eBay status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of eBay reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

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

• Website Down (50%)
• Sign in (31%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Coatesville	Errors	2 hours ago
Ashburn	Website Down	2 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	3 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	8 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	9 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	14 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  John Carletto (@jcarletto27) reported 26 seconds ago

  @PayPal My paypal account of 18 years was permanently blocked this morning, with no reason given. Your support staff has been less than helpful. I use paypal every week for automated payments, Apple, Google play, and Ebay purchases. I have not broken your TOS.

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  Commodore International Historical Society (@commodoreihs) reported 2 minutes ago

  I snagged this Commodore 620 off eBay recently because it was an interesting piece. First, I have to thank my friend Steve Gray for providing background information to me on CBM-II model numbers, because I manage to screw them up every time. The Commodore 620 was the European market version of the North American B256. It's the low profile CBM-II model with 256K RAM. This one, despite being the European model 620, seems to have been modified for the North American market, as the PSU was converted to 117VAC. You can see on the serial sticker that there's a 117V sticker on top of the original serial sticker. Given that it's the same color and style, I'm guessing Commodore modified this, not a consumer. It's serial 00031, which is a low serial, but the chip date codes range from 2182 to 2983 (May 1982 - July 1983). It's in generally working condition, and it boots to the native boot screen saying, "commodore basic 256, v4.2". I have a line on a replacement keyboard, so the missing keys won't be a problem.

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  Ryan Stadler (@RyanStadler79) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TraxMarketplace @CardsMax Again, not even with any foreign buyer issues, I will do the math you are presenting. 72500 × 2.5% = 1812.50 72500 x 3.2% = 2320 1812.50 + 2320 = 4132.50 So 2xs+ what he was charged on eBay... May not want to use this example ro sell the site.

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  Kong (@K1n9_Kon9) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CNBC since $GME is down on $EBAY rejection and ebay is up it means the deal with move forward whether ebay csuite wants it or not gg.

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  Poor_Vida 💣💥 (@johnny_glue) reported 17 minutes ago

  @MemeStockMillyz The thing that is so weird to me, is that not only was there an EBAY tab on Gamestops Investor Relations page BEFORE ebay even responded to the offer. But, its still there. You would think they would have taken it down by now

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  Steve George 🇳🇿⚖️🎬🏉 (@LegalBeagleOK) reported 17 minutes ago

  @justin_2005 It’s great, isn’t it? That’s one I had to hunt down from eBay! 🦖🦖

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  Jason (@jtingyyy) reported 18 minutes ago

  Booted up the old kindle I got off eBay cause work is so slow. Started reading kitchen confidential by Anthony bourdain

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  Greg (@Greg13868007) reported 24 minutes ago

  @AMCbiggums Meanwhile #GME is long EBAY and making money on that. Could be a massive squeeze in GME if this ends up not working out!

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  Macro Bombastic (@MacroBombastic) reported 24 minutes ago

  @unusual_whales Bro, eBay needs to be taken down a peg or two. Ryan's got the vision, time will tell if they can execute it.

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  MD (@MorgenHatton) reported 27 minutes ago

  If GameStop proves authenticated live commerce works at scale… eBay suddenly looks old. Not dead.
Not irrelevant. Just slow. And slow companies get disrupted.

