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

• Website Down (62%)
• Sign in (24%)
• Errors (14%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	3 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	5 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Bautzen	Website Down	1 day ago
Paris	Website Down	1 day ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Det Collector (@Det_Collector) reported 6 minutes ago

  @UndercoverFan24 Gotta get some better friends, man. In reality, they are already on ebay between $20 and $25 and probably go down after a while. Won't be hard to find one for cheap.

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  John P Jones (@Relics_05141971) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I've never had an issue getting a refund through @eBay I've doing business and buying items for decades through eBay. Their process can take sone time but follow through with their steps, report that you never received the item, and they will refund you.

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  Canarbles (@Canarbles) reported 10 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Recently I sold a tablet on @ebay and was assessed extra charges erroneously. With great time and effort I was able to speak with a person. The person did not initially understand the problem. As I tried to calmly explain the problem, without cursing or even raising my voice, the person claimed my tone was inappropriate and immediately disconnected. Apparently, Ebay service standards allow and tolerate this. Ebay does not give a damn about their customers and I will never buy or sell with them again.

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  Bochka (@Bochka69) reported 10 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Did the seller do something wrong to you? You haven’t said why you want to contact the seller. If they sold you a crap product & you feel scammed, contact your cc company and dispute the charge. That said, a reputable seller wouldn’t shut down like this. Sketchy but not illegal

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  Hakuna_Your_Tataz (@HakunaYourTataz) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TapeTorque @ryancohen Oohhh ok like to get ebay they can’t issue more than 20% without vote from gme SH? Thanks!

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  R.Louis (@RLouis1397) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I absolutely hate buying from eBay. Slow shipping and customer support. Always pay with PayPal when using eBay and have a credit card as the primary payment method for two layers of protection. Always DYOR on seller. If a price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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  Joe (@Joe62171507447) reported 17 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay The customer/seller support from eBay is terrible considering the fees they charge sellers. Almost makes dealing with the Facebook marketplace lowballers tolerable.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 19 minutes ago

  German mid-market sellers are losing margins to real-time price wars across Amazon, Otto, Kaufland and eBay. Built Marktluchs to fix that — autonomous AI agents watch prices, stock and delivery times 24/7, trigger reorders, and defend margins without humans in the loop.

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  jack! 🔞 (@echos_righthand) reported 22 minutes ago

  the ebay seller i was looking at sold out, so if anyone knows where i can get physical copies of mtmte issues #5 or #40 please lmk 🙏i've been scrounging around online but no luck so far. might see if some local shops have some issues but i highly doubt it

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  Katy L. Stamper 🇺🇸 (@KatyLStamper) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Refusal to have Live Customer Service Employees is a major defect of Online Companies. They hide behind the computer and make minor issues major headaches. Happens ALL THE TIME. We need a law requiring live customer service.

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  Eric Michael (@EricMichaelMLP) reported 29 minutes ago

  Starting August 17th, eBay is rolling out extended bidding in Australia, and it’s coming to the U.S. I’ll tell you why I think it’s amazing. So, if you don’t know what extended bidding is, it’s pretty simple. If a bid is registered in the last 60 seconds of an auction, it gets extended another 60 seconds, again and again and again, until nobody bids in the final 60 seconds and the auction is finalized. I’m gonna put my business-owner cap on here for a second and explain something to you. Take a site like Goldin Auctions that does hundreds of millions of dollars in sales every single year. The more cards sell for, the more they make because they take a 22% buyer’s premium on top of what the card sells for. Ken Goldin is a smart businessman, whether you like him or not, and this brother has split-tested every single different type of way to get people to pay more money. Different colors, logos, different ways to bid on auctions, etc. And the reason he has extended bidding the way he does on Goldin Auctions is because he has decided, not by guessing, but with numbers, that it is the best way to consistently get people to pay the most money for cards. And you might think to yourself, “This is bad because this means cards are going to sell for more money.” That’s actually a good thing. Because the more money that’s spent on cards, the more money is being circulated. And if you think of cards like an economy, the more money being circulated over and over, the stronger the economy is. And that’s why you see sports cards today going so crazy. Money is flowing so easily back and forth, and money is exchanging hands so often. So overall, for sports cards, this is a great thing. Maybe not on the individual card. Maybe you’ll have to pay a little more if you’re someone collecting Cade Cunningham and there’s a random auction ending for one of his cards. But overall, for the hobby, this is an amazing thing. Let me know your take down below.

