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
Jauldes	Errors	2 hours ago
Besançon	Website Down	7 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	8 hours ago
Andernach	Website Down	9 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	13 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	14 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  BarronGoesToIran (@collide_z) reported 56 seconds ago

  @Trickster42069 @SarahLeon28397 @ryancohen and, by the way, Vinted works much better than Ebay, much less to fix

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  M B (@checkem888) reported 1 minute ago

  @ryancohen Why ******** are you trying to build a Berkshire Hathaway clone and have done nothing to stop predatory shorts holding down the price of gme? Why would they just short ******** out of eBay too?

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  Law (@BlchrCreature27) reported 5 minutes ago

  @rnewton7777 RC's approach would be easier is GME was at $50-60. Issue shares, take in the cash, fund the eBay purchase. A legacy swap roll in the coming months might set it up. Wonder if there's a trigger available to light the fuse? Either way, selling CCs and CSPs. #GoodMorningEveryone

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  Richard (@standards4ppl) reported 5 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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  WhenItRainsItPours (@chadRAINS) reported 5 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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  Jake Friedel (@zebular0) reported 9 minutes ago

  @pineda30308 We're really just watching market mechanics at work right now. Arb trading Ebay, it goes up, we go down. Then in June more of those bond hedges will get unwound... Cohen would almost certainly add to his GME position next month if it was under $20 at that point. So basically, who knows what price does in the next few weeks... I'm just loading at prior support levels because it makes the most sense.

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  Jolly Jack-o **** (VeeScoot) (@Veescoot) reported 14 minutes ago

  Alright. i got some boxes from ebay at these prices. i had to remind myself. the print run is est to be WAY bigger. than 2025. so i can calm down i ended up buying 1 hobby to keep sealed, 7 mega boxes and 12 blaster boxes, May buy more if prices lower in due time

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  Hey Jay (@JJeffrey100) reported 14 minutes ago

  @camolNFT Given royal pops are going for $3k on ebay already, I'd say they sold out pretty quickly. They'll be down under $1k in a week

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  Robert Landa (@robertico1980) reported 18 minutes ago

  @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @ryancohen If the Board doesn't care about Ebay that's not a problem by Ryan Cohen

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  Cyber Samurai (@_hustleandgrow) reported 19 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK @eBay you need fire whoever is running your websites. Total shambles, total fraud. Your website is down, your app is down. Dog ****. Your shareholders should sue you all.

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  Enkhmanal 🟠 (@Enkhmanal) reported 20 minutes ago

