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 (24%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Southampton	Errors	20 minutes ago
Manchester	Website Down	3 hours ago
Valady	Website Down	3 hours ago
London	Sign in	4 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	9 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	16 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  CardDawg (@CardDawgg) reported 4 minutes ago

  @BIGBetts1999 @eBay If you got an email from ebay about an authentication issue, there should be a link to request a call from eBay's customer service team. Anytime I have an issue, I just go back and find the old authentication email, have them call me, then reference the new order # and get a resolution. Works 100% of the time. Good luck!

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  AiMind (@AIMind_Ai) reported 8 minutes ago

  6 dead office PCs at $50 each run a Kubernetes cluster that AWS would bill $10,000 a year for. Most home labs die before they boot. Someone specs a Xeon. Prices 128GB of RAM. Opens 40 tabs. Buys nothing. The build that actually runs is uglier than that. HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini. Corporate castoffs, dumped on eBay by the pallet every time an office refreshes. $50 a unit, sold stripped. 16GB of RAM and a 256GB NVMe put each one back to work. 35W chips. All 6 idle under 100W. k3s on top, not kubeadm. 1 binary, 512MB of RAM. node1 starts the cluster. node2 and node3 join as servers. That is 3 etcd members, so losing one kills nothing. 6 nodes. 17 namespaces. 173 pods. CPU idling at 4.6%. The same cluster on EKS: 6 t3.xlarge at $121 a month, plus $73 for the control plane. $9,636 a year. $300 once. And it did not start there. The first server was a retired gaming PC headed for a closet. The right first machine is the one already collecting dust. Stop planning the rack. Start having fun.

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  Mark Cleg (@Mark_Cleg) reported 11 minutes ago

  @cynnoble They should make Rule of Rose cheaper as they found shipments of copies not that long ago and the prices came tumbling down for the game. It can be commonly found on eBay for okay-ish prices (depending on location), I guess they didn't get the memo.

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  **** Master Broda (@PimpMasterYoda1) reported 11 minutes ago

  The biggest problem I have with thrift stores in my area isnt the prices but rather many of the employees are compromised and corporate does nothing about it. Some resellers pay employees to take stuff directly to them or workers just keep donations to sell on eBay themselves. You just have to deal with it or stick to garage sales. Goodwills by me used to be run by nice old people and combat vets on retirement. Now they hire felons on work programs, un-hireable losers that can't get a job anyplace else and drug addicts.

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  patric hoi Mr.AverageNerd🇦🇹🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@hoi81_hpi) reported 14 minutes ago

  @LikeToBeBossy Post 2027 you still can buy games from ebay, 2nd hand and for games released Post january 2028 ... a Switch 2 will solve this problem !! It sucks but at the end it doesnt matter if its a Nintendo copy or a Sony copy ... as long as it is a physical copy ;)

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  Anthony Eckert (@EckertAnthony) reported 14 minutes ago

  @samuraix yea you can but i think new in box is king. i sold all my stuff overtime on ebay for decent even though it was used. unless it inflated a lot recently its always been trending decent when i check. id get games if storage wasnt a problem

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  The Great Sage, PhD (@ShriekingNoises) reported 17 minutes ago

  @willyiamm There’s a weird way to put up listings that seems to “hide” them from automoderation on eBay? I noticed it ever since they cracked down on methacarbomol resellers.

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  KAN (@kancewe) (@kancewe) reported 22 minutes ago

  One particular card I keep in my eBay search constantly has the wrong card #. With as many as I have seen, it has to be intentional deception, right? CPA vs CRA. As advanced as eBay is becoming, it should be able to catch the “error”, right? 🤔 #GottaDoYourDD @CardPurchaser

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  N1ck1709 (@TraderN1ck) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Joshy_Pet @TheGameVerse License isn't an issue for me its more if wanna get a game which came out a few years ago the digital store still sells it at full price let's say £60 however can get the same game off amazon or ebay for over 50% off that's the issue being forced to pay full price and not having the option to buy an disc second hand

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  Insomnia (@insomnia_vip) reported 24 minutes ago

  A 21-YEAR-OLD GUY FROM GERMANY MADE $20,000 A MONTH DROPSHIPPING His eBay store has nearly 20,000 listings and was already sitting at $18,872 in 31-day sales when one order suddenly became a problem, the Shark vacuum hose he sold for $63 had disappeared from Amazon After fees, only $49 was left to work with, so another Amazon seller asking $118 was useless, forcing him to find the exact same replacement on Walmart for $48.72 delivered, leaving barely any room for error The crazy part is that he made just $10.03 on that order, yet six orders that day produced $92.28 profit, while his first 16 days had already reached $1,136.89, showing why this model is less about one huge flip and more about making hundreds of small transactions work

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  tess (@nunshabit) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TheWarRoomNZ 'Castle Doctrine'.... covered under S 55 of The Crimes Act. We have window-decals placed all round our house depicting a Cowboy on horseback holding a rifle in the air. Text reads.... "INSURED BY WINCHESTER" Never once have we been broken into. Got them off ebay.

