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 (49%)
• Sign in (32%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
London	Sign in	56 minutes ago
Yeovil	Website Down	1 hour ago
Cheltenham	Errors	1 hour ago
Preston	Website Down	3 hours ago
Kelso	Website Down	5 hours ago
Blackburn	Website Down	5 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Elon Moist (@coinyeezy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @island_trader1 major issues w ebay postage. i have never had my packages lost in years of selling and 2 lost last week. it sucks.

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  FirstLightTCG (@FirstLightTCG) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SS350Camino If you're just getting started, TCGP can be slow to build up. You'll have to balance pricing your cards competitively but not so low so that you appear to be a scammer. Ebay works great for selling off a few things relatively quickly but loses to TCGP hard at scale imo

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 10 minutes ago

  The eBay "mass accidental shipping overpricing" event continues! Sellers accept incorrect default settings and unknowingly set USPS calculated shipping to $75-$200 for items that should ship for $20 via Fedex/UPS. None of these items are ever going to sell! Potentially millions of items. The damage caused is hard to calculate, but it's certainly severe. Yes, the shipping is technically correct for the incorrect size/weight that is a seller's default -- USPS is simply the wrong carrier for items of any size/weight, which they are unaware of. But instead of blaming thousands of sellers for getting the system wrong, how about eBay gets a clue and suggests an optimal shipping method? i.e. "Hey, before you proceed with that, UPS/Fedex would probably be a better option! And by the way, based on all the data we have on what you're selling, are you SURE it weights 50lb and is 20x20x24?" I mean, they are trusting AI in a million bizarre and inappropriate ways, so why are they afraid to use some intelligence to determine proper shipping? In the last 3 months, I have personally walked 50 sellers through switching their shipping to UPS/Fedex and correcting dimensions. But most will not listen and suspect that a helpful buyer is up to something. I only know all this because I am the odd person who is scouring eBay 3-5 hours a day. This is a big problem, and nobody even seems to be aware of it. Certainly eBay isn't. Either they don't know, or they don't care -- pick one.

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 11 minutes ago

  @KennethGrifter @GregIsKitty @ryancohen This too! Nat's in kind of an interesting position in that fakes like that which circumvent eBay authentication present a real brand reputation & trust problem for PSA - and PSA's existing relationship with eBay (hopefully) gives him leverage to press eBay to do more about it.

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  Miamitoehead65 (@gjjemhunter) reported 16 minutes ago

  Unsubscribe from every streaming service today. Put down your phone. You have a Bluray DVD collection. Rewatch a great movie you forgot about offline. Or buy a used DVD movie you love on ebay. Own it, don't rent it.

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  Henry (@Henry98173805) reported 18 minutes ago

  Look out! GME TAKEOVER EBAY whilst their pants are down. Caught between fiduciary duties and brazen corporate crime and theft of public company. EBay board will now have a lot of criminal proceedings as their blatant lack knowledge of how to run a business is negligible

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  Sneed Groyper (@SneedGroyp6741) reported 18 minutes ago

  @g0lden8ge Antique roadshow: unfortunately Yes. The articles about people going to yard/estate sales and picking up a painting that’s actually a super rare one that’s worth a million dollars have slowed down. If you have something worth anything you just sell it on eBay.

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  mskerri GME (@MsKerriishere) reported 20 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc More eBay info for your notes @ryancohen 👆🏻 Big issue with shipping 😳 wow

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  Doughnuts In November (@DoughnutsinNov) reported 21 minutes ago

  @horrormuseum @washghost1 That's actually my problem with that. Goodwill is meant to be for people that are struggling financially and their inventory is donated because of that. Then the organization started checking eBay and matching collector prices. Those VHS should be $2 each in a Goodwill.

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 23 minutes ago

  @TeamTradeology The problem with using LLMs for responses: “In the context of GameStop and eBay, however, there is no public evidence that GameStop is pursuing a takeover or that any exception has been arranged.” First part completely false. GameStop has publicly and legally declared its intent and is doing so on an ongoing basis. Second part is true-ish but still misses reality: the board rejected the offer and thus there is definitively no arrangement in place. Which is why I said they have to be careful about Delaware 203.

