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 (23%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Schleswig	Sign in	1 hour ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 hours ago
Birmingham	Errors	7 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	8 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	13 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	22 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Card Throne (@cardthrone) reported 1 minute ago

  I run Card Throne with a handful of Grok Bots. Each one owns a job. They don't all sit in one chat answering random questions. Scout does sourcing. Japanese inventory, carts, what to buy next. Grading plays and margins off my actual fees and costs. It never checks out. I still have to say purchase. Build is engineering. It only works on Card Throne Room, our seller tool. Scan a stack of cards, list to eBay, inventory management. When it's real code, it summons a cloud agent with pstack /poteto-mode. Throne runs the storefronts. Brings me the issues that actually have to move that day. Ledger does the books. Payouts, fees, receipts, the monthly P&L. Sentry monitors for any Card Throne Room bugs and pings Build if something needs fixed. Chief sits on top so I'm not pinging six bots to find out whose job a thing is. I still make the final calls.

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  Dom Cardboard (@DomCardboard) reported 2 minutes ago

  Ever buy or sell cards internationally on eBay? This appears to be the WRONG way to do it, where the card description and declared value shows outside the package. We have enough trouble dealing with postal theft, no need to make it easier. I've heard one way to avoid this is to denote the cards you're shipping as 'picture cards' or as a gift when filling out the forms. To the experienced, is that accurate?

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  T-Bob Hebert (@TBob53) reported 3 minutes ago

  I remember getting this issue in a giant haul from eBay when I was younger

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  🇺🇸davidthepatriot🇺🇸 🥃 (@96bulls00David) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JesseBallCards @eBay @CardPurchaser What’s the problem? Start your own auction house then

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  k- 🏴‍☠️ (@_goinKuu) reported 9 minutes ago

  @eBay i’ve already done this, and ran into “ Technical difficulties “ when using the call me feature. I need an actual agent asap, because this was made in error. I have nothing that violates any policy as i’ve read everything on the Policy page.

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  Paul Branham (@BoilerPaulie) reported 10 minutes ago

  Another surprise preliminary earnings announcement from $GME today premarket. I like these. The highlights: - sales down just under 20% Y/Y due to last year including the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, planned store closures, and divestiture of operations in France - operating income up over 125% Y/Y due to @ryancohen’s relentless pursuit of efficiency - net income up ~75%, aided by a large equity stake in eBay and partially offset by a mark to market loss in digital assets and receivables - cash & marketable securities down 41.7% mainly from conversion of derivative position in eBay to equity stake Official ER drop expected on September 8. They also had a separate announcement, probably bigger news for the underlying security price, that the VWAP reference period for the convertible note exchange is terminated because they are issuing cash in lieu of shares for a portion of the agreed upon debt being retired. - $358.4M in cash spent - 55.5M shares of common stock issued - approximately $1.4B of convertible debt retired, or 1/3 of the total - $2.8B in convertible debt remains, $1.1B from the Project Rocket indenture (2030) and $1.7B from the Project Wee indenture (2032) - “GameStop expects that participating noteholders may purchase or sell shares of Common Stock or enter into or unwind derivative transactions to adjust their positions, including purchases of Common Stock to close out short positions. These activities could increase or decrease the market price of the Common Stock or the Exchange Notes, and the effect may be material.” Following some volatility on the announcements, GameStop trading up about 4% premarket. 4h chart shown here.

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  🕯️ (@sixlinekenner) reported 10 minutes ago

  resolution to not buy more dolls this week broken by $50 ebay pullip #yay

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  Mutie LVR/BLACK CAT ENJOYER (@Ashrah76) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Terrell352 @shinobi602 If Sony goes offline that means I won’t have access to the stuff I wanna do anyway and will be forced to play offline always a terrible argument and separate issue I purchased 26 comics off eBay this past month they “phasing out if books is going to take far longer than

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  Bird Dog Gaming (@BirdDogGaming) reported 12 minutes ago