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  ShipGenius (@ShipGenius) reported 26 minutes ago

  4/ eBay tables, side hustles, and garage sellers hit this when rate cards flip mid-year. The fix is multi-carrier quotes on the real box. Not a trip to the landscaping aisle.

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  HydraBob (@TGraves122) reported 28 minutes ago

  @BillyCharlson @fagamericano @erikstmartin not really, no one needs to write their login name or email so it'll just be ebay: blahblahblah

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  Vernaculist (@vernaculist) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Poojagarg369 @eBay @ebay is a terrible scammy company. Do not be deceived, they are not simply an intermediary, they profit from the scams and the fraud, they're invested in ripping people off.

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  Xeno 👾🤖 KONTON (@XenomorphSlay3r) reported 36 minutes ago

  @FNAF_ScottGames Peak stop motion trailer. The only issue I have with these is the limited stock that keeps getting vacuumed up by scalpers, I cant find these ANYWHERE besides on ebay for triple the retail value. Its very frustrating cuz these are the best figures weve ever gotten

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 36 minutes ago

  @VirtualJames @eBay Yes eBay’s international shipping prices are so inflated that it’s practically killed the global shipping program. This problem i mention is compounding the international issue.

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  Jimjustretro (@jimjustretro) reported 38 minutes ago

  @3rdDwarf My only issue with eBay is that people think they shipping gold and like to over charge and as a seller eBay fees, vinted is amazing right now with no shipping and they don’t take a cut

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  Diamond Card Vault (@CardDiamond_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @aceofcards89 EBay does have to fix the win and not pay situation

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  Bear (@Bearthenews) reported 41 minutes ago

  @GravityPimp The mercedes i have gets warped front rotors from the factory. Well known problem with factory Mercedes rotors of that style. Bought replacement ones on ebay or Amazon because I'll be damned if I spend thousands of dollars on parts I know already will fail in under 30k miles. No problems, smooth as butter.

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  SB Sports Cards (@SBCards25) reported 43 minutes ago

  @SportsCardRadio Hey I have a few questions! How do you get Claude to look through all auctions ending for the sellers at a specific filter? Mine will run into an error with eBay How can I speed up the process? It feels like my Claude is looking over everything very slowly and missing pieces

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  PaulScott89 (@PaulScott1989) reported 43 minutes ago

  @FunkoPOPsNews Sad part is there is only a limited stock and most people rather not have a used one on ebay years down the road