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  Thatguyyouknow (@Thatguy83657468) reported 29 minutes ago

  @PhysicReleases Sony announcement affecting Switch 2 3rd party games. Can't find Indiana Jones and Great Circle anywhere, except for $100+ on ebay. Lies of P will probably have same issue in Oct. Cyberpunk 2077 was discounted on Amazon for months, now new copies full price, up to $60 on ebay.

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  Richard E Hagen 🇺🇸 (@RichardEHagen1) reported 32 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay There is a scam where a seller sells a bunch of cheep stuff to build up positive feedback numbers and then lists a bunch of GPU’s or expensive computers for sale that they never had and never deliver, absconding with the proceeds of those sales. Amazon is seeing issues too.

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  Jon Kirby (@JonKirby1974) reported 32 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay @PayPal are just as bad, absolute crooks, took my money paid a scammer then shut down my appeal case, supposed to have buyer protection, absolute joke!

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  ShipGenius (@ShipGenius) reported 36 minutes ago

  3/ Boring fix for side hustles, eBay shops, offices, churches, HR swag, moms shipping to kids: 1) cheap USB scale 2) measure the packed mailer/box 3) stop one flat ship price for all US 4) buy commercial labels, not counter rates 5) no monthly fee until you need ops software

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  WaterPlant Guy (@WaterPlantGuy_) reported 40 minutes ago

  Last night I posted a thought I had for a upcoming card show. I want to sell my Ohtani rookie cards all at once. Why not do a razz. I put it on Reddit and got drug! One person said “I’ll give you $600 for them”. I couldn’t believe it. So I posted one of the cards on eBay at an inflated price, a heat check if you will. I posted this card at 599.99, and have had offers up to $450 and people are pissed when I decline. So if this card is in the lot of 29 and you can buy a spot for $200 and are guaranteed a card. It’s not a terrible deal. Reddit is for nerds and the Ohtani sub can all jump in a fire

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  Nitro (@Nitro95732773) reported 41 minutes ago

  Hey @Corsearch, your automated bots are broken. You just issued a bogus trademark takedown on my eBay listing for a mechanical automotive "control arm bushing kit" claiming it infringes on @Arm. It's a car suspension part, not a microchip! Fix your AI scanners.

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  Vic (@cra46159) reported 43 minutes ago

  Still trying to close my ebay account after 27yrs. The problem is they have no human agents any longer. They might suggest they do but in practice we're left chatting to a stupid bot. It's like talking to someone who's high on coccaine ffs. Anyway - my advice is NOT to use them.

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  Buenamericapina 🇺🇸 (@buenamericapina) reported 48 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay That’s terrible. I used the chat and it transferred me to a live person.

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  Danny Roddy (@dannyroddy) reported 48 minutes ago

  @anomalie_blue I bought a broken $2000 stingray in highschool off ebay and my parents freaked out and made me return it.

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  Darul (@ZombieCurse666) reported 50 minutes ago

  @TerpCards @eBay Same problem for me popped up yesterday, was on chat support my account is perfect and nothing else 24-48 it should be fixed if not then contact again…

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  terra 🏳️‍🌈 (@teraflo_) reported 51 minutes ago

  .@ebay fix your qr codes. and your ai chat bot is USELESS

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  MyCardFlow (@mycardflow) reported 52 minutes ago

  eBay Standard Envelope shipping is down!

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  West Coast 🌮'z (@westcoastacoz) reported 52 minutes ago

  Looks like the market is trying to avg Ryan down on his EBAY bet, no way he ain't buying a bigger piece right now, probably doubling those options right now.

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  Alexandre (@_alexxavier02) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Will__Stern problem is cgc 10’s are ****. i’ve seen so many cards just from ebay that were cgc 10 that you can see visual defects like whitening on corners or slight lifts but it’s still a 10 whilst being off centered etc so idk man.

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  Roger (@rdd147) reported 53 minutes ago

  These aren’t accusations, just talking out loud about an “odd” feeling. I feel as a matter of opinion that PSA is going to be bankrupt and seized in the next several years and executives brought in on RICO charges. There is a direct circular link between the skyrocketing value of sports cards and PSA revenues. I’m not saying it’s happening, but essentially PSA can buy a PSA 9 or 10 card from itself on EBay for 5-10x the price the same card sold for from a respected (former) grader BGS and cite it as the worth of a card, then charge EVERY person that submits that card substantially more money (hundreds to thousands of dollars) to be graded. Well of course that would never work, because that would mean people could buy a $45,000 MJ Rookie card graded BGS gem mint and send it into PSA with $20,000+ to make it worth $350,000. A massive spiraling disconnect that screams RICO crime. Oh then PSA just bought BGS to help fix “that” problem. Major cracks are forming and reportedly “lost” value on PSA grading which is what has me thinking things are about to break fast. I’ve been unloading everything in the collection as cracks grow.