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  needabetteralt (@needabetteralt) reported 26 minutes ago

  Whelp, went down the bricks & minifigs rabbit hole this morning. As an aside, wife and son built legos together; they love getting the high end sports car kits and whooo boy are they salty priced. She was just talking yesterday about getting new kits on ebay and whatnot for less than retail. Gonna make damn sure they stay away from that resale shop. If any of you lego nerds have input on where to hunt for these kits, lmk so I can support their shenanigans.

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  ERIN・Gazoline6725 💥 (@Gazoline6725) reported 33 minutes ago

  I wish the spudsy's gangle plush wasn't the cost of a down payment on ebay right now.

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  Warren H. Cohn (@WarCo1) reported 33 minutes ago

  @DanielW40094974 Imagine turning down billions and then watching the buyer update the offer the same way eBay buyers update watchlists. Offer: $4B Declined. Offer: $3.7B Declined. Offer: $3.4B Declined. Offer: “Best I can do is store credit and a graded base card.” Board: “We’re maximizing shareholder value.” Shareholders: “Are you though?” @ryancohen @gamestop

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  Maya the reeling (Canada GP WHAT) (@kuriyare) reported 35 minutes ago

  McLaren has completed FEWER laps than ASTON MARTIN??? Yo Zak can you get someone to fix the damn cars, you didn’t buy them off ebay they’re supposed to be more reliable than that

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  PerkyTank (@PerkyTank) reported 35 minutes ago

  @heydomoshi @ryancohen @ValueAddedRS May 6 - Ryan Cohen sells stuff on eBay to buy eBay May 13 - Ryan Cohen raises more than $70,000 via eBay listings If someone wants to track down the exact number he raised, I'd be grateful. I'm assuming each item went for at least $2k.

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  Norm E. (@normyist) reported 40 minutes ago

  eBay needs to tell their legal department to calm down.

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  GearHead HP (@grhdhp) reported 44 minutes ago

  @DiligentDenizen Everyone using Grok and this platform contributes to the high demand of these datacenters. Same goes for Facebook, ChatGPT, Amazon, Uber, EBay, Netflix, Google and the rest. How about addressing the high demand issue first?

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  The Broken Teacher (@Defilife_ape) reported 44 minutes ago

  This is one of the worst eBay authentication stories I’ve read yet. An eBay Employee Bought My $10,000 Card. What Happened Next Is Insane How An eBay Employee Used eBay’s Own Authentication Mistake To Reverse A $10,000 Card Sale Looking for opinions from the hobby because this one is wild. On May 17th I sold what was believed to be the first publicly available Steph Curry Finest Fans Gold redemption on eBay for $10,000. After the sale, I noticed the item was not routing through Authentication Guarantee and appeared to be shipping directly to the buyer. Wanting protection for both sides, I called eBay Authentication directly. I explained exactly what the item was and was instructed by Authentication to cancel the transaction and relist the item a specific way so it would route through their program. I followed those instructions exactly. The buyer was fully aware of the situation, knew it was a redemption, knew why the transaction was being canceled and relisted, and knowingly repurchased the card under the new listing. I then spent hundreds of dollars overnighting the redemption from the breaker to myself and overnighting it again to authentication. A few days later eBay physically received the item, inspected it, released it, and shipped it to the buyer. At the exact same time eBay also emailed saying the item was miscategorized and ineligible for Authentication Guarantee. So according to eBay: * The item was accepted. * The item was inspected. * The item was released. * The item was shipped. But somehow it was also ineligible. Meanwhile the market for the card dropped significantly as additional copies surfaced publicly. The buyer, who represented himself as working around eBay/authentication operations and whose messages I will post, is now using that exact technical authentication issue as the basis for an Item Not As Described return despite fully understanding the situation before the second transaction was ever completed. To make matters worse, I now have screenshots showing eBay support instructing the buyer how to file the return. The card delivered was exactly the card purchased. The buyer knew it was a redemption. The buyer knew about the authentication issue. The buyer repurchased after full disclosure. So my question is simple: How is a seller supposed to protect themselves when eBay tells you how to list an item, processes it through authentication, ships it to the buyer, and then allows a return based on the very issue eBay created? I have every screenshot, email, timestamp, tracking update, and conversation documenting the entire timeline and will post them below. @ebay maybe let @GameStop try this for a bit.