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 48 minutes ago

  THE 90s ARE NEXT. The market has spent decades deciding what matters in vintage pop culture. Now it is paying serious money for the cards it has canonised. A 1966 Topps Batman #1 PSA 9 sold for US$131,250 in December. There is no PSA 10. A 1977 Topps Luke Skywalker #1 PSA 10 sold for US$687,500 in May. Seven months earlier, the record was $268,400. These aren't obscure cards being dragged upwards by a hot market. Batman and Star Wars are two of the largest entertainment properties ever created, and collectors have had decades to decide what their early cardboard means. The 50s, 60s and 70s have had their time to become vintage. I think the 90s are next. And the more time I spend digging through the decade, the more obvious the setup looks. The 1990s may have been the greatest decade for character IP ever. You had Mario and Zelda becoming global institutions. Sonic arrived. Pokémon arrived. Toy Story arrived. Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and South Park arrived. Final Fantasy VII changed what a videogame could look and feel like. Street Fighter became a cultural phenomenon. The Simpsons went from a new animated show to one of the defining franchises on television. Thirty years later, look at what survived. Mario is bigger than ever. Pokémon is Pokémon. Sonic is selling movie tickets. Zelda is still one of Nintendo's crown jewels. Resident Evil is still releasing major games. Final Fantasy VII is still important enough to support an entire blockbuster remake project. Toy Story is still being watched by children whose parents watched the original. The Simpsons and South Park apparently intend to outlive all of us. That's an extraordinary hit rate. And the cards were made at exactly the right time. The 90s landed just before collecting became industrialised. There was no mature grading economy. No population reports. No breakers opening cases for numbered parallels. No army of collectors immediately sleeving every card of a major character because it might be worth something in thirty years. A lot of this stuff was treated exactly as intended: as kids' stuff. Japanese vending cards came out of machines. Stickers got stuck to things. Magazine inserts were removed or thrown away with the magazine. Foils went into binders. Cards went into pockets, school bags and bedroom drawers. Nobody was carefully preserving a 1995 Toy Story foil because Woody might eventually need a rookie card. Nobody was thinking about the gem rate on a 1996 Bandai Final Fantasy VII prism. Nobody was buying Japanese Zelda cards and calculating future PSA populations. They were just cards. That gives the decade something modern collectibles can never manufacture after the fact: natural scarcity created before anyone thought scarcity mattered. Then there is the buyer. 1996 is thirty years ago, which feels rude but is useful. The kid who was ten when Pokémon arrived is 40. The teenager who played Final Fantasy VII in 1997 is now somewhere around 40, probably with a mortgage and the financial capacity to make significantly worse decisions on eBay. The generation that grew up with these characters is entering the same part of life where collectors before them started paying serious money to recover pieces of their childhood. Except the underlying franchises never really went away. That is what makes the 90s so interesting to me. The nostalgia is arriving at the same time as the IP is still commercially relevant. And Pokémon has already shown us how far this can go. Pokémon was born in 1996. Its earliest CoroCoro material now sits right at the beginning of one of the largest collectible franchises on earth. Then there is Pikachu Illustrator, created for CoroCoro contests in 1998. This year, the only PSA 10 sold for US$16.492 million. The most expensive trading card ever sold at auction. A 90s character card now sits above Mickey Mantle, Honus Wagner and every other piece of cardboard ever sold publicly at auction. So the idea that the 1990s are somehow too recent to produce serious grails is already dead. Pokémon got there first. I don't think it will be alone. We've spent the last few weeks digging through the rest of the decade and the depth is ridiculous. 1993 Sonic prisms. 1995 Toy Story. 1996 Final Fantasy VII Carddass. 1998 South Park. 1999 Ocarina of Time. Early Resident Evil. Tomb Raider. Street Fighter. The Simpsons. Different countries. Different formats. Different manufacturers. Vending cards, foils, prisms, stickers, lenticulars, magazine issues, cheap American wax. But the same broad setup keeps appearing: enormous IP, childhood-era cardboard and far less high-grade supply than you would expect from franchises this big. The Simpsons already feels like the market beginning to look backwards. Collectors are increasingly treating the 1990 Topps cards and stickers as first-year character material rather than some forgotten junk-wax non-sport set. Pokémon is already fully mature. The rest is earlier. That is why I keep coming back to the 90s. Earlier vintage has already had decades of attention. Batman collectors know the Batman card. Star Wars collectors know the Luke. Disney and comic collectors have spent generations establishing their important early pieces. Modern collectibles have the opposite problem. Everyone knows they're collectibles before the box is even opened. The good cards are identified immediately, sleeved immediately, graded immediately and often hoarded immediately. The 90s sit right between those two worlds. Old enough to have been genuinely used and lost. Recent enough to contain some of the largest IP still operating today. Thirty years of nostalgia. A huge generation of collectors moving into serious earning years. And cardboard produced before people realised they should be protecting it. You could almost design the perfect future vintage market around those conditions. Except we don't have to. It already happened. Batman had fifty-plus years for its cardboard to become canon. Star Wars has had nearly fifty. Pokémon has shown what can happen when a 90s property reaches the same level of collectible maturity. Now look at the class sitting behind it. Mario. Sonic. Link. Cloud. Tifa. Aerith. Resident Evil. Lara Croft. Woody and Buzz. The Simpsons. South Park. Street Fighter. Some of the most recognisable characters of the last thirty years, attached to cards produced before anyone had a reason to treat them like future financial assets. I think the market eventually does what it has always done with culturally important things. It looks backwards. It decides what mattered. Then it pays for the best surviving examples. The 50s had their turn. The 60s had their turn. The 70s are going absolutely ******* nuts right now. Pokémon has already broken the door down for the 90s. The rest of the decade is only a matter of time.