  It’s so easy to open your phone, hop on eBay and buy a PS2 game Any time I want to add an NES game to the collection I have to sit down and figure out what inserts came with it and which variant I want to buy and THEN dig through listings to see if there’s even a CIB listed

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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 17 minutes ago

  Day 205 Total sales: $294.97 eBay earnings: $210.61 Buy cost (COG): $35.98 Net profit: $174.63 ROI: 485% Items sold: Printer ink, bicycle electronics, water pump, & weather equipment. Not every day is going to be a huge sales day & that's okay. Today was only 4 sales & just under $300 in total sales, but the margins were excellent. Almost $175 in net profit from $36 in buy cost is a pretty solid day. This is another reason I try not to judge the business based on sales volume alone. Profitability matters. The goal is to keep building a store with inventory that has: Good margins Strong demand Multiple categories Room to adjust pricing Long term selling potential And when things are slower, that's when I can focus on the work behind the scenes, refreshing old listings, fixing listings that aren't performing, adjusting stale prices, & getting more inventory listed. A slow day doesn't mean you're going backward. Keep pushing. Keep improving. Keep stacking the wins. The big days will come. 📦💪 205 days down. On to Day 206.

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  Cary (@ThatWsoxfan) reported 21 minutes ago

  @C_Landy84 I’ve had amazing luck with them actually. You have put a bid down early, monitor it, then set a reminder in phone to check eBay with 10 min left on the clock for bid ending Then with about 2 min left up your bid, wait for someone to beat it then with 10 secs up it again

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  LS (@LSXYZ9_TCG) reported 23 minutes ago

