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 (61%)
• Sign in (23%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	2 hours ago
Melbourne	Website Down	7 hours ago
Baltimore	Errors	13 hours ago
Sunnyvale	Errors	13 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	14 hours ago
Schleswig	Sign in	15 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Karlow (@karlowalpha) reported 6 minutes ago

  You are handed an envelope and told to write down the most you would pay for a broadcasting license. Highest number wins. But the winner does not pay their own number. They pay the second-highest one. Name your price. Most people shade down. They write less than they would really pay, because that is what you do in an auction. You protect yourself from overpaying. That instinct is provably wrong here. Under these rules your bid never sets your price. It only decides whether you win. Writing anything below your true maximum can only lose you a deal you wanted. Honesty is not a virtue in this auction. It is the dominant strategy. An economist proved that in 1961. His name was William Vickrey. New Zealand actually ran it. In 1990 the government sold radio spectrum this way with no reserve prices. On one license the winning bid was NZ$100,000. The price paid was NZ$6. On another the winner bid NZ$7 million and paid NZ$5,000. The sale was projected to raise NZ$250 million. It raised NZ$36 million. The country decided the theory was insane. The country was wrong about which part failed. Every bid was honest and every license went to whoever wanted it most, exactly as designed. The money vanished because there were no reserve prices and ten near-identical licenses were sold in parallel, so the second-highest bid on any one of them could be almost nothing. Then the bids were published and everyone saw a company that would have paid NZ$100,000 hand over NZ$6. That is the real scandal. Not the money. The visibility. Vickrey won the Nobel for this work in October 1996. He was dead three days later. The mechanism did not stay in New Zealand. It is why eBay asks for your maximum instead of your bid. The price was never set by how badly you wanted the thing. It was set by the second-most-eager person in the room, and you have spent your whole life negotiating as if that were not true.

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  Richard Fitch (@Sweetfitchie) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser How many cards are being sent now at $80? I doubt everyone will stop. Plus ebay showed me a 49.99 grade with psa offer on a card i was looking at so some people are probably using that. This could be the new model. Prices may never come back down.

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  𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕕 / 𝕝𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕔 💜♥️💚 purples lover (@purpofsecurity_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @toppatmin @astrrrx i just looked at ebay in hopes of finding anything on there but no😭 why did they take the store down i need that ******* amongi rhm poster

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  Jonathan Fairbourne (@JonFairbourne) reported 15 minutes ago

  @StonksMae Problem is everyone is confused and there is no clear direction. Buying eBay or no? CEO unpaid or getting 35B? More dilution coming? Bonds being converted or not? Too much uncertainty

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  Darren *Ego Brianiac* Richardson (@S0UNDK1LLAH66) reported 16 minutes ago

  @The_Top_Loader Your only problem with Snes controllers is the plastic decaying or the seals in the D-pad & buttons vapourising. Even those, eBay will accommodate you.

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  Amal (@lamamals) reported 17 minutes ago

  The masses were hurling rocks at their leaders when one of the protesters realized he could make a living off them instead. He gathered every stone he could find and went home to list them on eBay as “ROCKS OF WAR.” The listing was taken down at the leaders’ command, and he found himself back on the battlefield, with the same worthless rocks. 'Just a Rock', available as part of the Match Boxes collection. Reserve: 0.026e

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  Doc Hollywood (@OGDocHollywood) reported 18 minutes ago

  GameStop $GME shares their preliminary Q2 earnings - Net sales: $780M to $800M, down from $972.2M - Operating income: $150M to $170M, up from $66.4M - Net income: $290M to $310M, up from $168.6M - Cash and marketable securities: $5.050B to $5.070B, down from $8.694B During the quarter they converted their eBay derivative position into a straight equity stake. As of August 1 they held about 43.4 million shares of eBay, worth roughly $4.947 billion. Sales fell about 19%. Management gave three reasons: last year had the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, they closed stores on purpose, and they sold off the France business. Sales dropped almost $200 million and operating income still MORE THAN DOUBLED. Net income of roughly $300 million against operating income of roughly $160 million is not from selling games. About $238 million of it came from gains on the eBay derivative and equity position, and that was partly offset by about a $75 million loss on digital assets and related receivables. Currently up 3% in premarket $18.46

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  Mr Hankey (@hivanchi) reported 19 minutes ago

  @eBay and sellers game the feedback removal. Removed negative feedback that was left after legitimate issue with an order.

