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 (44%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Errors (18%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	9 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	15 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	23 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	1 day ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	2 days ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Squreek (@RockingHammster) reported 3 minutes ago

  @baalzamon35 Nah, ebay is terrible because mosty scalpers sell stuff there. I just pre-ordered her on proxy website (I want her bonus faceplate).

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  Daniel Lukiw (@TheNerdyDan) reported 4 minutes ago

  @OffDaHook35 I've actually started to get into the habit of sending my buyers pics of how I sent out the card.. this way they know any issues after it's sent to the authenticator is clearly on eBay themselves.

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  Jonathan 🥴 (@Baaj_La) reported 4 minutes ago

  @eBay @askebay It's still asking me to call customer care. That's not working for me

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  Johnny 🚀 Rocket (@JRocket465) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ChungusInvestor Sad that @ryancohen has time to shitpost & talk down to eBay execs & give his time to absolutely no name podcasts but doesn’t have time for his shareholders. Tells you all you need to know. Where’s the presentation RC. Wall Street plant, helping them unwind through dilution. $GME

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  Jasper 🌰@building BBX (@bbxjasper) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Barchart PayPal is the poster child for "great product, terrible stock." Everyone uses it, nobody wanted to hold it. The eBay spinoff hype set the top and it's been dead money ever since. Wide moat means nothing if growth stalls and the multiple keeps compressing.

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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 15 minutes ago

  A company with 30 employees made $1 billion a year. Not Google. Not Facebook. Craigslist. At its peak, revenue per employee was 10-20x Google's. The founder did everything "wrong": rejected billions from VCs, ran zero ads, and demoted himself to customer support. Then within 6 years, revenue crashed 70%+. Here’s the real story. • Started as a simple email list in 1995 by Craig Newmark, an IBM programmer. • Friends asked to post jobs and rentals. He built a bare-bones website — intentionally ugly, like a community bulletin board. • Zero marketing spend. Network effects did all the work. • In 1999, he made it a for-profit company but kept 99% free. Charged only for some job posts in a few cities. • In 2000, he stepped down as CEO to become a customer service rep. He didn't like managing people. • The result: ~30 employees, ~$1B annual revenue (reportedly, around 2018). For comparison, Google's per-employee revenue was ~$1.2M; Facebook's ~$1.6M. Craigslist's was $20-35M. • They rejected every opportunity to make more money. Every niche they dominated was later turned into a billion-dollar company by someone else: • Jobs → LinkedIn • Housing → Zillow • Goods → eBay, Facebook Marketplace • Then crises hit: • 2004: eBay bought 30% of Craigslist without founders' consent. Legal battle followed. Craigslist converted to an LLC to avoid shareholder profit demands. • 2009: "Craigslist killer" — a medical student used the site to commit murder. The adult services section, worth $36M/year, was shut down. • Mobile revolution: Craigslist stayed ugly and desktop-only. Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016, fully mobile, with real names. It surpassed 1 billion users by 2021. • Revenue reportedly dropped from ~$1B (2018) to ~$300M (2023). A 70% decline. The irony? The same principles that built Craigslist killed it: • 99% free → no money to modernize • No investment → no strategic pivot • Anti-commercial → picked apart by specialists Craig Newmark today lives in an apartment, owns no car, keeps pigeons. He's donated over $500M to journalism — the very industry his site helped destroy. This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of choices. You can live by your values and be comfortable. But markets don't wait. Craigslist's decline was a choice. Takeaway: If you don't evolve, you get eaten. Security and growth rarely coexist. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #Craigslist #BusinessLessons

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  @XVGWhale Backup Account (@DomainsVvs) reported 15 minutes ago