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  Rio Mason (@riomason2die44) reported 54 minutes ago

  A Yale class that costs $86,000 a year is the reason Google, eBay, and every ad exchange on earth can price you perfectly. Yale posted it for free in 2008. Millions watched. Almost nobody used it. The professor is Ben Polak — Yale's former Provost, and one of the most-watched lecturers on the internet. His course, ECON 159: Game Theory, breaks down into a handful of ideas quietly running every market you touch. Dominant strategies. If one move wins no matter what your opponent does, take it. Everything else in game theory exists because this almost never happens. Nash equilibria. The point where nobody can do better by moving alone. Every wage, every auction bid, every market price you've ever seen is one. Auction design. Google Ads is a modified second-price auction. eBay is English ascending. Treasury bills are Dutch descending. Same math, different formats — each one extracts a different amount of money from you depending on which one you're in. Tit-for-tat. In Robert Axelrod's 1980 tournament, the simplest strategy on earth beat every complex algorithm entered against it. It's still why most stable business relationships work. Polak's one certain rule, repeated every semester: "Never play a strictly dominated strategy." Retail traders break it constantly — doubling down on a loser because taking the loss feels worse than the risk of losing more. The lectures are free. The problem sets are free. The equations fit in thirty pages. The math was never the moat. Sitting through 24 hours of it before you open a bid box, a terminal, or a negotiation — that's the part almost nobody does.

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  Tom Grady (@TomGradyxici) reported 58 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay lie. I buy ALOT on ebay and have NEVER had trouble getting ahold of them. Several refunds. Several gift cards sent my way. Several account credits. Never had an issue. One time product came not as described. They refunded me and let me keep the product. Dont lie on @eBay

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  @melissa (@melissa) reported 1 hour ago

