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 (48%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Reading	Website Down	58 minutes ago
Wakefield	Errors	3 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	3 hours ago
Poplar	Sign in	13 hours ago
Madison	Sign in	14 hours ago
Dubuque	Errors	17 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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  C Le (@CLEstorm789) reported 5 minutes ago

  @eBay Can you please explain why users can no longer send any messages over the app ? It only works on a browser or laptop/pc.. and it is a widespread problem because I'm finding a lot of people with this issue online . Started 3 days ago.. what are you doing to fix it right now?

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  Its a mad world (@realmaduk) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ultramikes @eBay Guess we’ll have to wait for another update hopefully fixes the issue. I’ve even tried deleting and reinstalling same thing

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  Norbert Sykes (@Sykes4Norbert) reported 10 minutes ago

  @bavedikian @BestBuy @FedEx You have NO IDEA!!! I ordered a laptop through Best Buy's eBay page. When it was delivered, I received a heavy piece of steel in a box. I reported it to eBay, who assured me they were "on my side" and told me to arrange a return with the seller (who had already denied the entire thing. The seller finally responded and sent me a return number. I returned it, and the seller accused ME of fraud, and eBay accused ME of returning items fraudulently and "suspended my account. I finally filed a complaing with the BBB and my credit card company and someone high up in Best Buy corporate said they found "issues" with my order. eBay still refused to re-enable my account.

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  Finn (@finn53157685) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CommanderFemboi I got the same problem with my massive Dark Angels army, and I can't be bothered breaking it up and selling it all bit by bit on eBay.

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  Manchester Dude (@ManchesterHunk) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Tom_Rowsell A household member sold a tech part for a PC on Ebay and the buyer was local. They came to do pay on collection instead of us post it, and a black BMW filled with Africans came round. No reason for all the squad to accompany but it went without issue. Whites drop round alone.

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  Sunk Cost Pharisee (@Liamjsm) reported 20 minutes ago

  @eBay How do I get ahold of a human being who works at ebay? I have a serious issue I need resolved and your help/contact pages just push me into a loop of prompts

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  Alexander Swenson (@_Swence_) reported 21 minutes ago

  This is super misleading. Ai doom and gloom is getting out of control. Just try calling: • Verizon • AT&T • Comcast • Microsoft • Amazon • Google • Apple • Chase • Bank of America • Capital One • Wells Fargo • Walmart • Target • eBay • Geico • Progressive • State Farm None of these huge American companies use American call centers. Those “American jobs” fear-mongers cry about weren’t staying here anyway - they’re not even here now. They were all shipped overseas (India, Philippines, etc.) AI handling the routine stuff (password resets, billing) can actually bring better service back stateside while keeping humans for complex issues. The real threat to US customer service jobs was offshoring. AI might finally help reverse it. Stop the panic.

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  Coin Shot ☁️ (@CoinSh0t) reported 23 minutes ago

  A 21-year-old made $300,000 selling silent AI rigs to indie founders. He builds them for $1,000 and they kill $5,000-a-month cloud AI bills. He'd never built a PC, and Claude wrote the whole setup. Here's the build: You need 4 things. → Used RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM ($500) → Ryzen 7 CPU and motherboard bundle ($250) → 64GB DDR4 RAM ($150) → Silent case with passive cooler and PSU ($100) Total cost is around $1,000 if you shop Facebook Marketplace and eBay. Order all four parts from Facebook Marketplace and eBay. Snap the CPU into the socket and mount the passive cooler on top. Install Ubuntu Server with the NVIDIA driver pre-loaded. Have Claude write the Ollama config that loads Llama 70B at startup. Plug it into a closet outlet and forget about it. The whole rig sits in a closet and makes zero noise. A startup founder was paying $5,000 a month for OpenAI credits. He plugged this rig into a spare closet outlet. His team queries it like ChatGPT through a local URL. He never hears it run. By month two, his cloud bill dropped to zero. He sells his to indie founders, AI startups, and small agencies running support bots. You can sell yours to coding assistants, marketing automation shops, podcast transcript services, or any business burning thousands on tokens. Hardware cost: $1,000 to $1,500. Selling price: $4,000 to $10,000. The hardest part was never the hardware. It was noticing that startups will pay anything to stop the bleed. Find any team burning cash on API tokens and ship them a closet.