  There are people who take advantage of eBay’s 14 day return policy when it comes to #TCG /sports cards stuff. It’s profitable to just buy raw cards, digitally grade them, and return the cards that don’t grade well, and send in the best ones for grading. But it’s ****** up, as requires the seller to have to go to the post office the first time AND they have to pay the return shipping. eBay doesn’t give sellers the option of returns. It is the same issue I had when selling crypto mining rigs, even with $50k of sales, eBay always sided with the buyers(Bitcoin mining rigs are expensive right? Not when you just buy a $2.5k rig then return it after 14 days of overclocking it with third party firmware that overheats it till the heat syncs just fall of the hashboards. Though more unscrupulous scammers would litterally just rip out our working like new hashboards and replace them with broken spare parts before returning them. One person even listed our hash boards he ripped out of his unit before the refund request was granted. eBay granted them the refund and let them keep the stolen hashboards listed. At what point does eBay become legally liable for knowingly facilitating the sales of stolen goods? The answer to that is never, as we used macro photos, videos of packing, and stickers to show tampering and marked the hashboards with sharpie and photographed that to prove it was stolen, eBay knew the buyer stole our hashboards and let them sell them and let them get their refund and made us pay the return shipping- and sure enough, it came back with all broken hashboards, and eBay did not care). I’ve been researching the TCG space, as it fascinates me as a store of value. Satoshi is a Japanese name, and TCG (TCG = trading card games, specifically pokemon) was huge in Japan prior to US. Before Bitcoin, high value TCG cards could be used as a storage and transfer of money. Can stack of Pokemon cards worth $100k in a backpack and walk through security at an airport, but for some reason it’s problem if you bring $100k cash. Just saying, while I’m still all in crypto, I kinda appreciate TCG cards as being even more anonymous store of value than bitcoin. Pokemon has a longer track record of value growth than bitcoin, as it existed well before bitcoin. So while a smaller total market cap (billions not trillions), it’s sorta become a safer long term investment than most, as many products especially sealed products and first gen cards have outpaced both gold and the stock market overall. The Pokemon crowd thinks it’s a bubble, because they want to believe it is because they just like collecting cards and want to be able to afford the ones they want, but they sound exactly like people in 2015-2017 calling bitcoin a bubble. Imo take just one billionaire or 9 fig investor to double the market cap by buying up the floor(including the lower grade vintage ones and the less rare vintage ones, pop control isn’t the way to go to grow a market, buying up the floor is. Was only 10 million of the Pokemon English first edition cards printed, while today there’s 2 billion cards printed per year. There’s 21 million bitcoins. If the Pokemon crowd knew what was good for them, they’d start making that comparison to Bitcoin and argue that all first edition cards should have a floor of at least $1k(which is way way more realistic than the $100 XRP people. If every first edition card printed(even the ones torn and stuff) surpassed $100 each, it’d add less than $10b to the market cap. Seeing how collective crypto market caps added $10b of value many times in just an hour, it’s not even unrealistic.). Though the Pokemon crowd doesn’t promote it that way(they should, would be easy af for all them with a binder of mid condition first gen cards to get rich lol, they’re allergic to money though unfortunately). Anyways got off topic from the eBay issue. eBay really needs to fix that, they should make a device for sellers to scan cards and just stop allowing returns

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  Vivek Sen (@Vivek4real_) reported 16 minutes ago

  RYAN COHEN $GME MAKES HIS CASE FOR WHY HE'S THE BEST PERSON TO BUY EBAY. “THERE'S 11,500 EMPLOYEES. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. I COULD RUN THAT BUSINESS FROM MY HOUSE. IT'S EBAY." "IT LOOKS THE SAME AS IT DID IN 1995. IT DOESN'T NEED 11,500 EMPLOYEES.” “THEY'RE SPENDING $5.5 BILLION ON OPERATING EXPENSES... ON AN $11 BILLION BUSINESS THAT HAS NO INVENTORY AND IS ASSET LIGHT.” “I'M GOING TO PAY DOWN THE LEVERAGE. AND I'M GOING TO INCREASE EARNINGS.” RYAN'S FULL RESPONSE:

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  LakeFrontStreet (@LakeFrontStreet) reported 19 minutes ago

  @WeedVet I have over 19,000 positive feedback. Always sent priority mail with included insurance and done once delivered, unless they have issue. Seen eBay issue $200 refund buyer didn't like silver chain. Didn't take my money.. but refund his. Crazy.

