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
Preston	Website Down	1 hour ago
Preston	Website Down	7 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	15 hours ago
Edinburgh	Website Down	23 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	23 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	1 day ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  MD (@MorgenHatton) reported 24 seconds 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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  DCrease (@Dcrease13) reported 27 seconds ago

  @johnny_glue @heydomoshi @eBay One given 10x book... the other held down at cash for cash most of the time!

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  Scott Sleepy (@scott_sleepy) reported 1 minute ago

  @Kaaroth @mikee_degen I have two thoughts on this: eBay is 99% institutional owned (or 89% institutional with a 10% insider who is likely hostile), and tender offers are actually even more challenging in these dominations. It’s extremely rare that institutions participate in tender offers or voice support for activist campaigns. This makes a tender offer right now extremely, extremely challenging. Point 2: I actually think we get a huge market crash immediately in 2027, right after midterms. In the scenario where the market tanks, eBay is down >40%, Ryan keeps the $125 offer on the table, and the board has received bad press for 6+ months that is tarnishing their reputation - they are effectively forced to sell the company at that point. And in this scenario, if they don’t sell, a tender offer has a much higher chance of success. This is imo a high success chance outcome that is in a realistic timeline. Just wanted to pass along my two cents, I did a lot of research and brainstorming with grok on tender offers, and this is the scenario where it can succeed. Going to a tender offer though in a couple month when the share price is around $110 and the board is still hostile? Surprisingly that has historically a very low chance of success

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  Sep 🌸⚔️ (@venom_cipher) reported 4 minutes ago

  @vvvvioll And then returned to the seller. When I tried to contact them, I found that their eBay account was entirely gone. $80 USD down the drain… I did end up getting them from Best Buy a few years later though!

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  Daily Coach Picks (@DailyCoachPicks) reported 4 minutes ago

  The EBay story that nobody is talking about: -GME is down 19% since Cohen embarrassed himself on CNBC -The Math only works if he dilutes GME shareholders by 60+% -Closed at 21.61 today, with single digit downside in the horizon My Opinion: RC = grifting conman

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  Scruffy (@scruffycitytv) reported 4 minutes ago

  Im not reading all of that but I have zero issues with ebay. I buy and sell on there daily. No where else will you get that many people actively buying and selling. As for the fees. I really don’t even care. Account for them when you make your listing prices. It’s a free market. I use eBay for the amount of eyes on my products. GameStop shills just can’t get over this.

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  The New Mocha Joe (@TheNewMochaJoe) reported 8 minutes ago

  @CGasparino Must be getting the eBay deal. The market seems to be indicating that with GME down and eBay up.

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  ELY M. (@ely_m) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ebay @ryancohen ebay is full of bugs!!!! some of bugs is really killing the sales. I just have my buyer who messaged me that he cannot buy on my listing. I have to tell him to try without ebay app. you need to fix your code.

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 13 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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  OaklandMofo (@OaklandMofo) reported 17 minutes ago

  Lot of talk about eBay. First of all, I bought the stock because I know they are going to report record profits. Not because of "new buyers". But because they are squeezing sellers to death. I do not believe in the company and will dump stock after fluffed numbers come out. They forced sellers to pay ad rates 100% of the time whether or not a buyer gets to your listing organically or not. Nearly impossible to get organic traffic without paying. Even though you already pay heavy store fees and Final Value Fees. They bury you if you do not play this game. They promote Chinese sellers and mostly international accounts drop shipping stuff form Amazon and Walmart for pennies profit. It makes those overseas swindlers rich and kills small American businesses. eBay is a bad bad company. At this point it appears their only job is to gatekeep small American businesses and make sure they are squeezed until they fold. Every decision is anti American business. It has so much potential and this is why we need someone like Game Stop to take over. Fat chance though. eBay is an anti American operation and will never allow anyone to fix it. It is not here for profit. It is controlled to ensure you do not profit.

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  Brett Boyer 🇺🇸 (@BrettHBoyer) reported 19 minutes ago

  .@ryancohen exposed @ebay’s management as lazy corporate leeches. It’s a shame to watch an internet pioneer get dragged down by old Wall Street tactics. $GME $EBAY

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  mgmidget (@mgmidget) reported 23 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g I think @ebay is a giant bore. Once a year I buy a vintage computer there that's about all that's left. And you can't call or talk to anyone if you have a problem it _feels_ like a scam.