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  mae ♡ || TADC SPOILERS (@forgetmaenott) reported 24 minutes ago

  @rainlacee from the glitch productions store! sometimes people resell them on ebay and mercari as well but your best bet is glitch

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  Haloperidoll (@lithiatedyke) reported 30 minutes ago

  @citrusgirlpaige No the date on that order. Ebay clamped down on people selling them years ago. I was 15 when I made the order 😭

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  Eric Flood (@EricFlo19671974) reported 31 minutes ago

  @esherifftv Theres this wierd stigma to motherhood ive noticed. When I was in for my A&P one of my instructors had a stay at home wife. Granted she ran their ebay page. She quit telling people about the mom part and said she ran a business from the home because they looked down on her for it

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  Ultimate break 82 (@Kesbo450) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Steamjunk1997 @NotImportantUs1 Definitely not true cause my gamepad broke a couple years ago and the one I bought from eBay synced no problem

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  oowgn (@oowgn) reported 35 minutes ago

  @horsepower Rent NZXT PC Acquire broken RTX 5080 on ebay Swap backplates on broken and working GPU to swap serial numbers "Hey NZXT the PC you sent me doesn't boot"

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  Just J (@TheGapRock) reported 37 minutes ago

  Deeply disappointed in @eBay and @PayPal for their handling of an issue with a Seller on eBay. Allowing the sale of fraudulent products and expecting buyer (me) to return the knock-off product to China at my expense - when the SELLER used photos of licensed product.

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  MagnumPrime (@MagnumPrime) reported 37 minutes ago

  I see people are still make terrible Bowman Baseball listing decisions on eBay. Just take a few minutes to look on eBay sold listings before you list your numbered card at BIN for 80% less than the other sellers FFS.

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  Andy McQuade (@Andy_McQuade) reported 39 minutes ago

  @bethanyjbabcock @Apple There's people on ebay who fix these up and resell them. They replace the battery, put a ssd in place of the spinning hard drive, replace the screens & reprogram them so they are plug & play to you. My son rocks a last-generation (2019) ipod touch, which is like a phone, but we use screentime to restrict what's on there. Wifi only, facetime and texting works, but we remove Siri, Safari and the App Store. Great way to teach responsibility with a device without the ability to doomscroll.

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  HBK (@TommyTasty) reported 39 minutes ago

  @lachlanscards Does just starting a eBay account mean you’re poor? Or a kid? I get what you’re saying but I’ve sold to many (0) accounts and never an issue. People love Ohtani. I could easily see someone doing this. Plus that card is so expensive and doesn’t look shilled at all

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  'Toba Ariyo 👷🏗️🚧 (@Toba_Ariyo) reported 40 minutes ago

  @dpreciousson @dinho_1545 Order the part on eBay and fix it. YouTube video to rescue except it is electric and involves wiring/cabling.

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  alb2m2 (@alb2m2) reported 41 minutes ago

  My server is a used desktop PC. Intel i5-10600K (6 cores / 12 threads) 16GB DDR4 RAM AMD RDNA4 GPU — added separately, for reasons I'll get to I didn't buy new. A 3-year-old PC on eBay for ~$350. The components are more than capable for this workload.

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  Brett Jackman (@Benny7563) reported 43 minutes ago

  @CochlearErrans @sneedweb Problem lies in that it is considered a group and would be additive effectively activating the EBAY poison pill (board self defense mechanism).