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  Bid Sniper for eBay (@Myibidder) reported 21 minutes ago

  Most issues with eBay purchases can be resolved by contacting the seller via eBay messages, this is not the end of the world #MyibidderTips

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  angel - wnba era (@angelcircleclub) reported 23 minutes ago

  @keatonberriz my friend who got me into basketball is v open ab talking ab that stuff as an issue w the league and is done being a fan of a football team he rooted for bc they resigned sm1 w like 8 DV arrests & is selling his jerseys of the team on eBay + donating to DV shelters and I -

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  Prunaru 🇷🇴 (@MirceaPrunaru) reported 23 minutes ago

  @FullyOrange @mooreslawisdead Just wait for the crypto poors to dump the hardware on ebay because they lost all they have when the bitshit went down xD

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  **** Atic (@poonatic69) reported 27 minutes ago

  @idealideas Here is my hope. @ryancohen saying something like... "We see that eBay isn't willing to work with us, so we have asked Carl to help, and as a show of our partnership, gme has invested in 35m shares of IEP, and on top of that, I have personally acquired 35m shares of IEP, now let's go after eBay together." My penis would explode. I would need MOASS money to then fix my penis.

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  Glen (@Glen64277198) reported 27 minutes ago

  @eBay @landondonovan @JackWilshere Seller account issue. Chargeback dispute handling problem. Frontline support provided conflicting information about an appeal. Requesting escalation to Seller Protection/Payments team. I can provide case details privately.

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  The Really Bad Golfer (@therlybadglfer) reported 28 minutes ago

  @CardsMax 101% of the time it is the principle of the thing - you are unpacking and repacking a card you are in charge of it. It is at least 50% of your job to repack it securely. It is probably .00001 cents of tape to seal the holder at the top vs. just sealing the team bag. It is not reasonable that they do not fix it. The perception it creates is unaceptable and eBay should know this.

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  ZD1908 (@ZDi____) reported 28 minutes ago

  The problem with art comms is that the market's essentially the wild west: Google Maps lets me see reviews for establishments; Amazon and eBay also for products. But no centralized marketplace for artists. It's all word of mouth or experimentation.

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  conor (@Cdawg9530) reported 29 minutes ago

  @eBay That’s not working for me so can someone help here

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Xeloris1 Fair point on the current market cap, GME has been dragged down partly by the arb short pressure and deal uncertainty, sitting closer to $9-10B right now. The $12B figure was the pre-bid reference point from when the offer was first announced in May. On the VWAP question, yes, the actual exchange ratio in a stock-for-stock leg of a deal like this is typically set based on a VWAP collar, usually a 10, 20 or 30-day VWAP around signing or a fixed ratio with a walk-away collar. So if GME's share price stays depressed, eBay holders negotiating the stock leg would demand either more GME shares per eBay share, a tighter collar, or a higher cash mix to compensate. That actually makes the current GME weakness interesting. If the deal prices the stock leg off a depressed VWAP, GME issues more shares to cover the $27-28B equity leg, which dilutes legacy GME holders below the 30% figure. But if GME's price recovers before the exchange ratio is locked, legacy holders retain more of NewCo. So the 30% is a snapshot at $12B. At $10B it probably slides toward 26-27% of NewCo on the same math, and the path back toward mid-30s% on economic look-through gets a little longer. The thesis is the same, the entry point is just more sensitive to where the VWAP lands at signing.