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  HelpfulMilk (@HelpfulMilk546) reported 24 minutes ago

  How are we gonna let @TheRoaringKitty get away with this gme makes money on their initial eBay stake and he gets a good price of gme as it keeps going down! Hes getting more for less!

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  Protect the Cats (@Toycat470772) reported 31 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g eBay has its problems, sure. But I don't want the guy that turned Gamestop into the funko pop store trying to "fix" it. Ironically any game can be found cheaper on eBay than Gamestop.

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  OneManSaas (@OneManSaas) reported 33 minutes ago

  @gregisenberg Exactly this. Built my SaaS while everyone was chasing the AI hype wave. Same reason my eBay business works - I'm solving problems in markets that don't have 500 funded startups fighting over every customer.

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  Bitcoin Dumb Money APE (@BTCDumbMoneyAPE) reported 36 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Please fix the seller fees! They are too high and it’s driving people crazy. Make eBay Great Again! 🇺🇸💰😎

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  Lefteris Karapetsas (@LefterisJP) reported 37 minutes ago

  @0x_Ytocin @sudoingX yeah I have lots of questions. I thought I should start with a single or dual 3090s and turns out I can't source them here in Berlin. Only Ebay KleinAnzeigen but that's essentially no warranty, could be burned off, broken. So probably would need to go with newer models which are just too expensive.

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  Thumb Out 42 (@42thumbout) reported 37 minutes ago

  @fbb4official @eBay Feels like RC sold us out driving the price down to absolute b**** numbers. What are your thoughts?

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 38 minutes ago

  Triangulation Fraud vs "Dropshipping" It's not uncommon for $EBAY buyers to receive orders "dropshipped" from Amazon, Walmart etc. There are many variations on the fraud, but generally: If it uses stolen credit card = crime No stolen cc = just terrible eBay buyer experience.

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  Canadian3DPrinting (@Canadian3DPrint) reported 40 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g EBay is a dumpster fire. They openly let buyers scam sellers by letting them say they didn’t receive an item and automatically reimburse the buyer from the sellers account. I shut it down a few years ago now. Scammers everywhere

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  Jay Bee (@Mordin04) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Alyssandriaaa @TCGplayer I stopped using TCGplayer last year after eBay shut down their Syracuse facility.

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  TME Doomsday (@TME_Doomsday) reported 44 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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  creenpa🎤🇺🇸🎸🍀 (@creenbir) reported 46 minutes ago

  @PeterRHann1 Is this the Kansas City shuffle? If GME moons, he won’t need to issue shares to buy eBay? Does he exercise eBay options and buy something else? Or does he push through the eBay purchase as stated?

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  Lem (@Ohlem_) reported 48 minutes ago

  @shadows_united Debated Brothership just because of the deal but that Marvel vs Capcom collection might hold me down until Tokon drops. Almost like those bastards at GameStop said they didn’t need the EBay deal and had other means of making money smh

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  Ecomint NEWS (@ecomintnews) reported 49 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.

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  Nicole (@nicolew76538921) reported 51 minutes ago

  @heydomoshi I think shorts will really drive down GME and raise eBay, making him unable to afford it

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  picstoral (@picstoral) reported 55 minutes ago

  Feeling down enough, then a (eBay) return cancelled out the profit I made from the buyer who bought three items (same one who bought an item I couldn't find). I write detailed descriptions, no AI for me. Color, shape, size, a brief history if I know it. That piece of jewelry that was returned was expensive for its size. Yet despite the detail the buyer "just didn't like it" and it was "too small". Now I'm worried that it will happen again. Like I said I'm just a small time seller on SSDI & can't absorb that much of a return like big sellers can.

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  GeeDeeCee (@DennisHarwich) reported 58 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Yeah and you're too much of a ***** to issue a blockchain dividend for $GME . Sounds like you're even more of a "hollow man" than the eBay **** heads are.

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  Jack Dillard (@Kraven1776) reported 58 minutes ago

  @seymourbutts741 @ryancohen Dude eBay was the bait, wallstreet and apparently all bbby community took the massive eBay bait. This is the Kansas city shuffle. Thats all I wanted to say in the spacecall, but silencing ideas and shutting down thought that go against the consensus group think is lame.

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  GME DaLoot (@gmeorbust0) reported 59 minutes ago

  @MomchilB @unusual_whales if u actually look at the numbers its far from run down and actually profitable with $9b in cash. so i think hes earned every right to call ebay board greedy losers