  eBay Just Rejected GameStop's $56 Billion Bid As 'Neither Credible Nor Attractive' — Ryan Cohen's Most Audacious Move Got Slapped Down In Public eBay's board just publicly rejected GameStop's $56 billion takeover bid in the most dismissive language possible. Chairman Paul Pressler issued a statement Tuesday that the offer is "neither credible nor attractive" and that eBay's board is "confident the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth." That is corporate-speak for "go away." For anyone who has not been following this saga, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen — the meme-stock-era folk hero who became GameStop's largest shareholder and turned the dying video game retailer into a $12 billion crypto-and-Bitcoin treasury vehicle — bid last week to acquire eBay for $56 billion. The bid was half-cash, half-stock, backed by a $20 billion debt financing commitment from TD Bank. The bid was approximately 4x GameStop's own market cap. Why this bid never made sense on paper The proposal had problems from day one. Let me lay out the math. GameStop's market cap is around $12 billion. eBay's is around $54 billion (down to $51 billion after Tuesday's announcement). For GameStop to acquire eBay at $56 billion, it would need to either: • Raise something close to $30 billion of debt against the combined company • Dilute GameStop shareholders to roughly 25% of the combined entity • Or both The TD Bank financing commitment was $20 billion — meaningful, but only a third of the deal value. The rest of the financing was theoretical. eBay's CEO Jamie Iannone has actually been running a real turnaround. Since he took the position six years ago, eBay's stock has returned 201%. The company has reinvented its category-specific verticals (collectibles, sneakers, refurbished electronics), launched payment products, and improved seller economics. eBay shareholders have done well under current management. The board has zero incentive to entertain a bid from a smaller, more speculative company unless the price is extraordinarily compelling. $56 billion was not. What Ryan Cohen was actually doing Cohen is one of the most interesting capital allocators in the public markets right now. He spent the last five years transforming GameStop from a brick-and-mortar video game retailer with declining same-store sales into something genuinely strange: a public-market vehicle for buying Bitcoin, hoarding cash, and using its meme-stock-era retail investor base to fund increasingly large balance-sheet plays. GameStop currently holds: • Around $5 billion in cash and short-term investments • A growing Bitcoin treasury • Minimal operating cash flow from the actual gaming business That balance sheet plus Cohen's reputation in the retail trading community has historically been enough to push GameStop's stock to valuations that make no sense for a video game retailer. Cohen has been very good at using that valuation as currency. The eBay bid was the boldest version of that play. If accepted, GameStop would become a real e-commerce platform overnight. The combined company would have $100+ billion in marketplace GMV, real free cash flow, and a credible AI/payments roadmap. The video game-related identity of GameStop would functionally disappear, replaced by something more like an Amazon-adjacent marketplace operator. The bid was Cohen's attempt to use GameStop's premium valuation to acquire an actual durable business. Why eBay's "no" matters When a target board publicly rejects a bid using the word "credible," it is doing two things: 1. Inoculating against shareholder pressure. eBay knows Cohen has built a 5% position in eBay and signaled he might call a special shareholder meeting. The board's public rejection establishes the official position — we looked at it, we don't think it works, here's why — so any future shareholder vote happens with the board's view already on the record. 2. Discouraging follow-on bids. If eBay had said "we're considering it" or "we want better terms," it would have signaled that a higher bid might work. By saying the bid is "not credible," eBay is telling Cohen and any potential future bidder that no amount of money from this configuration of buyer with this financing structure is going to clear the board. If you want to bid for eBay, bring real cash, a strategic logic, and a deal that does not depend on $30 billion of speculative debt. Where the GameStop story goes from here GameStop has three plausible paths from here: Path A: Cohen takes it to shareholders directly. He has built a 5% position, which is enough to call a special meeting in many circumstances. He can try to force a shareholder vote on the merger, betting that retail investors who love both Cohen and the meme-stock narrative will overwhelm institutional shareholders skeptical of the deal. The math on this is hard — eBay's institutional investor base is concentrated, and major asset managers (Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity) are unlikely to back a leveraged take-under by a much smaller acquirer. Path B: Cohen walks away and the eBay stake becomes a tax-loss event. GameStop's 5% position in eBay was bought at average prices that may have been near eBay's recent highs. If the bid effectively collapses, eBay's stock could drift back toward $90-95 and GameStop's position becomes a meaningful unrealized loss. Cohen would either need to sell (locking the loss) or hold and wait for eBay's strategic plan to deliver. Path C: Cohen pivots to a different target. GameStop's balance sheet is still real cash. Cohen has been signaling that he wants GameStop to become an acquirer of real operating businesses. If eBay is off the table, the next logical targets are smaller — Etsy ($8B market cap), Wayfair ($8B), or a niche marketplace operator. Those deals would actually be doable given GameStop's existing capital structure. The cultural moment The GameStop-eBay story is a perfect Bookend to the 2021 meme-stock era. Five years ago, retail investors used GameStop's stock as a weapon against hedge funds shorting the company. The collective action turned a dying retailer into a household name and made Ryan Cohen into a folk hero. He then used that momentum to transform GameStop into a balance sheet that could attempt audacious moves like buying eBay. The rejection by eBay's board is the corporate establishment saying: we have not forgotten the rules, and the rules still apply. A small company cannot acquire a larger company using mostly speculative financing and stock that trades at a meme premium. Capital markets eventually impose discipline on capital structure even when retail investors are willing to keep the dance going. Whether or not you like Ryan Cohen, the eBay rejection is the most important institutional pushback against the meme-stock model in years. Watch GameStop's next move — that tells us whether Cohen learned the lesson or whether he doubles down on something even bigger and stranger.

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  GMEbay Bloat (@GMEbay_Bloat) reported 24 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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  Dirk Dickbutt (@dickbutt_dirk) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Escapissed85 yeah I put down a few orders on Ebay, I was just trying to expand my options a bit.

