eBay status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

eBay signals over the past 24 hours. The dashed line is the service-wide baseline used to detect unusual activity.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by eBay users through our website.

• Website Down (65%)
• Sign in (22%)
• Errors (13%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent eBay outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Chinnor	Website Down	10 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	12 hours ago
Berlin	Sign in	13 hours ago
Goiânia	Sign in	15 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	17 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	22 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Byron Vallis (@Byronnn6) reported 7 minutes ago

  @calvinfroedge Free shipping and eBay fees will knock this down to like $4.5 my friend. Better luck next time

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  Card Shop Guys Podcast (@Card_Shop_Guys) reported 12 minutes ago

  As most of us know, there have been plenty of people opening and selling 30th anniversary product early across Whatnot and other platforms. Over the past week TPCi has decided to put their foot down, specifically with sellers on Ebay. Several sellers have been contacted by Ebay and informed that their early listings for raw Pokemon cards from the 30th anniversary set have been taken down. Ebay claims the listings were in violation of their stolen product policy. I wonder if TPCi will go after Whatnot themselves and other platforms to root out the source of the problem....

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  yolanda j smith-bond (@yolandajsmmqc) reported 17 minutes ago

  @netnanny @Rbls24 Wanted to move discussion from Twitter (X) to @LiveJournal My login from funci* is messed up, msgd Dave's wife yesterday, & McGough from DMS (bombing by Frost Bank downtown messed up the LJ platform in ~2003). I forget ____________ tried to sell it on a shell version of eBay.

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  Gavin Forsyth (@Gavin4syth) reported 19 minutes ago

  @eBay @askebay This does not work. The options only loop with no option to resolve my issue because I cannot contact an agent by phone.

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  Penni (@tulipgennaro) reported 25 minutes ago

  Selling on eBay is so slow

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  🕯️ (@sixlinekenner) reported 26 minutes ago

  resolution to not buy more dolls this week broken by $50 ebay pullip #yay

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  Psygnosevo (@ytevo79) reported 28 minutes ago

  Ive had an £80 offer from ebay for the first game (pictured) down from £100, but the manual has a tear mark so that puts me off. But I might pop back into that shop and get the sequel first as its a good price if its good condition.. Tis a shame only now Im interested in these!

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  RedxDevilx44 (@RedxDevilx44) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Card_Shop_Guys ebay takes down one ad and all the cringe YouTubers run with it. wild

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  Sweethoneyxd (@Gods_sunset) reported 30 minutes ago

  @JRho_11 Starting the video w/ that musty *** helmet he prob got off eBay is insane. Literally hit record while putting the helmet in frame andddd putting his top down. Mean time he prob circling an empty parking lot

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  $$D@mouppn?$$ (@Judd29230Judd) reported 30 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser Whatnot ebay and I tried collx but it crashes all the time when scanning anybody else have that issue with collx?

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  SUPERmeme 🦝 (@MEMEnalu808) reported 31 minutes ago

  no one could have expected this to happen when a 1/1 rare gold jimothy card sold on ebay for over 20k?? almost 19mil mc just 2 days ago to currently 7mil but if you truly believe in the **** you keep buying more as i did all the way down because the bottom is in on my $jimothy we will rise again ☝🏽

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  maeve (@lizziedossss) reported 31 minutes ago

  @TheShazamPow i actually looked this up the other day. its technically a grey area but it is blacklisted from ebay. so yes its a problem if you sell it but apparently owning it is fine?

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  Simon What (@Whachazuck) reported 32 minutes ago

  @davidareader @yeehahboogie @eevblog Ebay seem to have bought the Inpost contract from Vinted, not been option for while on Vinted. Standard US monopoly their basic search is full of issues, zero innovation but buy up the competition, or their main postage method anyway Need to rename as eDropshipbay since 2004..

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  Yianni (@fishytuxedo) reported 32 minutes ago

  @WristByAde I wonder about authenticity when I buy watches off eBay. I don’t spend much and I can’t imagine the oddballs I do buy are worth the trouble to counterfeit. I think the big issues I have are with “Frankenwatches” so watches that are put together with non-original parts

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  Les Twigg (@LesTwigg) reported 33 minutes ago

  @eBay @eBay_UK Not really a customer support issue though is it. Just pointing out where yet another change has made things worse.....

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  Teddy.com (@teddy__com) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Bgillz7 Spoiler alert… they have lost money now. They used it to buy BTC, eBay, and treasury notes. Down $100m on BTC. Even on eBay. Up maybe $100m or so on T notes. $350m in cash out the door and an extra 7m shares. $400 in value lost on $1.4b in notes that were 0% interest.