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  KidsMeal (@Kidsmealstudios) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ShaunFitzzzy Thanks man. I had issues with eBay awhile ago where they kept taking down my listings. I’m going try again in the future.

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  Topspin Assassin (@dankourny) reported 48 minutes ago

  @BoilerPaulie $ebay stock is up 78% over the last 5 years through today and $gme stock is down 52% over that same period. That is a staggeringly bad relative performance. No one other than current GME shareholders wants Cohen anywhere near EBAY.

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  ☣️ Flack The Ripper ☣️ (@FlackAtk) reported 50 minutes ago

  @TaylorNorris02 @SamsClub Any condition orher than what it was presented at, is damaged, everyone has this in place for a reason, get something broken or not as described off ebay, getaway refund/replacement, basic services and goods moron

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  computer toucher (@computertouch3r) reported 54 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc Except one time for me it was way under what it really cost. I shipped a big 1U server - eBay said 30 ish dollars but USPS charged me close to a 100.

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  Venus☆Valentine (@_VenusValentine) reported 55 minutes ago

  Probably will just go back to eBay tbh eBay has not given nearly as many issues as Mercari has Mercari can eat my ******* shorts lol

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  Jonathan Fairbourne (@JonFairbourne) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Kyl0Z3n I’ve been saying this. There is no obligation to hold since eBay turned down the offer, GME can always come back later with more cash to try again if they really want. Also they should do well with this next earnings, stock should go up and require less dilution

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  dbirdthagreat (@dbirdthagreat) reported 56 minutes ago

  @WestCoast_Goodz How do you even find products to sell on eBay outside of the items you have in your house. Thats the issue I’m having how to find products to sell on eBay

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  steelsker (@steelsker) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Emo_Spiderman_ @LambentLucien Whether buying long out-of-print DVDs on eBay, or downloading fan restorations online, you still have to go outside of official Disney-Lucasfilm channels (for now) to consume these versions. That’s the issue. It shouldn’t be that way, and thankfully this is being rectified.

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  Kenneth Grifter (@KennethGrifter) reported 58 minutes ago

  Is eBay stock down because the only people trading it are insiders? And they are selling as fast as they can?

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  Michael Simister (@6SigmaFreak) reported 58 minutes ago

  @frozentiljly @eBay What did you get versus what you ordered? I investigate fraudulent orders and other ecommerce package error statistics. There is a DNA to these things, and although you get your money back with a chargeback, and rightfully so; the culprits still get away with it and that =fees

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 59 minutes ago

  eBay $EBAY is sitting on $6.7B in gross debt, paying $61M/quarter in interest, and about to drop $1.2B cash on Depop. Yet management just declared another $0.31/share dividend (~$556M annualized), with tomorrow (May 29) as the ex-dividend date and cash going out June 12. Buffett said it best in his 1984 letter: “Unrestricted earnings should be retained only when there is a reasonable prospect that for every dollar retained by the corporation, at least one dollar of market value will be created for owners.” eBay is returning hundreds of millions to shareholders annually while simultaneously carrying nearly $7B in gross debt at $244M in annual interest charges. That capital could be paying down debt, shoring up the balance sheet ahead of a $1.2B acquisition close, or reinvested into a platform that is visibly losing competitive ground. Instead, the company is prioritizing optics over fundamentals. Active buyers grew just 1% YoY. The platform went down for ~48 hours in April after a cyberattack. The board quietly rewrote its own oversight committee charters after settling a federal cyberstalking criminal case. Sellers are now filing class action suits over surprise fee structures. A company with genuine earnings power and a clean balance sheet paying a dividend makes sense. A leveraged platform with stagnating user growth, mounting legal exposure, and a nine-figure acquisition pending doing the same deserves serious scrutiny.

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  Cindi (@CindisParadise) reported 60 minutes ago

  @DegenRips Hearing collectors universe shut them down because of fbi investigation regarding all the missing cards popping up on eBay and being stolen by fedex along with the lawsuits