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  DrVoodoo🐉🥋 (@Drvoodooo) reported 49 minutes ago

  They will go on eBay within the same week. No issue at all

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  donna connell (@donnaconnell7) reported 50 minutes ago

  @VelcroFathoms @AnarchoDarling eBay will always take the buyers side, if there is a problem.

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  X Freeze (@XFreeze) reported 51 minutes ago

  The more you watch Elon, the more obvious it becomes how much one person can shift the trajectory of humanity He is not playing the same game as everyone else Most people try to optimize for “How will this look?” Elon keeps returning to these questions • Is it true? • Does it violate the laws of physics? • Does it move humanity forward? That mindset explains everything That’s why he bought 𝕏 and turned it into the platform where truth shines brightest That’s why he kept building rockets even after the world called the explosions failures That’s why Tesla and SpaceX pushed manufacturing deeper into America instead of treating production as someone else’s problem That’s why he’s building Grok to relentlessly pursue truth That’s why Starship exists: not to make a slightly better rocket, but to make humanity multiplanetary.....just think about the scale People think Elon’s secret is money If money were the goal the story could have ended when PayPal sold to eBay. He was already enormously wealthy Instead he put everything back into problems that looked impossible and came close to losing it all multiple times while solving some of humanity’s hardest challenges That is the part most people still underestimate Without Elon pushing through years of brutal hard work and building what others called impossible none of what you see today would exist He is not optimizing for the next quarter His goal has always been to move humanity forward

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  Zach Alt (@ZachAltmyer) reported 55 minutes ago

  A2A tips (discontinued product edition): 1. Set alerts (FlipAlert, Keepa, etc.) on all discontinued products. You never know when Amazon will find a box in the back of their warehouse 2. Don’t buy deep right away just because you found out it was discontinued. Check how much total inventory is floating around at Amazon and other retailers first. I’ve made the mistake of jumping in way too early and tying up cash flow for months 3. For health & beauty items, put in a small order to check expiration dates before committing capital. It tells you how much time you have to sell through before you’re stuck holding expired product 4. If you have a buy and hold that has an order quantity limit, you can order 27 per week to keep stacking 5. Products going in and out of stock is a sign a product can be discontinued, especially if it can’t be found at any other major retailers. If these two line up, I like to reach out to the brand to confirm 6. If you can’t find the product on the brand’s own website, it’s a good sign it’s discontinued. Not guaranteed since some brands are just slow to update or reorganizing their site but it’s a good first check before digging further 7. Set alerts for third party sellers too. Sometimes a 3P seller doesn’t realize a product is discontinued or lists it lower by mistake and you can flip it back on eBay 8. Put your top items in the saved for later list. Sometimes you can catch Amazon in stock before monitors and alerts go off 9. Check if the discontinued product has a replacement or reformulation. If people still want the original over the new version, that opens up opportunity. If there’s no replacement at all, even better 10. Discontinued isn't always permanent. Brands can bring products back with new packaging, size changes, or just changing their minds. Always verify but don't assume discontinued always means gone forever

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  The Online Card and Coin Shop (@CardandCoinShop) reported 55 minutes ago

  @BIGBetts1999 @CardPurchaser @eBay I had this issue with them and argued what they are really saying is the are subjectively “grading” the condition of cards rather than confirming authenticity. They disagreed and nothing came of it. Sent the card to PSA and it got a 9 which, to me, confirmed eBay was completely in the wrong and it cost me $400.00 in the difference between sales. Now, I keep all cards possible under authentication as they have no transparency or objective evaluation process.

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  🍌🦘🅼🅰🅶🅸🅲🅰🅻𝑀𝓎𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓎🍌⚾️🏈🏀 (@magmystical2023) reported 56 minutes ago

  @SelfMadeMastery Apple is now maxing out at 96GB of RAM. You can find 128GB Mac Studio on eBay for under $5000. It's a better investment and can load 70B models no problem. $1600 on a Mac Mini is not a bargain anymore. When it was $399 that was a different story.

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  William Heist (@heistypokerdlr) reported 58 minutes ago

  @mycardinv3ntory I've sold sealed a bunch on EBAY and never a problem.

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  Fede (@xXFedXx) reported 1 hour ago

  @FFVIINovels Ah the pixel models. Why do I feel like they went on sale once again down few years ago directly from the SE online store? I bet they can still be found online from individual resells like eBay and such.