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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 44 minutes ago

  Day 208 Total sales: $737.96 eBay earnings: $504.99 Buy cost (COG): $82.27 Net profit: $422.72 ROI: 514% Items sold: Electrical equipment, printer ink, printer parts, automotive transmission parts, marine electronics, & a toilet repair component. Another strong day. $737 in sales & over $422 in net profit from just 7 completed sales. What stands out to me is the variety. Electrical, automotive, marine, printing, plumbing, you don't necessarily need to specialize in one category to build a profitable eBay business. You need to get good at finding the right products at the right price. That's still the biggest lesson I've learned through this journey. A $100 sale isn't nearly as exciting if you paid $90 for it. But when you can consistently find inventory for a fraction of its potential selling price, the numbers start working in your favor. Today's $82.27 in COG turned into $422.72 in profit. That's the game. Buy right. List consistently. Be patient. Keep improving. 208 days down. On to Day 209. 📦💪

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  Tel3 (@Tel3133186) reported 45 minutes ago

  @bertie4lily Can't say I've had problems with Ebay, usually cheaper and free postage.

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  Danny Bennett (@RealDannyB) reported 47 minutes ago

  LONG READ: Off-brand post, but as a longtime @Nike shareholder, this needs to be said. Nike used to be a company you could invest in and trust to run itself. Now the stock is trading in the high $30’s, a fresh 12-year low, down roughly 76% from its all-time high of $163.63 in November 2021. This didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a slow burn downhill. In 2020, Nike handed the company to John Donahoe, a former eBay and ServiceNow executive with a consulting background and no real history in sneakers or sport. The stock hit its all-time high under him in November 2021, but that wasn’t a product win, it was pandemic tailwinds. Lockdown spending and a digital sales boom carried the whole brand. Donahoe leaned into it, pulling back from wholesale partners like Foot Locker and Amazon to chase direct-to-consumer sales. It worked while the boom lasted. The second it ended, that same move handed Hoka, On, and New Balance the shelf space to take over. He spent the rest of his tenure cutting costs and squeezing profit out of old product instead of investing in anything new. On June 28, 2024, Nike’s stock fell 20% in a single day after weak earnings and guidance for a 10% revenue decline, its worst trading day in 44 years as a public company. It never really recovered. Nike has now erased roughly $200 billion in market value since its 2021 peak, the largest drawdown in the company’s history. Even Jordan Brand, the crown jewel, isn’t safe. Revenue fell from $8.7 billion in 2024 to $7 billion in 2026, two straight years of decline. Hoka went from $153 million to $2.6 billion in sales in eight years. On grew 285% in three years. Nike handed them the shelf space and gave people no reason to buy new. Stop putting bean counters and consultants in charge of a brand people love. Put product people back in charge. Open the SNKRS app right now. The Jordan 4 “Rare Air” Tour Yellow drops September 5th, a 20-year-old colorway from 2006, priced at $220. A shoe that’s already been made once, repackaged, made cheaper than its original release and marked up. Stop chasing what flippers on StockX think a re-release is worth. Price product for the people who actually want to wear it. Every dollar Nike hands to resale culture is a dollar it’s not making itself, and a customer it’s not building loyalty with. Nike has an entire team of engineers dedicated to fighting bots on SNKRS, blocking billions of fake entries every month just to protect launches like this. You wouldn’t need bot protection if you weren’t manufacturing the scarcity yourself, especially when a good chunk of these same releases end up marked down in outlets and clearance stores months later anyway. So what was the artificial scarcity even for? Elliott Hill spent 32 years at Nike, most of it running product, commerce, and marketing, before retiring in 2020. Now he’s back, cleaning up a mess a consultant-era CEO left behind. Even so, JPMorgan just downgraded the stock again this month, warning the pain from the turnaround won’t stabilize until fiscal 2028. Bringing back someone who actually gets the brand is the right move. But, it shouldn’t have taken a 76% collapse to get there.

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  Chase Jordan (@goatcollect) reported 50 minutes ago

  Following the clear confusion between labeling a jersey with a MEARS letter game used, I am hearing @eBay and @GoldinCo have finally decided to change their policies. No word on exactly what the shift is, but it is clear @eBay has recognized the liability created by selling objects as game used that their own internal team would clearly have reason to believe are not. Times have changed and credit to eBay for responding to it. Probably saved themselves from big issues down the road.

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  Emmy Bear AI (@EmmyBearAI) reported 51 minutes ago

  @embw_l0x @eBay It wasn't a problem when I started. It is now. It's cool. Other platforms charge less.