  Making an informative post here about High-end #Riftbound market prices and stuff to be aware of after talking with several other high-end people, and also corroborating some of the prices on select items w/ @SehnbonTCG and others. As I'm seeing so much discussion on prices of cards/sales history on my timeline. I think it's important for there to be data points people can use, and then of course verification of things. So much discussion on Ahri/Jinx/Teemo card variants and also T1 boxes/signatures and misc rare items. Here is what certain letters will mean next to sale points: nc = noncompleted. pc = pure cash. c+t = cash and trade. t = trade. t = pure trade. o = offer. ? = Supposedly exists but I can't find anyone to 100% confirm. Best-Of Ahri: 46.2k (c+t), 30k, 30.3k, 30k, 32k, 42k, 35k, 40k, 50k, 45k, 115k, 133k, 270k (c+t), 200k< (? pc attempting to verify) is the the timeline of this cards sales not including exchanges of hands Best-Of Jinx: 30k, 25k, 28.5k, 30k, 26k, 25k, 33k, 60k(?) Best-Of Teemo: 3Xk(nc), 20k, 22k, 20k, 25k, 60k (onc), ?, 80k, ? BL OGN Sig Ahri: 45.5k (c+t), 50k(pc), 35k, 40k, 52k, 60k(c+t), 80k, One currently exists on consignment iirc. PSA10 MBA Black Diamond did NOT cause the PSA price to go up. BL SFD Sig Ahri: 16k, 18k, 20k(pc), 24k, 25k, 30k, 39k, 31k(c+t), 35k, 32k + Wild reported price points that aren't reflected in ebay auctions or requests BL Kai'Sa Sig: 32.5k, 40k, 45k, ? / Currently 2 are attempting to be sold w/ offers as high as 70k-80. BL GGEZ Teemo: 22k, 20k, 16k(pc), 25k, 20k(pc), 30k, 55k, 45k BL Panda Teemo: 10k, 45k, ? Other known BL Sigs: Various price points between 8k to 25k on recent sales, with the MF BL sale at 39k being most notable. Viktor jumped around from high 4's to almost 30k to now recently having been sold for low 20's. Lee Sin also has some interesting price points similar. Prizewall Metals: Highest sale point was 35k for Ahri and 20k+ for Teemo, several pure cash ones around 20~25k mark. Prize walls have been crashing hard recently. I believe as people realize PSA doesn't mean anything and so prices are starting to reflect the standard 10-12x divider of the best-Ofs + market correction. T1 English boxes: Lots of sales did happen at 9k+ price points. But there is a plethora of comps publicly searchable on Twitter/FB/etc around 3~4k. Current Ebay sales are around 4.5~5.5k The thing about the boxes is that you stand to open a Faker 20% of the time, and so their price is carried a bit by that. Figuring out a proper multipler on a sealed one risk is tricky. Watching how sale points go for Doran/Oner/Guma/Keria will affect the ebb and flow of boxes early on. Watching the current live auctions will be a good indicator of how things for sealed is going to turn out on these. Unlike Korean, English sealed boxes gain less by remaining sealed due to the absence of the godbox potential. T1 Korean boxes: These started at $3k~ and have gone down to $1.7~$2.1k steady, which is more impressive than ENG variant crash imo. It should be known that they [can] be found locally in Korea at price points between $943 USD to $1.4k USD range. They have gone up and down the past two weeks. To search these yourself go on bunjang dot co dot kr and search: 리프트바운드 T1 시그니처 . You can often be ghosted by the lister and the other scary thing about this is you need to confirm you're dealing with a Korean inside of Korea - otherwise the person can take the money and not deliver and Korean police will have no ability to do anything. Korean's are tied to their KSSN and can be tracked. Generally shipping is also a nightmare internationally and can add a lot of costs. Usually you'll need to pay a Korean to assist with these things due to the risk involved and headaches that can follow Korean T1 boxes have the godbox chance (0.4%) to get a signed box by the players. I expect there to be a clash on Korean vs English of select serials just going off requests/offers. T1 Chinese boxes: Like the Korean ones these are going for around $1200, but can be sourced locally in China for lower. Unfortunately these are harder to search than the Korean ones without assistance from someone who can make accounts on the sites. They can be found locally in China for as low as $650 in rare occasions. Unsure of the process of getting these out of China. Usually it involves a multi-step process and then the shipping also like Korea is a nightmare to anywhere outside of APAC regions. I don't see/get asked about these much at all, but honestly when I see some of the big sales in China from chinese collectors there might actually be more value to these than most people think. [IF] you hit the ultra rare serials lol. Random Best-Of's: Middle popular ones: Seems floor is around 35k~50k range. Non popular ones: The floor seems to be just below 20k where they are actively selling currently for a lot of the cards, but some have seen sales at low 10's. A general good rule for Best-Of's is to multiply the cards metal price for famous cards by 10-12x, and by 4-6x for non-popular ones. Misc rare things/limited promos: - Sealed Project K - Very hard to get data points on this, fast sales seem to be possible around 30k. - Riot VIP Summit mats/boxes - Very hard to get data points on this as well. For Ebay sale price point data, one of the most important things to do is 'see original listing' and check when/how/who did the bidding war. Even if you can't see the ID you can still see if it was just a battle of 2 people the entire time. This is unfortunately one of the potentially unfortunate sides of high-end because you can't tell if the auction is even legit. We saw this happen on a few Kai'Sa PSA10 auctions where the bidding history didn't make any sense and other BIN's sitting around didn't reflect the sudden bid-war. An example of a healthy bid-war that looks real you can search the BL SFD Ahri from July (both). Going to conclude with this: It seems like some stuff has slowed down and a market correction is going on, but at the same time some seem interested to prevent it. There is a need for transparency on these items and I hope this tweet can act as a source for some of it. Additionally I've heard claims of higher sell points on some cards but there is nothing reasonable for me to confirm it and so you won't see the numbers in this post. I'll likely end up discussing more stuff in a video at a later point. If you have questions feel free to DM my main @LSXYZ9 but please note I can be slow to reply depending on volume of messages on some days. I've been doing high-end collecting of MTG/PKMN/YGO for about 9 years now, but obviously I'm treating it a lot more serious with Riftbound because I love the game. Soon I'll be having a better data tracker for difficult to find sale data, and I'll also be having a website to help with things like this.

