced. Most of the above is well known, white hat, good seo practice. I believe that once you have the basics covered that there’s not much more you can do. Unless, of course, you’re morally flexible, and willing to go the black-hat route.
Is this an ambatchdotcom seocontest entry?
So, you ask, what about this post? No, I am not entering the seocontest. However, for a mere 5 euro donation to my paypal account I will give you a live external link to your ambatchdotcom seocontest page from this blog entry with the relevant keywords. What a great deal! For a larger amount I will also be happy to link to you from elsewhere - post a comment below.
