When sending customers to Paypal from my website I am seeing a new error message I’ve never spotted before:
Error Detected
We are sorry, we are experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later. If this error occurred while making a payment, avoid duplicate payments by checking your Account Overview before resending a payment.
Message 3005
Googling this message suggests it is just one shown to the general public when Paypal is overloaded….but I don’t think that can apply to me becuase the Paypal site responds normally to other parts of my website which use a HTML link. It is when I use an ASP.NET Response.Redirect that I see the error.
I have checked the URL is correct and encoded correctly. So I really would like clarification that message 3005 is indeed one that can be shown when the incoming request is erroneous, as well as when the Paypal site is under heavy load.
Is this generic message shown in both circumstances? Is Response.Redirect acceptable?
“Googling this message suggests it is just one shown to the general public when Paypal is overloaded…”
And that’s why you can’t always trust Google results.
No, a ‘3005 error’ does not mean PayPal is ‘overloaded’. It is a generic error which can be returned for various internal and external reasons.
It’s the PayPal equivalent of ‘Something went wrong’, without actually saying what went wrong.
Can you reproduce this error consistently? And if so, what are the steps to reproduce it?
Can you include your code?