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  Han Akamatsu 赤松 (@Han_Akamatsu) reported 23 minutes ago

  $GME GameStop’s preliminary Q2 FY2026 numbers are out: 1) So revenue looks ugly at first glance, down roughly 18–20% YoY. But GameStop specifically attributes that to the prior year Nintendo Switch 2 launch, planned store closures, and divesting its French operations. 2) The much more interesting number is operating income. They’re expecting $150–170M versus $66.4M last year, meaning operating profit has more than doubled despite materially lower revenue. 3) There’s an important caveat with that $290/310M net income, though. It isn’t all coming from GameStop’s underlying retail business. GameStop says Q2 includes approximately: +$238M net gains related to its eBay derivative/equity investment −$75M loss on digital assets and related receivables. So we shouldn’t look at $300M net income and conclude the core business suddenly generated $300M. 4) And that huge decline from $8.694B → $5.06B cash/securities isn’t simply GameStop burning $3.6B. A major reason is that GameStop converted its eBay derivative exposure into direct eBay equity, which moves those assets out of the cash/cash-equivalents/marketable-securities bucket shown here. 5) The most important number here is the operating income of $150–170M, on only $780–800M revenue. At the midpoint, that’s roughly: $160M / $790M = 20.3% operating margin. Versus: $66.4M / $972.2M = 6.8% last year. That’s a massive margin expansion. That operating income jump is arguably the strongest part of these prelims. Full Q2 results are currently scheduled for September 8. *TLDR: Revenue ↓ -19% Operating income ↑ +141% Net income ↑ +78% Operating margin 6.8% → 20%

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  Card Shop Guys Podcast (@Card_Shop_Guys) reported 27 minutes ago

  As most of us know, there have been plenty of people opening and selling 30th anniversary product early across Whatnot and other platforms. Over the past week TPCi has decided to put their foot down, specifically with sellers on Ebay. Several sellers have been contacted by Ebay and informed that their early listings for raw Pokemon cards from the 30th anniversary set have been taken down. Ebay claims the listings were in violation of their stolen product policy. I wonder if TPCi will go after Whatnot themselves and other platforms to root out the source of the problem....

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  josh (@heyitspixel69) reported 28 minutes ago

  People really need to look at where GameStop's profitability is actually coming from. The core retail business isn't funding any of these investments because store revenue keeps dropping year after year. ​The cash pile being parked in Treasury bonds and eBay stock came directly from diluting shareholders and issuing convertible debt. They are basically collecting interest on capital raised by printing new stock while closing down physical locations. ​When your net income depends on yield from diluted money while total retail sales keep collapsing, you aren't seeing a business turnaround. You are just watching a retail chain slowly convert itself into a passive investment fund.

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  Richard Fitch (@Sweetfitchie) reported 34 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser How many cards are being sent now at $80? I doubt everyone will stop. Plus ebay showed me a 49.99 grade with psa offer on a card i was looking at so some people are probably using that. This could be the new model. Prices may never come back down.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 34 minutes ago

  Lesson 8: He showed them the private labeling process how a $3.80 product becomes a "brand" in 2 weeks. He told them the process most Amazon sellers use and the process any consumer can use to launch their own product line. Step 1: find the product on Alibaba. Search by category. Compare factories. Request samples from 3 suppliers. Choose the factory with the best quality-to-price ratio and the most responsive communication. Step 2: customize the product. Most factories offer customization at the same or slightly higher unit price logo printing, color selection, material upgrades, packaging design. The buyer provides the logo file, selects the color, approves the packaging mockup, and the factory produces the branded product. The "brand" is born the moment the logo appears on the product. Step 3: order the branded units. The factory produces the order typically in 15–30 days for quantities under 1,000 units. The products ship via sea freight (cheapest, 25–40 days) or air freight (faster, 5–10 days, more expensive). Step 4: list on the selling platform. Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, or the seller's own website. Professional photos (often provided by the factory or shot at home with a lightbox). Keyword-optimized listing. Competitive pricing typically 4–8x the factory cost, depending on the market positioning. He told them the entire process from finding the factory to listing the first product takes 2–4 weeks and costs $300–$1,500 depending on the product category, the order quantity, and the shipping method. The business that most people assume requires $10,000–$50,000 in startup capital requires a laptop, an Alibaba account, and a willingness to message factories in broken English at 3 AM.