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  ☆ (@LucilleFilm) reported 21 minutes ago

  @drivenbyfilms ppl are saying the screener was for an already released film but even then, this could still get him in trouble. there's a reason why ebay listings don't go up until months after release and awards szn.

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  GamerTex (@GamerTex) reported 22 minutes ago

  Adam Gray on YT was talking about fake patches today going back to 2007. According to Upper Deck they have staff on hand now that saw it happen in 2001!! Personally I think the current UD story is BS as this is the 3rd time they have changed the story on this card but they did say it recently. The latest UD version is someone pulled one of the first Kobe Patch cards and immediately swapped it into this card and they have someone on staff that remembers them doing it in 2001 ish. In 1999 UD told me about this specific card and another patch card when I asked them what the future of patch card looked like. They instead told me about the best and worst Patches they had seen so far while they were testing. I ran a cron job from my GameJersey server to search ebay and the newsgroups for these cards. A few years later I found this card on eBay from a highly rated seller that sold boxes and cases and, at the time, a rather large Kobe collection. I inquired and they said it was a gift from UD to someone who had passed. Around 2012 I had to call UDA about the first 1 of 1 Game Jersey card ever made because it didnt show up with their online verification and has a phone number to verify. After doing that I inquired about this card and after a few transfers I was told that my card was a fake and they were floating around the past few months. I assured them mine had providence and was in my collection for years at this point. They shrugged and said they didnt have anything further to add.

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  Gavin Forsyth (@Gavin4syth) reported 22 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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  C-Vince (@cvinceg) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Keymaster333 I guess Path of Radiance went down in price because that’s about what I paid for it In 2020 and this was won on an eBay auction

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  Card Shop Guys Podcast (@Card_Shop_Guys) reported 25 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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  Allyson 🪷 Bento (@NoSurrender_87) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Jtsbae69 I started using eBay in college & stick with that since I’ve built reviews. Starting fresh, I’d go down a Reddit rabbit hole, there are so many damn options now. See what sounds best. Make sure whatever you go with has seller protections!

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  Just Looking By The Way (@JustLooking_BTW) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ChevanceLo1 @TrevorAllenMD @YugiMuto91 Literally just takes a eBay listing & dropping it off at an ups or etc. to sell this thing, like you can’t be this slow to think winning the tournament was what he was referring too

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  Jared Bray (@tresamigos858) reported 31 minutes ago

  @KyngDid Even that breaks down to math too. If a table cost is $150 that’s 10% of $1500 in sales. Even selling at 100% of comps comes with a cost (and depending on how much you sell could be far more or far less than eBay)

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  Florida Sports Card Haven (@flasprtscardhvn) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Gbpoker0710 Thanks man.. I sure hope not. Hope just emptying the stomach and going home tomorrow. Shut my ebay down for 2 weeks just in case. 👊

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  Nick Dodd (@nickdodd) reported 35 minutes ago

  @GeniusGTX ...and now you can buy Tesla V100s for $200/ea on eBay. 8 for $1600, another $1600 for a 4U rack server (with 128GB ram, 2x20-core CPUs, etc). $3200 and you can build a 128GB GPU server roughly equal to the DGX1.

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  Fitzzzy 🏴‍☠️ (@ShaunFitzzzy) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Psycho0111 It all comes down to if there is any material info out there. With everything around eBay it might be hard to get around the safe harbor laws Also, I’m not sure if the pre earnings release counts, we get the full thing next week

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  ❤️𝖙𝖆𝖝𝖎 // 𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖞🖤 VTuber (@taximalsVT) reported 42 minutes ago

  one of these ace attorney pachislo showed up on ebay years back (pre covid) and i honestly almost bought it the only thing that stopped me is i would have no idea how to fix it if it broke

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  The Real Tony G (@NoFlipNoFuture) reported 43 minutes ago

  I like how this individual says: "We have been having authenticity issues on Ebay." As the buyer or the seller? Verify my product or theirs? It sure seems like he or she is trying to get me to play Ansel Adams for their own motivations... Which, by the way, is a pretty good idea! (If you're a scammer, and lack all that critical packaging). Next time, maybe ask three legit sellers for two pictures each?