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  Kris Watson (@StarQuestEntert) reported 33 minutes ago

  @QE4Everyone Johnnysan knows you can wire an old sound recorder to pick up sound clear down the street. It's all in how you wore the projects. Johnmysan lives in area 51 and used me to sell stuff on eBay and escape taxes B's or fears of eBay he had himself. I don't have to kill johnnysan but

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  Orion (@0xOrionVega) reported 33 minutes ago

  Do you actually understand what's happening. While everyone is arguing about API pricing, this guy soldered his own AI server together, plugged it into the wall, and turned it into a $22,000/month retainer. Not a rack. Not a rented GPU. A custom loop, a used EPYC, two H100s off eBay, and a case he cut himself. Boots in 40 seconds. Runs six models. Answers to nobody. He spent three days building the first agent. An accounts-payable bot that reads inbound invoices, matches them to POs, flags mismatches, drafts the approval email, and closes the loop in the client's ERP. Zero SaaS in the stack. All local, all his. Then he recorded a 90-second Loom. Sent it to one CFO he'd met once. She signed the same week. The second one came from her introduction. The third from LinkedIn. The fourth just asked. 7 clients. Each paying $2,750/month. Each replacing a $18,000-a-month back office line item. They don't cancel. Cancelling costs them $15,000 the next morning. $22,000 a month. Built on a box in his garage. Owned outright. Zero recurring cost except the electric bill. Everyone else is still refreshing the OpenAI pricing page.

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  Macro Alpha (@MacroAlphaHQ) reported 43 minutes ago

  Ryan Cohen is out here pitching himself to buy eBay and fire its 11,500 employees. retail is already treating this like a confirmed masterstroke for $GME. let me just work out the actual debt mechanics of swallowing a legacy tech giant today. you cant just tweet a buyout into existence. to take a public company private you need Wall Street to syndicate the debt. actually wait, he does have that cash pile he built by diluting his own apes. but even that isnt enough to take down a target this size without a massive external loan. here is the exact chain for how this dies. you pitch the LBO to the banks. they calculate the debt service against current overnight funding costs. they stress test the cash flow of a global marketplace supposedly run by one guy from his house. then the credit desk denies the paper because the cost of capital is simply too high to fund a meme. retail holding GME calls expecting a massive M&A catalyst here is positioned completely wrong and will just bleed out to theta. credit markets dont care about your 1995 nostalgia.

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  Glen (@Glen64277198) reported 44 minutes ago

  @eBay Seller account issue. Chargeback dispute handling problem. Frontline support provided conflicting information about an appeal. Requesting escalation to Seller Protection/Payments team. I can provide case details privately.

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  Norm D Plum (@123db_GEEK) reported 47 minutes ago

  eBay is fundamentally broken. I just don't seem to be able to sell my car. People bid, they win, they find where the car is, they decide they are ill or stupid or just corrupt and ghost the sale process and I have to cancel and start again. This will be the 5th listing.

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  Smooth Corners (@smoothcorners) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Get_BIG_Cards @eBay @eddiemcpigskin No issues myself so far 🤞

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  Deano... (@Frugal_ways) reported 50 minutes ago

  Ebay - similar issues - screen layout won't fit the browser window and certain buttons won't respond when pressed, pictures not displaying, etc. Hardly a ringing endorsement for your websites is it.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 52 minutes ago

  Multi-marketplace sellers waste hours manually tracking competitor prices across Amazon, eBay, Walmart — and by the time they notice, the window is gone. Built PriceRover AI to fix that.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 52 minutes ago

  Watching competitors' prices all day is a terrible use of your time. Built PricingPilot to do it for you — an autonomous AI that crawls Amazon, eBay, and Shopify, then reprices your products the moment a margin window opens. Price floors, MAP enforcement, continuous learning.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 56 minutes ago

  Small sellers spend hours manually tracking competitors. Hours they don't have. Built CompeteIQ to fix that — an autonomous agent that monitors pricing, stock, and reviews across Amazon, eBay, and Google Shopping 24/7, then delivers pricing moves in real time.

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  Scott Sleepy (@scott_sleepy) reported 56 minutes ago

  I’m putting these thoughts down in the middle of the potential eBay bid because I do think Chewy has a role to play. Maybe it’s soon, maybe it’s a year from now, but I do think chewy is integral in helping blow up the basket. The Teddy books emphasized it way too hard.

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  Investor Gadget 🕵️‍♂️🧬📈 (@1nvestorGadget) reported 60 minutes ago

  @GriffeySuper @1Cash28 Terrible and at best if we report eBay bans account but they open a new one