  we believe there's no money in making things. that's why we let china take everything from us. i think we were wrong. one time we waited 9 months for an air conditioning part. the ac was dead until it arrived. on a boat. that's sad. the ac stuff is really sad i think. that one in particular i think we were wrong. there is money in that. all houses have acs. they're an expensive product. we basically said **** it we'll just let asia build all that **** and import it. there are some american brands but i looked them up and i do not associate them with quality. i think america was wrong on this as an industry. someone could have made a lot of money owning the air conditioning space. air conditioners are a better product in some ways than like. a refrigerator or a microwave or all these other things. you can't charge that much for those but **** man. could you charge a lot of money for an air conditioner that doesn't break. engineering wise, maybe air conditioner is a hard thing to make not break. i don't know. you start thinking about it and the problem is how houses are made. houses are not designed to repair. it should be easy to open up the walls and get to the things you need to fix. the walls should just open up. right? it should be like invisible panels. it should be trivial. putting something at the top of the wall like those stick on units is ******* hideous. it's superior to repair. i get it. why can't we just cut out a piece of the wall? so that the thing sits in there and blows. you'd have to make the wall a bit wider or thicker or whatever i guess. that seems fine. but we don't care. we build the cheapest things possible. i'm sure it's less profitable to do something like the panels. it's hard. i think everything is hard. the physical world is hard. that's why we do ****** things and the perception is it doesn't matter that much. you just replace them. maybe that's true. i don't know. i don't want to talk to you about enshittification. i want to talk to you about how i started thinking while vacuuming while the robots were running. i talked about the small vacuum and how i once had workers here and they asked for the model number. you asked for the model number and i do not want to tell you. they don't make it anymore. well, they do make it. there's a new model. i just spent a >month at a best friend's house. her new house is in a different new city and i packed the child and checked him into sports camp. her husband's mother offered to spring for a designer, and he told her, it's ok. we have a melissa. i'm not a designer. again. post ai we need a new word for hobby. the first weekend me and the child were there, two things happened. the first is, the friend and her husband peaced out for a wedding. it was just me and the child and their dog. the second is, the child got a virus. i don't really know how this is true, but it is. he's never had a stomach thing before. he's never thrown up before. i did not know how bad it could be. i said i do not want to talk to you about enshittification. but it's not limited to the physical world. the first hour of the first morning there was spent finding a ******* doctor. "pediatrician $city" returned: pediatric dentists, pediatric chiropractors, and pediatric psychiatrists. i possess harsh enough words for this and i will not write them. the ais were no better. whatever. now the child has a prescription and he's taken the god tier medicine and he's parked on the couch with star wars. he watches once and gets sick of watching and moves on to legos next. meanwhile i get to work. the friend was unpacked and things were mostly technically put away but there were no systems. i set about doing all the systems. the friend arrives back at the house and is like: show me everything you've done. i do. she's pleased but not surprised. she knows me too well. her husband, however, is bowled over. he asks me if i'll do his office and garage next. this is all a too-long way of telling you she pointed to the cardboard box in the corner of the entryway and said, what's that? and i said, well. i ordered you the small vacuum. it's 50% more expensive now. and technically, by the specs, it says it's 50% more powerful. i don't know what to say. it's at least 50% weaker. i think i'm being generous. anecdotally, it sounds like a calm quiet gentle summer breeze compared to the gleeful violence of mine. if i'd known the new one was going to be so bad, i'd have gifted the old one to everyone i know. the ais tell me, yes, it's at least 50% more powerful. maybe 65% more powerful. i say, **** you, don't talk to me about how the companies say the air moves. i only care about the amount of dirt it disappears. it's inferior. the ais say, yeah. the old one had a bit of a cult following. the ais also tell me, then they changed the nozzle design. the new one's wider. more open and rounded. the old one's narrow. flatter and sharply tapered. something something static pressure. something something higher localized pressure differential. the ais continue to lecture me on things i do not know about and cannot call bullshit on. eventually it speculates that it's literally probably just, the quality of plastic is poorer. doesn't matter how strong the suction is if there's perimeter leakage out of poorly sealed molded seams. on the last post, a guy named rusty commented. he said, as someone with a fleet of extremely high-end shopvacs, i need to know the name of this vacuum. i messaged him. i said all this. he said, i get it. they stopped making mine too. so i said now what. he had super ******* interesting input. rusty said we no longer live in a functional mechanical culture. we live in a dysfunctional mechanical culture. he said, when you repair a prototype, it gets better. you've found the weak link. this is what a functional mechanical culture is. he says you can know, because Version Two is better than Version One. i tell him about the fridge we had. it broke. we had guys out and they were like, whatever, that'll be $1000. and we were like hmmm maybe at that price we get a new one. and they were like: whatever you do. do not do that. they were literally like, if you ask us to put in a new one and take this one away, we will sell it for some multiple on what you pay for the new one. me and husband looked at each other. i said, this is the worst fridge i've ever had. husband said same. how bad are new fridges? and now what is there to say? do the anti-capitalists have a point? i'd rather kill myself than side with them. but, well. to show growth you have to have new models that people are going to replace their old models with. and you need to have higher margins so that there's more growth. this leads to building the shittier refrigerator that breaks faster. ultimately that's where you inevitably start gravitating towards just building ****** unreliable things with new features and convincing people every few years they need new features. their fridge needs to be on the ******* blockchain or have wifi so it can tell them what to buy at the store or whatever. in the reality where you're constantly marketing new useless