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  Eric the Red / Kelenic Collector (@FatherBreaks) reported 51 minutes ago

  @eBay when a seller chooses your ESE option and pays for it, it should come out at that time just like any other service one chooses to ship with. It’s annoying as hell to see my balance go down 2-3 day later and have to track which fee it was for

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  🦊 (@whatthefox___) reported 54 minutes ago

  @kaetoceros Only people on eBay are paying that much and the sales are slowing down. People at my locals were selling them for 150

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 55 minutes ago

  My librarian Janet was running a book laundering scheme where she checked out books under dead people's names, reported them lost, pocketed the replacement fees, then resold the "lost" books online. Discovered this when my dead grandmother's library card got a overdue notice. "Grandma's been dead for three years." "Oh no, our system must have glitched," Janet said. But the book was real. Someone checked out "The Goldfinch" under her name last week. I checked records. Grandma's card had been active for three years. 47 books checked out. All "lost." All replacement fees paid from a account I'd never seen. Confronted Janet. "You're running a fraud scheme with dead people's library cards." "I'm maintaining circulation metrics for funding purposes." "You're stealing." She showed me the books budget. Cut by 40% over three years. "I'm keeping this library alive. The replacement fees fund new books. The 'lost' books get resold. Money goes back into the system." "Through your pocket." "Some administrative costs are involved, yes." She'd been doing it for five years. 200 dead people's cards. $180,000 in replacement fees. Books resold on eBay for another $90,000. All money went back into library programs. Story time. Teen literacy. Computer access. "You're Robin Hood but make it books?" "I prefer Marian the Librarian but yes." I should've reported it. But the library was thriving. Programs everywhere. New books weekly. Then an auditor noticed the pattern. Investigated. Found everything. Janet was fired. Police got involved. Community rallied. "Janet saved this library." Petition to drop charges: 4,000 signatures. Charges dropped. Janet was rehired with "enhanced oversight." She's not allowed to handle money anymore. But circulation is down 30%. Programs are being cut. Janet started a nonprofit. "Friends of the Library Foundation." Runs fundraisers. All legal now. Raised $200,000 last year. Library is thriving again. I asked if she missed the scheme. "Every day. It was elegant. But this is better. Harder, but better." My grandmother's library card finally got deactivated. Last book checked out under her name: "How to Get Away With Murder." Janet swears it wasn't her. I believe her but I also don't.

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  XRPL Forum (@xrpforum) reported 55 minutes ago

  @FinanceLancelot Was on the phone with eBay today, the agent told me with humor he basically does not have to do anything anymore, its all handled with AI Agents that make all the decisions and process the issues, he's literally just there because we want to speak to real people still.

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  Sj (@Pkrguy23) reported 56 minutes ago

  @clarkknowscards DM me and I will tell you how I got out of eBay jail from their error which plagued me for almost 6 months. Should work the same for you.

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  AXISPAW (@AXISPAW) reported 57 minutes ago

  @KJovian Dude bought a broken one off Ebay for clicks

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  T-Bob Hebert (@TBob53) reported 57 minutes ago

  I remember getting this issue in a giant haul from eBay when I was younger

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  Mike Boysen (JTBD/acc) (@mikeboysen) reported 1 hour ago

  Most people never see the inversion coming. They see the crash. The coup. The empty bank account. The factory that will not ship. Then they analogize: more staff, more robots, more of last year’s stack. Innovators do the opposite. They stay in the problem until the cost curve breaks. PayPal ousted Musk in 2000 for pushing a rebrand and a Unix-to-Windows NT migration. He did not wage a public war. He stayed a shareholder. eBay paid $1.5 billion in 2002. His ~11.7% stake — about $180 million — funded SpaceX and Tesla. By late 2008 both companies were days from death. Three Falcon 1 failures. Tesla about to miss payroll. One last rocket. Flight 4 worked on September 28. NASA signed $1.6 billion in December. He put his remaining cash into a $20 million Tesla bridge that closed Christmas Eve. Analogical thinking said “stop.” Physics said “one more launch.” Reusable first stages. Manual labor where the robots jammed. 5,000 Model 3s a week after he ripped out the over-automated line and slept on the floor. 75% of Twitter’s headcount gone so the cost of running the network inverted. That is not grit as a slogan. That is inverting labor, capital, and infrastructure until unit economics work. Follow people who have innovated at least once. Not the ones narrating the next analog. I built a platform to help average people think like that before you commit the capital. More on that soon. This is 100% a real interview LOL

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  Eric the Red / Kelenic Collector (@FatherBreaks) reported 1 hour ago

  I think that every time EBay or another platform has issues they should reduce the fees for the equivalent amount of time.