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 28 minutes ago

  Cohen’s conviction on this point is deeply personal. In a recent interview, he highlighted this exact vulnerability, detailing his own experience as an everyday eBay consumer. He revealed that he made multiple purchases on the platform—specifically digital items for his son—that turned out to be fraudulently advertised, forcing him to undergo the friction of initiating chargebacks. Expressing outright disbelief, he openly questioned how a major marketplace could allow such basic operational failures to persist. For a CEO obsessed with customer delight, that experience highlights a critical, systemic failure in digital trust. It also serves as the perfect pivot to the darker side of the thesis: if simple consumer fraud is this prevalent and unmanaged, what else is hiding in the system? The Forensic Risk Layer: The "Ghost Architecture" Hypothesis The public-facing thesis is purely operational: modernize eBay, optimize logistics, and restore trust. But given Cohen's own encounters with platform fraud, a serious acquisition of eBay necessitates a deep forensic audit. This introduces the risk layer. The following is a hypothesis, not an allegation: eBay’s protracted stagnation may have allowed hidden inefficiencies, synthetic activity, ghost accounts, or non-economic transaction patterns to calcify within the marketplace. These anomalies are rarely visible through headline revenue, Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV), or active-user metrics. Uncovering them requires bottom-up telemetry analysis. A marketplace can appear healthy on the surface while actively harboring volume that is low-quality, non-repeatable, artificially inflated, or entirely disconnected from physical commerce. If Cohen’s team is executing due diligence, they are likely scrutinizing the relationship between reported transactions and physical reality: inventory movement, shipping integrity, buyer-seller linkage, tracking reuse, account clustering, and authentication failure rates. The foundational question is simple: How much of eBay’s marketplace activity is real, durable, physical commerce? The NGO Laundering & "Fees as a Service" Hypothesis One forensic risk scenario involves the exploitation of marketplace infrastructure for non-traditional capital flows. Under this theory, certain accounts might utilize eBay-style transactions not to trade goods, but to generate legitimate-looking payment records and move capital. This could hypothetically involve shell entities, offshore actors, or coordinated account networks. The entity's label is irrelevant; the core issue is whether the transaction possesses actual economic substance. The model is straightforward: 1. A controlled buyer account purchases a high-value, vaguely described item from a controlled seller account. 2. Little to no meaningful physical inventory changes hands (shipping may be recycled, unverifiable, or minimal). 3. The payment clears through the marketplace, the seller receives an e-commerce payout, and the platform collects its final value fee. 4. The transaction secures a pristine digital paper trail. In this scenario, the marketplace unwittingly becomes a fee-based transaction wrapper. The ghost seller sacrifices normal retail profit margins to acquire the transaction record. For the platform, this activity inflates GMV, transaction volume, and fee revenue. But the revenue quality is entirely hollow. Due Diligence and the "Skeletons" Risk GameStop would not simply be buying eBay’s reported numbers; it would be buying the quality of those numbers. A rigorous due diligence process would demand deterministic telemetry analysis. Key audit questions would likely include: Are active-user metrics inflated by ghost accounts? Are there unusual, circular buyer-seller loops? Are there transaction clusters with weak evidence of physical goods movement? Are specific categories producing high fee revenue but low physical verification?

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  TME Doomsday (@TME_Doomsday) reported 34 minutes ago

  @xMarketNews The people against GME & their holders are pumping into EBAY to make the buy impossible.. so holders lose faith and sell, which in turn lowers the stock, driving the nail further. This is the slow GME death they were looking for, and RC gave it to them on a silver platter.

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  Killa Koyote (@KoyoteKilla) reported 36 minutes ago

  @tm1515152005 If selling a card for under $20, use eBay Standard Shipping. It costs around $1 to $2. You are insured up to $20 if anything happens to the card. There are a lot of issues with tracking these, they typically say "delivered" a few days earlier, and buyers become confused.

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  Roman Pioneer (@renoipgp) reported 36 minutes ago

  For accounts with limited seller history, fewer than 25 completed sales, or no prior successful sales in sports memorabilia/autographs, @eBay should apply a separate category exposure limit to auction-style listings in high-risk memorabilia categories. This should not be a simple account-wide dollar limit. It should be based on the combination of: account age; seller feedback count; prior sales in the same category; number of active memorabilia listings; auction format; use of high-risk athlete names; use of third-party COA keywords; starting price far below expected market value; multiple similar jerseys or signed items listed in a short window. The rule should not stop a normal low-history seller from listing one inherited signed jersey. It should stop an account with no meaningful memorabilia history from listing ten Tom Brady / Michael Jordan / Ohtani / Messi-style memorabilia auctions while also keeping a cheap notebook active as a low-risk account signal. For collectors, there is not a perfect manual defense here. A buyer can avoid obvious low-history seller red flags and run certificate numbers through @CheckCOA , but the better fix has to happen at the platform-risk level.

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  Chris Sommers (@ChrisSommers79) reported 37 minutes ago

  @EconomPic No they can simply issue ebay 90% of the shares. Doesn’t require raising more equity capital Cohen doesn’t care because: A) he gets to be ceo of newco B) he has a different incentive package

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 37 minutes ago

  You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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  Cyber Samurai (@_hustleandgrow) reported 39 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK @eBay you need fire whoever is running your websites. Total shambles, total fraud. Your website is down, your app is down. Dog ****. Your shareholders should sue you all.