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  THE MINUTEMAN FILES: (@Wefactcheckedit) reported 45 minutes ago

  Ban all foreign sellers on eBay and amazon and hundreds of other websites across America ban them all or shut down the website if they refuse and put American seller first. These sites have become third world flea markets online blocking Americans from selling

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  BigboyJuju (@BigboyJuju) reported 46 minutes ago

  GameStop just amended the convertible-note exchange. They were going to pay the whole $1.4B in stock, using a 35-day average price. Today they cut that short. Noteholders now get about 55.5 million GME shares and about $358 million in cash. That’s 55.5 million new shares going to the funds that held the 2030 and 2032 notes - not a public offering. They also dropped preliminary Q2 numbers in the same filing: 👉 sales down versus last year’s Switch 2 quarter 👉 operating profit up 👉 cash now in the $5.05–5.07B range after they converted the eBay position into about 43.4 million actual eBay shares September 3rd is the date to watch. That’s when this is slated to close. 👀 cc: @gamestop @ryancohen @TheRoaringKitty $GME

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  Tel3 (@Tel3133186) reported 49 minutes ago

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

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  Ratchlock in the Rain ⛈️🥀 (@DamnitKnightly) reported 49 minutes ago

  @boomboomfaia Yeah we had to turn off shipping TO the EU because of LUCID and the new PPWR rulings (US based issue for Etsy/Ebay) But I do believe acggoods does handle most of that since they are the ones producing and shipping the items. Only thing is the tariffs but that is customer based

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  NVSportsCards (@NVSportsCards) reported 50 minutes ago

  @CardsMax If Comc didn’t take 6 months to process or ship, they could have caused real problems for ebay.

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  Han Akamatsu 赤松 (@Han_Akamatsu) reported 52 minutes ago

  $GME GameStop’s preliminary Q2 FY2026 numbers are out: 1) So revenue looks ugly at first glance, down roughly 18–20% YoY. But GameStop specifically attributes that to the prior year Nintendo Switch 2 launch, planned store closures, and divesting its French operations. 2) The much more interesting number is operating income. They’re expecting $150–170M versus $66.4M last year, meaning operating profit has more than doubled despite materially lower revenue. 3) There’s an important caveat with that $290/310M net income, though. It isn’t all coming from GameStop’s underlying retail business. GameStop says Q2 includes approximately: +$238M net gains related to its eBay derivative/equity investment −$75M loss on digital assets and related receivables. So we shouldn’t look at $300M net income and conclude the core business suddenly generated $300M. 4) And that huge decline from $8.694B → $5.06B cash/securities isn’t simply GameStop burning $3.6B. A major reason is that GameStop converted its eBay derivative exposure into direct eBay equity, which moves those assets out of the cash/cash-equivalents/marketable-securities bucket shown here. 5) The most important number here is the operating income of $150–170M, on only $780–800M revenue. At the midpoint, that’s roughly: $160M / $790M = 20.3% operating margin. Versus: $66.4M / $972.2M = 6.8% last year. That’s a massive margin expansion. That operating income jump is arguably the strongest part of these prelims. Full Q2 results are currently scheduled for September 8. *TLDR: Revenue ↓ -19% Operating income ↑ +141% Net income ↑ +78% Operating margin 6.8% → 20%

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  The Really Bad Golfer (@therlybadglfer) reported 58 minutes ago

  @eBay why do you allow terrible people like this on your platform? He replies to feedback with threats and stalking (when I ran a background check), brings in users family's (you have a 10 year old), deflects any blame or responsibility, and it just horrible. You should kick him off the platform.

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  yolanda j smith-bond (@yolandajsmmqc) reported 1 hour 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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  Ayush Patel (@ayushp81) reported 1 hour ago

  @clairevo @bot My @Bot use case: set it loose on my garage of dead electronics. It IDs every model, digs up repair guides and parts, checks eBay prices, and hands me a 'fix or sell' list. A second bot lists the sell pile. My junk drawer becomes a side hustle while I sleep