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PayPal Nightmares (again)

I am the web developer. My customer recently set up a new account for PayPal. There are about 40 - 50 buttons saved from the previous account. Is there a way to port those button to the new account?

We are using the fundamental, basic PayPal.

Of course I've tried to submit a question to PayPal about this & it appears that either (a) there is no way to submit a question or (2) it is WELL HIDDEN.

Does anyone know?

Michel Plungjan

Normally you have an account number in the button, can't you just change that?

For example my paypal page here: http://plungjan.name/reward.html has thisL

<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="1234567" />

which I am sure I could change to another number

Richard Korts

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To mplungjan:

In the setup I'm using, the button ID's are 13 characters & every one is unique; I do not see any embedded account #. That 13 chars seems to be the only thing that distinugishes one button from another.

Thanks

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Richard Korts

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To mplungjan:

Yeah, I doubt it too.

What I'm trying to avoid is recreating about 50 buttons & the programming changes and/or database updates.

A related question is "Why is it so difficult to get info directly from PayPal rather that having to go to EE, etc."?

Thanks,

Richard