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
Besançon	Website Down	1 hour ago
Preston	Website Down	2 hours ago
Andernach	Website Down	3 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	7 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	8 hours ago
Cheltenham	Sign in	12 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  PGP (@PGP_NEWS) reported 3 minutes ago

  @unusual_whales Ryan Cohen’s analogy is a sharp critique of corporate bloat. Comparing a massive tech platform like eBay to being obese highlights the growing demand for lean efficient operations in the 2026 market. It is a bold take on why some legacy companies struggle to innovate while staying weighed down by their own size.

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  Malcolm (@THE_MILK_M4N) reported 5 minutes ago

  @trvsrdrgz2 The funny part is that the economy is not going to slow its going to damn near die. Ebay will be free at that point.

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  Aglia (@224osk) reported 7 minutes ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen This feels like when adam aron bought hymc, they moved the flow of capital away from amc into hymc. So what will happen here is gme to 15 bucks and ebay to 125+ meanwhile gme will continue down to poverty levels but ceo walks with billions.

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  Killa Koyote (@KoyoteKilla) reported 10 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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  Kong (@K1n9_Kon9) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Han_Akamatsu except $EBAY since its up when $GME is down after declining offer it likely means deal is going through or they now want to keep prices elevated just in case to keep GME from buying for cheaper. even though ebay isn't worth 125

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  James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) reported 13 minutes ago

  If Ryan Cohen were actually offering eBay shareholders $125 a share in cash, the board would obviously take that offer seriously. He's not. He's offering $62.50 a share in cash, and the rest in watered-down, overpriced GameStop stock, which he wants eBay shareholder to trade their shares for. It's a ridiculous offer, which eBay's board correctly rejected.

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  Knorr (@Lord_Knorr) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CartersCorner21 @WSJ What? GME's board is full of slackers. Revenue is down 60% since 2017 and it's dying a slow, painful and brutal death. Ebay doesn't need Cohen, Cohen needs Ebay or some pivot cuz that revenue be shrinking.

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  ZENturio 👻🪖 (@ZNturio) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Stonkfather2021 @KeZoo44 @grok You point is they don’t believe in the company, yet they keep majority of stocks. And of course I want the CEO to be paid in stocks. For eBay shareholders that works well looking at +100% over last 5 years vs. gme stock price down 50% same timeframe.

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  Swami (@SwamiKnows_) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ScotDow238 These are arbitrage plays - You can buy 1 share of eBay now, you'll get $62.50 in cash and $62.50 in GME shares (just using previous deal structure). That's like 3 shares of GME give or take a half share. You short 3 shares of GME. So you are delta neutral on the trade (3 shares shorted directly, you're receiving 3 shares upon closure) and you're receiving $62.50 in cash for each share of eBay you arbitrage off of. It's not going long or short but just trying to profit off the spread created by the market being inefficient. There's of course downside if the deal collapses, i.e. eBay's price goes down and GME's price rises significantly - then you might be taking a big loss. HF's play this game all day with every instrument under the sun. They are rarely purely long or purely short.

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  WhenItRainsItPours (@chadRAINS) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Silent__92 @BoilerPaulie Hey **** face. We’ve all seen what’s happening with eBay. It’s dying a slow death because it’s being milked by these parasites. I’m old enough to remember the glory days of eBay, so please go **** yourself.

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  Limp Henry 📢🐟 (@IiiLimpet) reported 24 minutes ago

  @alphaquantus @StockRetail So? That’s a RC problem not a EBay problem.

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  SaugyWaffles (@SaugyWaffles3) reported 25 minutes ago

  @WindyCityDugout @MTG_HODL @CardPurchaser I have been using them for 3 years and never had any issue. Only issue is when people over pack them. Send them with ebay and What not sales.

