eBay status: access issues and outage reports

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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%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Preston	Website Down	1 hour ago
Coatesville	Errors	8 hours ago
Ashburn	Website Down	8 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	9 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	14 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	15 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Ecomint NEWS (@ecomintnews) reported 17 seconds 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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  tokyoto (@bball4224) reported 1 minute ago

  @swanson18982373 @alt_w_v_g If he's the owner of a slimy company and didn't fix it, what makes you think he would fix ebay?

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  Nathan Snyder (@ANateForFate) reported 3 minutes ago

  DC Universe doesn't have every single issue of Superman in existence. What if I'm in the mood to read the Bronze Age? What if the comic stores I go to have none of the issues I want? And if they're on eBay yet crazy expensive, what do you want to do then?

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  TME Doomsday (@TME_Doomsday) reported 5 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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  Abrahan Ruiz (@riuabrams) reported 5 minutes ago

  @eBay Help I Can't sign in or create a new account, the verificación message doesn't arrive...

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 14 minutes ago

  This is a good callout - eBay provides some tools to manage who can buy/bid but blocking 0 feedback buyers isn't on list. While it's understandable eBay doesn't want to discourage new buyers, it's also a real problem for sellers especially on high $/high fraud risk items. It should be at seller's discretion on per item basis.

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 17 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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  GME DaLoot (@gmeorbust0) reported 19 minutes ago

  @unusual_whales @SwamiKnows_ Lets be honest here, ebay hasnt advanced to the new digital age, they are stuck in 1990’s. Spending billions of $ and gaining only 1m new customers is terrible, doing stock buybacks with profits from raising sellers (customers) fees is a losing battle. Sellera will leave.

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  ooh we slidin (@dickportillos) reported 22 minutes ago

  Why don't I own this? Better trek on down to eBay...

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  Daily Coach Picks (@DailyCoachPicks) reported 22 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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  azef (@azefs) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TlMRAN I think it sorta depends on what camera you have but I used to use a mini hdmi to hdmi converter with one other adapter or something and never had an issue. It was literally like 10$ on ebay

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  Alan Swales (@Coach_Swales) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MorgenHatton @ryancohen This merger solves two problems. Firstly Things bought on Ebay can be shipped from a GME store to prove they are not fake- good for EBAY. Secondly GME get one of the biggest international distribution networks and online shop rather than building their own

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  Greg (@Greg13868007) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AMCbiggums Meanwhile #GME is long EBAY and making money on that. Could be a massive squeeze in GME if this ends up not working out!

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  Kevin Holland (@ou1989klh) reported 38 minutes ago

  @BosCardHunter Accidentally included two cards that didn’t need to go to an authenticator in Santa Ana … show as delivered but they were never sent back to me nor were they sent to the buyer .. had to issue the buyer two refunds … neither eBay nor the PSA office out there has addressed ..

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  Breakfast & Bullets (@BreakfastBullit) reported 39 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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  Commodore International Historical Society (@commodoreihs) reported 39 minutes ago

  I snagged this Commodore 620 off eBay recently because it was an interesting piece. First, I have to thank my friend Steve Gray for providing background information to me on CBM-II model numbers, because I manage to screw them up every time. The Commodore 620 was the European market version of the North American B256. It's the low profile CBM-II model with 256K RAM. This one, despite being the European model 620, seems to have been modified for the North American market, as the PSU was converted to 117VAC. You can see on the serial sticker that there's a 117V sticker on top of the original serial sticker. Given that it's the same color and style, I'm guessing Commodore modified this, not a consumer. It's serial 00031, which is a low serial, but the chip date codes range from 2182 to 2983 (May 1982 - July 1983). It's in generally working condition, and it boots to the native boot screen saying, "commodore basic 256, v4.2". I have a line on a replacement keyboard, so the missing keys won't be a problem.

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  GeeDeeCee (@DennisHarwich) reported 40 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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  Get BIG Cards (@Get_BIG_Cards) reported 41 minutes ago

  BIG bangers 🤩💪🏻🏆 A lot of people hate on ebay authentication and I get it, but I've personally never had issues with it and whenever those boxes of theirs show up I know it's gonna be a BIG mailday 💯

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  Las Vegas Ape🦍 (@lasvegas_ape) reported 42 minutes ago

  GameStop stock is down -11.75% in one week on news that they bought a bunch of eBay calls that are very much in the green. LOL. Everything is fake. TICKTOCK HEDGIE🦍🦍🦍#GME $GME

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  KenGriffinSwallows (@captain_tying) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Bitcoinmaxxi Why are you seemingly obsessed with this stock? Sell and move ******** on (assuming you own any). Problem solved. As for me, I like the stock. Gme eBay game stop ryan cohen @ryancohen

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 45 minutes ago

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

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  DF (@dwfisher007) reported 46 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Asking for eBay Board and Mgt team to step down ...

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  Enkhmanal 🟠 (@Enkhmanal) reported 48 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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  Nicholas A. Pantano (@npantano_) reported 49 minutes ago

  @TheMagnifishit @THIS_TIME_X I 100% agree with you. My counter and entire point, is the scenario Cohen is drawing up only works if Ebay agrees he can bring them a ton of company value post merger. Because they are essentially bending the knee if the stock portion was post merger derived. And they turned him down, so it looks like they don’t believe he can bring that value right? So I’m just letting people know the reading the initial on paper proposal he doesn’t have the funds today.

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  TradeWin (@TradeWin_) reported 50 minutes ago

  EBay proposal : rejected. RC tells he will go Ask shareholders to vote. The problem ? Institutions holding the biggest eBay positions are very likely to be short GME, so they must not agree on the deal because it will make them go under water on their GME shorts. A not impossible solution : buying eBay cash with some 5D-chess move financing. Would be a real earthquake !

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  __ROTE__ (@_ROTE_) reported 52 minutes ago

  @ctizzie @AshAgony I’m all good with crushing illegal, unregisterable mopeds. People are spending over $3K on crate e-mopeds off of eBay and other portals- WITH NO VIN NUMBERS! That’s right, this is a Federal issue and good luck with that.

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  Aglia (@224osk) reported 52 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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  Akecheta (@aki_cheta) reported 53 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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  sners | #1 barbara gordon himejoshi (@snarbages) reported 57 minutes ago

  if absolute cass lets me down just know @DCOfficial its minimum 20 ebay witches on your head

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  cheesehands (@Duke0fdaytona) reported 58 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”