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  ctfw529 (@ctfw529) reported 44 minutes ago

  @zw8819100 @Lanipator It really is. In both pics I’m holding at about the same height, but even down on like a table, it still does the signal, just a lot bigger and not as sharp. But yeah, this one and the alien Romulus one, which I just ordered off of eBay, are the only ones I’ve ever wanted, lol

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  H. Mincherley (@WanderingSadu) reported 45 minutes ago

  The problem is "ooh it's on for £50 on eBay..." Yes to a national audience and that may not be the price it actually sells at. Plus eBay sellers have fees and maybe vat.

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  Dirk Steffen (@teknopunk_com) reported 46 minutes ago

  @GFreiNews 600 EUR easily buys a very solid starter kit to produce proper coffee if one is willing to learn to use an espresso machine and is handy in basic maintainance themselves. La Pavoni Professional 300-400,- on eBay Mazzer Super Jolly Dosato 150-250,- on eBay You need to factor in a full seal service kit for the La Pavoni depending on condition (~30 EUR). The coffee you will be making will easily rival any espresso based coffee you will be able to purchase in 98% of Cafés in your German city, even if you use regular 15 EUR/kg super market grade beans. Once you know how to use this gear properly, you want to look into upgrading the grinder to one with an electronic doser and down the road the espresso machine to an E61 group based machine with the features you value or just stick with the old fully manual lever machine.

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  Argyle Porkupine (@argyleporkupine) reported 47 minutes ago

  Why sleep when you can stay up and watching ebay auctions count down?

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  🎰⁷ (@ilovemyweedpen) reported 49 minutes ago

  me when i sell sports cards to girlies and nb folks: ohhh let me round the price down!! me when i sell sports cards to ebay sports bros: 150%

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  @charlie10k (@charlie10k) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Gill490413 I love the bad stuff. It's very dark...I have been known to follow terrible stuff on eBay.

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  🐝🇬🇷 (@bee_fumo) reported 58 minutes ago

  @gnukeith I wonder if these will be enterprise devices and down the line you'll get them for a fraction of the price on ebay, much like thinkpads.

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  Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) reported 59 minutes ago

  A broken laser pointer. On Labor Day weekend in 1995, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched the site (originally called AuctionWeb) from his living room as a personal project. He listed his own broken laser pointer, which he had bought for about $30 but stopped working after a couple of weeks, to test the platform. He was upfront in the listing that it didn’t work, even with new batteries. It sold for $14.83 to a buyer named Mark Fraser (a collector of broken laser pointers, according to the legend). The sale happened shortly after the site went live on September 3, 1995. This quirky first transaction is often cited as the perfect symbol for eBay: turning something worthless into value through online auctions. Does anyone still use eBay?

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  Tony Denaro (@Tony_Denaro) reported 1 hour ago

  @Chicken__Head Nothing against GME - I truly want to see Cohen take over eBay and believe he will do whatever necessary to get that done. And I'd love to see it. I sold on May 1 into the evening run up because 1) it presented a great profit opportunity for my $20ish cost basis and 2) the rumor of acquiring EBAY was likely to drop GME's price. It is a pretty normal dynamic in takeovers that the target price goes up, acquirer goes down. Finally, 3) it was not the 'buy a cheap cash-flowing business at a discount in a market crash' use of cash I had envisioned. Instead it is a "buy an expensive company at a premium while taking on an enormous amount of leverage and creating enormous execution risk." I think most $GME social mediua accounts sidestep, minimize or ignore the risk-side of the offer, which is par for the course for social media and why everyone acts confused why the price is coming down despite a great quarterly result. None of this means I will avoid re-buying $GME. It just means I am waiting for a good price (in my judgement) to minimize my risk and I figured it would come back down to close to $20 - we are almost there. Take profits, wait, re-buy. My normal M.O.

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  Corner Card Collector (@CCCollectorTCG) reported 1 hour ago

  @FeistSportsCard I do because I sell mostly low end cards anything over $20. I do ground advantage. And I rarely have an issue. I think I’ve had two items not received this past week. Both of them were from orders placed over the Memorial Day weekend one scanned in last night after they had sent the INR honestly it works. Is it slow yes but it does work and hopefully with eBay changing how the label looks it will decrease the amount of items not getting scanned.