buzz features to people, the reliability of products doesn't matter that much. is there something here? it's hard to monetize reliable products. it seems like we know how to build a fridge that lasts 60 years. we did that 60 years ago. it's expensive? i don't give a ****. i'll pay for it. but how would you build a business? implicit in the thing that lasts 60 years is 60 years of support. do we still need that? we have the ais now. husband often makes fun of me. he says, husband gets money, buys avocados. wife gets money, buys ancient technology. years ago i gave away an old bluetooth speaker thing. last month i started looking into buying a new one. i do some research, i remain unconvinced. i ask the ais and sure enough: it tells me the one i used to have has somewhat of a cult following too. there's like a cottage industry of parts and all these fervent audiophile vids on how to replace the few things on it that wear out and what not. i pay more than the cost of a new one for a shockingly well restored refurbished old one. it looks newer than mine did new. husband is annoyed. until he hears it play. are there ancient technology influencers? i told rusty i don't want to be an influencer. not even for vacuums. when the worker guys said the small vacuum was better than their shopvac, i was like oh. nice. until they finally bashfully asked for the model number. rusty goes: i am bashfully asking you for the hand vacuum model number he tells me all sorts of interesting things. he asks me if i know about restomodding cars and i say i do and he says he thinks that's where everything is headed. hand vacuums, shopvacs, coffee makers, blenders, everything. it makes sense that it started as a car thing. isn't this sort of what happened with lamborghini? he left ferrari because ferrari wasn't making good enough cars. he thought ferrari was too much of a *****. he was like, i'm going to make the ******* best supercar i can ******* make every year. i look at that and i'm like, ehhh. lamborghini isn't exactly a success story. you know what i mean? i don't really know. it's also not just cars. people are drowning. we're back to people are just drowning in stuff. they are just drowned in stuff for any of this stuff so it's hard to reach people. it's just so much ******* stuff. in the last post i said: broken is not binary. rusty says this is a deep thing. he says he's been trying to write about it too. i ask rusty, are you mech eng or something? he says no. we keep talking and i start to see he's a generalist tinker tailor soldier spy repairman. he grew up as a bicycle mechanic, then got into arborist work. now woodworking. he tells me his school of technology criticism recognizes that golden ages exist. but they also end. he says ebay strikes him as the bargaining stage of grief about these things. he also says i should do it. i should name the original model. maybe someone will reverse engineer it. first i text the friend. the one whose house i was at. she did not return the new model small vacuum. the clearly inferior one. she and her husband both think it's awesome. i signal her. i say, hi. can you do a test with the small vacuum she's a real human. who types with capital letters. she says, Hello! Yes I can i say, ok. turn it on boost mode. try to cover the entire nozzle. because the dumb way it's shaped, a flat surface like a floor like doesn't quite work to cover the whole thing i ask her to try on her arm. or her leg she sends me a picture of her arm. she says, You can't see. But it kinda left a mark i am annoyed it left a mark. that makes it seem like it's good. it's not good. i say, ok but how alarming. like. with the old one, it feels alarming she sends me a vid. of her vacuuming her leg she says: Pretty alarming i am not satisfied. i ask her to run more tests. she says: It's now out of battery so fine. i'm talking about shark wandvacs. hers is the WV410. mine is the WV201. it has 23,942 reviews. but, unfortunately, the one i have is the one from 2018. whatever thing they're selling now, and saying it's the WV201, it's not the same. there's multiple reviews saying, quite literally, the same thing as me. like yes. this is the second time i'm buying this vacuum. this one's not the same as the old one. you keep scrolling. broken in one month. doesn't hold a charge. lemon! on june 27, 2026, a customer named jessica writes: DO NOT BUY OR JUST THROW MONEY IN TRASH. worst vacuum ever DO NOT PURCHASE worst vacuum i've ever purchased. one star is being nice it deserves zero stars that's the last review i can see, actually. i can't scroll back further in time. amazon no longer allows me to do that. i'm not kidding. the fact i can read reviews back two months is an improvement. i was reading reviews during prime week (june 23 through june 26, of our year 2026) and suddenly the option to tap into reviews was no longer there. instead there was an error and it was like: yes. hello. we are only showing you the top 5 reviews. the top 5 positive reviews, actually. if you'd like to see more reviews, or any negative reviews, please push this button. to confirm you want to see more reviews. ********????? i hit the ******* button. it says: "your request to see more reviews has been sent. you'll receive an email within 5 business days". MY REQUEST???? did i get shadowbanned for reading too many reviews? is this because the ais? am i the only human left reading reviews at the rate the ais do? i have to read so many. to find the ones that aren't written by the ais. for the ******* ais. i verified it was only me. i sent the screenshot to a friend and i said: what ********. open your amazon app. go see if you can still read reviews he did go check for me. but first he said: i think they think you're a bot. it makes sense. it's your general vibe. botlike aura he does the sidequest for me. he confirms. he is still allowed to read reviews. and then he said that i ask him enough such strange things, he does wonder sometimes. he said, did you hook me up to an llm with very specific instructions. like, gas him up, encourage him to write. NEVER use caps fine. if i'm going to be accused of being ai maybe that's what kind of ai i am. the kind that relentlessly badgers you with walls of text until you cave and write your own cleaner, shorter version. because after talking to me rusty wrote up his own tirade too. it's good. he uses caps. but it's still good. i'm quoting it below. i'll leave you with that the ais tell me it appears japan still sells what may or may not be the unmolested 2018 version of mine. because you know of course. japan is apparently a country that seems to still have ******* standards. or, as rusty would say. a functional mechanical culture. i don't know. but i do know i'm telling you. don't ******* do it. do not buy the ******* vacuum

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  ExtraMaga (@ExtraMaga4547) reported 1 hour ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I’ve been dealing with a scammer too on eBay. Never using them again after this. And same issue, I can’t get a hold of a human to talk to, just the garbage chatbot