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  Abused Poet (@AbusedPoet) reported 39 minutes ago

  @eBay Seriously, **** you. Die slow ebay. Die slow, and suck my **** while you're doing it

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  Wandering Capitalist (@Venturinglist) reported 40 minutes ago

  @EconomPic @LarissaMVLopez She’s saying good management has value. EBay management had no problem selling at $79 but doesn’t want shareholders to get $125. According to the proposal all eBay shareholders will have the option to sell their shares for an additional $62 AFTER the $62 in cash.

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  GME69696969 (@gme696969) reported 40 minutes ago

  @rnewton7777 Im hoping we have big Swap cycle around the corner. DFV back on sunday. Gamestop pumps. Then issue 9% Stake in ebay. Warrants itm. All goes up.

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  DownSouth TCG (@downsouthtcg) reported 41 minutes ago

  eBay said sit down lil bro

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  Pete Bronson, CPA, CA (@rantsofmich) reported 41 minutes ago

  @MattxH @Coach_Swales @Stonkfather2021 This is terrible financial advice, please don't follow this anyone. Standard arbitrage is short the acquirer, long the target. Hence why eBay is up and GME down. If you buy eBay your upside is limited if deal does go through and downside is massive if it doesn't.

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  AMERICA1STGUY (@America1Bobby) reported 44 minutes ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen Ebay is a terrible company it absolutely takes advantage of sellers and allows 1000s of phony products to be sold. I have spoken to insiders and they said it's insane what really goes on within the company. I would not be surprised if some big news comes out about them.

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  Nathan Snyder (@ANateForFate) reported 48 minutes ago

  DC Universe doesn't have every single issue of Superman in existence. What if I'm in the mood to read the Bronze Age? What if the comic stores I go to have none of the issues I want? And if they're on eBay yet crazy expensive, what do you want to do then?

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  Vlad Green (@VladislavGreene) reported 49 minutes ago

  $GME My 2 cents about GME buying eBay. 50% cash 50% stock. If GME market cap $10B and Ebay's $40B, so it's 20/80 split, but as GME pays out 50% cash it bring us to 80/2 = 40%, so in the end 60/40. 60% GME shareholders and 40% eBay's in the new company. The stock portion is $27.75B (half of the $125 offer). Case 1 (basic): GME has 450000000 shares outstanding. To keep the 60/40 split GME need to issue 300000000 new shares to the eBay shareholders. $27.75B / 300000000 = $92.50 implied issuance price. Total after deal = 750000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price after deal = $92.50. Case 2 (diluted): Including the 144000000 Senior Convertible Notes + 59000000 Warrants = 651000000 total GME fully diluted shares. To keep the same 60/40 split GME needs to issue 434000000 new shares to eBay's people. $27.75B / 434000000 = ~$63.94 implied issuance price. Total after = 1085000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price = ~$63.94.

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  John Hickelmeyer (@JHickelmeyer) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AzzyDesignWorks I wouldn't doubt the artificial shortages at all. My manifolds cracked (common issue) took nearly 8 months for the dealer to get the parts. I could have bought them on ebay the next day but I wasn't paying for the parts.

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  Trendzone (@Trendzonebro) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AustinTobitt The only problem I see is the current valuation between ebay and gme. If we take out the cash, the market is pricing GME at 1-2 billion. GME's valuation doesn't seem fair for GME holders compared to ATH with premium for Ebay. It looks like GME holders will lose vs ebay holders.

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  J (@Jscoopytrades) reported 52 minutes ago

  @RealSimpleAriel Staying cautious with tech for sure. Caught a nice scalp to the down side on mnq to help the bleeding some of my longs. GS and EBAY look good. Hoping XLF can push higher.

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  jikkyuu but dc ❤️💙❤️ (@existentialitch) reported 53 minutes ago

  and don't get me started on availability of older issues. i would love to send dc 100+ bucks i have to pay to some dude on ebay for tpbs of my favourite runs BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE. it's crazy. idk how i'd be able to get into those stories without piracy.

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  Ecomint NEWS (@ecomintnews) reported 54 minutes ago

  🚨 DEVELOPING: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Escalates eBay Takeover Battle 🚨 ​Following the rejection of his $56 billion unsolicited bid, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is doubling down. In a formal letter to the eBay board, Cohen demanded that shareholders be given the final word on the $125-per-share cash-and-stock proposal. ​The bid, which eBay dismissed as "neither credible nor attractive," represents a significant premium over recent trading prices.