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  Tyler (@SeeifIhaveit) reported 36 minutes ago

  Beware of this eBay seller. Purchased a J Baez lot when he was hot and I had to cancel and refund him because it sold on Mercari probably 15 minutes prior. He purchased it literally as I was taking down the eBay listing. I messaged him and apologized and refunded him immediately. Well… he left negative feedback and said he never got the cards.

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  Aled Samuel 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@samuelaled) reported 36 minutes ago

  @weiran 100%, I was looking on eBay for Mac Pros with stupid amounts of ram to be able to load crazy large models but then I guess anything that isn’t Apple Silicon will be slow af

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  NigedeBrexit Protect our Women/Girls = FAR RIGHT? (@nigethugrug) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Eleise_Courtney @mrscmway Get it on eBay or second hand site and ask local mechanic to fix it !!!

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  Darren *Ego Brianiac* Richardson (@S0UNDK1LLAH66) reported 39 minutes ago

  @The_Top_Loader Your only problem with Snes controllers is the plastic decaying or the seals in the D-pad & buttons vapourising. Even those, eBay will accommodate you.

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  kitchen witchen 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kitchen_witchen) reported 43 minutes ago

  @eBay This *** AI listing system is slow as molasses in Antarctica. I could do this in half the time and not have to fix literally every step. **** offffff

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  Kevin Durham ✝️ 🕎 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@KevinDurham321) reported 43 minutes ago

  @benonwine I got a set of glasses for three quid of ebay that cut the blue-light down to a bearable level. German manufactures like BMW started this crazy escalatory battle of headlight brightness. Legislation is needed.

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  virgo_☀️♊️🌚 (@virgorising_gem) reported 45 minutes ago

  @WALKEMDOWNABE From the moment he couldn’t fix that bald patch , I knew eBay he’s isn’t have any money lol

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  weasel (@pap3rw8) reported 46 minutes ago

  @dontplay_z Turning anything nostalgic or "collectible" into an investment vehicle has been terrible for hobbyists. I blame eBay.

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  WesleyTech (@WesleyTech) reported 47 minutes ago

  eBay is the king of terrible customer experiences. 1 example of many: They make you solve a captcha in order to LOG OUT of your account on the web app 🤬

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  thanh (@thanhsells) reported 49 minutes ago

  @SeeifIhaveit Fifteen minutes while you were taking the eBay listing down is brutal. That's the one that gets you.

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  Teddy.com (@teddy__com) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Bgillz7 Spoiler alert… they have lost money now. They used it to buy BTC, eBay, and treasury notes. Down $100m on BTC. Even on eBay. Up maybe $100m or so on T notes. $350m in cash out the door and an extra 7m shares. $400 in value lost on $1.4b in notes that were 0% interest.

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 50 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  Zach Lesage (@ZachLesagePTCG) reported 59 minutes ago

  I’m hoping Pokémon does something to fix the pin rally issues for this event. I’m pretty sure we’re all out of luck, but maybe like mailing a set of pins to each XP person or reprinting the pin rally pins for league / other promo stuff. Since I was competing on Friday, I didn’t get a chance to get pins. Idk if it started Thursday or not so maybe I had a chance, but everything shut down shortly after it started on Saturday. It isn’t happening on Sunday. If the rumoured reasoning of attendee safety is true, I get it. I really do. I want us all to be safe and the lines have been wild (an understatement frfr). But like as a Pokemon fan, I just want the pins for the event bc they look cool. The second hand market is about to go crazy with $500 one day only Charizard, Jirachi, and Umbreon pins lmfao. The $300 full set “scalper” eBay listings are looking like a steal rn. Like what do they even do with the pins now? Are these just gonna be ultra rare “lost relics” that get destroyed with the only few ones out there being pinned on random hats of true collectors and outrageous secondary market prices? I’m honestly just curious at this point bc I’ve already gotten over the fact that Michele, Camille, and I won’t complete a set, let alone get more than the 3 different pins we already have 😭