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  cheesehands (@Duke0fdaytona) reported 25 minutes ago

  @eBay @eBayForBusiness SKUs have completely disappeared from the Order Details page when printing shipping labels. This started ~2 days ago and is making fulfillment much slower for sellers with large inventories. Please fix ASAP. #eBaySeller”

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  OnlyCharizard (@OnlyCharizard) reported 31 minutes ago

  @TheGoblinnn Seriously. So many people on here are wishin GameStop would buy eBay but that would be absolutely terrible. The internet is full of GameStop memes of them ripping people off, why ******** do you want that on eBay too? 13% fees? naa more like 30%

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  Cain (@seo762110) reported 34 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon They are BCG agents. These douchebags were hired to burn down EBay from the inside out. The reason they cannot sell for $125 is.. if they accept the $125, all the EBay shorts must close for $125. They want to close for much lower and if possible, bankrupt EBay.

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  DaddyRist_WSB (@DaddyRist) reported 37 minutes ago

  @APompliano eBay been on the slow drip since 2010, ozempic ain't saving that one ngl

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  Jacob Dulworth (@jworthliving) reported 38 minutes ago

  Attention EBay sellers that use EBay plain white envelope. My local post office denied my shipment because it didn’t include the “non machinable surcharge, 49 cents”. They said usps is starting to crack down on this. @CardPurchaser

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  Paul Drew (@PaulDre16022681) reported 39 minutes ago

  To draw a comparison, Aron bought run down theaters that he knew would be unprofitable and intentionally put AMC in irreversible debt while Cohen is using dilution as a means to buy EBay and flourish into a giant company. If you are using stops, your shares will always get taken.

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 44 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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  Richard (@standards4ppl) reported 44 minutes ago

  @PhantomBlack699 In short, @ryancohen is saying that eBay is a goldmine buried under mountains of corporate waste, and he’s the only one with the prescription to fix it. I most certainly agree with that

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  GMEbay Bloat (@GMEbay_Bloat) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SignalToGamma Totally agree. He’s a plant. Perhaps someone shorted eBay and doesn’t like the run up. Need him in there to bring it back down.

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  Fine Fictional Men (@FineFictMen) reported 49 minutes ago

  @RamblingsNerd2 I had to believe this is the case because some sites have to pull down NSFW content to some extent like with eBay...

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  Umar (@chillwitumar) reported 52 minutes ago

  Threadguy shares the exact response eBay used to shut down Ryan Cohen's proposal to take them private at $125 a share. After Cohen went on a media tour calling them out, eBay fired back, telling him, "We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive." They cited factors like eBay's standalone prospects, the uncertainty of his financial proposal, and the impact on long-term growth. After reviewing the board's official reasoning, Threadguy sums up the rejection as just a bunch of legal corporate slop.

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  Mbb7806 (@mbb7806) reported 52 minutes ago

  I mean yes, I could try to buy them secondhand on eBay, but this isn't viable because the list I'm following has over 900 more comics. I'm not spending tons of money on shipping for single issues I'll never read again. There have been some issues that I have not liked at all

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  ThePPShow (@ThePPseedsShow) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SylvesterPatr0n @magsonthemoon @eBay Why did he choose May 13? Something definitely is going down

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  GME69696969 (@gme696969) reported 59 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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  The Doors (of Perception) ⭕️💎🙌🏴‍☠️ (@greuter83) reported 59 minutes ago

  @ShaunFitzzzy I have put notifications on temporary. So funny GME down and eBay up today. Are we buying with GME or is Ryan buying himself..

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  OnlyCharizard (@OnlyCharizard) reported 1 hour ago

  @sideshowblobz @TheCBJungle I always set a minimum offer so the low ones get auto-declined. If they message me asking stupid questions about taking way less, just block them. They will always cause problems later & there are millions of other people on ebay every day, someone else will always buy the card

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  Chef Jeff (@ChefJeff2185) reported 1 hour ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen The owners, interesting who owns ebay and who likes making money. State street, vanguard, Cohen, who else owns 4.9% of ebay. Still feel like This is happening. They cant hold GMEs price down forever. Great interview.

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  Kong (@K1n9_Kon9) reported 1 hour ago

  @Stonkfather2021 time for ebay stock to go back down to 80 then gg