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  David Mac (@LegacyMac114) reported 29 minutes ago

  @DonaldTodd1 @Comedyorwat @ryancohen It’s not diluting to 2.5 billion shares lol. Dilution is if he sold the shares into the market after getting them. Increasing the share amount is how he will issue half stock for EBAY

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  John Johnson 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@welwynstudios) reported 29 minutes ago

  @sandkiz @classic_film I got mine off EBay, after searching for some time. What was the glitch?

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  Trendzone (@Trendzonebro) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AustinTobitt The only problem I see is the current valuation between ebay and gme. If we take out the cash, the market is pricing GME at 1-2 billion. GME's valuation doesn't seem fair for GME holders compared to ATH with premium for Ebay. It looks like GME holders will lose vs ebay holders.

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 35 minutes ago

  Shorts are pushing the $GME price down - if GME buys EBay the share count will be higher …

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  bumblebeetuna (@ballzack850) reported 35 minutes ago

  @eBay My 90 day total is down 25% and falling more and more everyday. No matter what or how much I list. Good times...

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  Joel Mendoza (@JoelMendoz63815) reported 38 minutes ago

  @BrdcastMediaGuy @eBay If there’s an issue and you want your money back, go to the items listing and select the start refund option. It will force the seller to either refund you with no return or communicate what you want done. eBay will hold their funds until the problem is resolved

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  Chris Sommers (@ChrisSommers79) reported 39 minutes ago

  @EconomPic @stoked_on_waves @RandolphDuke7 there’s no other way for eBay shareholders to get stock because he’s not going to sell $25-30bn worth of GameStop shares before the deal He may issue shares after the deal closes but I’d actually be surprised if he does, at least in first 3-6 months

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  bubblehead_ripz_cardz (@BubbleheadRipz) reported 39 minutes ago

  Has anyone else’s eBay sales been slow? #thehobby #THFpro

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  Aglia (@224osk) reported 41 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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  Adam Graf (@amgoblue) reported 42 minutes ago

  @buythefukndip @ryancohen @Comedyorwat Ive been thinking this is a step towards getting the float monster part of the play in a paypal, venmo or insurance co. He will get as much cash out of ebay as possible no doubt, but much will go towards paying down debt early on. As we say these days, we will see what happens.

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  b0bba (@b0bbaTV) reported 42 minutes ago

  @OsirisOrigins Yep! Same! I hated having it weight my limp wrists down and getting buzzed with notifications all the time. I’ve put mine on eBay. I had a discount code so put it to good use 🧑‍💻 I must’ve ✨manifested✨ it!!

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  It’s Maina (@maina_dilemma) reported 44 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon eBay shut down their Israeli offices earlier this year… they didn’t want to support genocide. Now do you see why @ryancohen want’s eBay so bad? He will get it too.. his ‘friends’ will help if he can’t bleed us for it. America has a disproportionate amount of Jewish Oligarchs…

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  Akecheta (@aki_cheta) reported 46 minutes ago

  Since 2022 this proposal topic has won more than 47% shareholder support 3-times without any special effort by the proponent. Meanwhile EBAY made a special effort against this proposal topic all 3-times. This greater than 47% support likely represented much more than 50% shareholder support from the EBAY shares that have access to independent proxy voting advice which gives these shareholders insight to both sides of this important issue. Their shareholders are basically begging management to give them the approval to hold a special shareholder meeting because of all the ****** up things going on.. The board rigged their own re elections by ******* with the governance policy! $EBAY $GME @ValueAddedRS @ryancohen

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  Churrodizzle - Bruce/Holt are the GOATS (@carter2985) reported 52 minutes ago

  @jake_432 @CardPurchaser Went through eBay authentication? Do they ever ship that way? I’m a screw down? I’ve never seen them ship it that way. I’m probably wrong

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  Breakfast & Bullets (@BreakfastBullit) reported 53 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay Just wanted to say you suck. I bought something "new in box," it arrived missing parts and broken, seller not answering messages. I filed a claim, it was denied because I "received my order, according to shipping info." I appealed. Denied within 10 minutes. This seller is scamming people. I want my money back.

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  Knorr (@Lord_Knorr) reported 54 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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  Pete Segheth (@OGpimpfish) reported 57 minutes ago

  @compound248 @JamesSurowiecki Correct. And then you immediately gut costs which are at this point 3x what they should be and rebuild the platform with a seller centric bias. Ebay SUCKS to use as a casual. Fix issues it it will explode