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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by eBay users through our website.
- Website Down (62%)
- Sign in (23%)
- Errors (16%)
Live Outage Map
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eBay Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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J & C Collectibles (@JC_colleccoast) reported🚨 SOS Card Peeps! Need some help ASAP please. 🚨 I received an offer on My Acuff 1/1 card on eBay. The guy offered me a fair price and is now negotiating with me…I’m totally fine with that, but in our chat (on eBay) the user name keeps changing…when I click on the first name at the top of the chat it seems like he is a legit seller/buyer. When the other name pops up, it says “error” Is someone trying to scam me or is this some kind of issue with eBay’s messaging?!? Thanks in advance!
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Mr Hankey (@hivanchi) reported@eBay your platform is hurting buyers(im also a seller) The return process is broken. Theres no way to talk to people in the US, either by message or call. Some of your reps read the same script over and over again. Ask you for useless information that leads nowhere.
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Cori (DemShenaniganss) 🦝 | #TDST ⚡️ (@DemShenanigans) reported@Artemishowl_ Former SH staff circa early days (2010s) here: Can confirm, ebay kept the **** parts and got rid of the people like us who made sure that the same or better upgrades were offered. Afaik even shut down the main corporate office thay used to be in CT
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FonsieTrader (@FonsieTrader) reportedThe print and the daily just shook hands. $GME is $18.72, +4.8%. The August dump from $22 landed on $18. Today it reclaimed the 20-day. First resistance is the shelf they just lost — $21.70–$22. The old green line up at ~$25.50 is a different conversation. That bounce is not a squeeze. Short float is 13%. Cap is $8.4 billion. The letter this morning is the real story. Sales $780–$800 million, down. Operating income $150–$170 million, up. Cash ~$5.06 billion after they turned the eBay derivative into 43.4 million shares worth ~$4.95 billion. Net income is stuffed with a $238 million eBay mark and a $75 million digital-asset hole. Full results September 8. So $18 is only “perfect” if you are buying a tighter store plus a $5 billion eBay box — not if you are buying 2021. The level that kills the bounce is a loss of $18. The level that makes it a trade is a hold above $22. Retailer, holdco, or dead-cat — which one is $18.72? $GME $EBAY Not investment advice.
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Regan Reyzja (@ReganReyzja) reportedThe success and likeability of the Victoire has had a terrible effect on their ebay hockey card pricing
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slicko (@haribo4me) reported@GoatBeardzDD @MaiDuat31103 When company A acquires company B, doesn’t the stock price of A typically go down while B goes up? So in this case shouldn’t we expect GME to dip if they are successful at acquiring eBay?
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Uma Kompton (@RIPUmaKompton) reported@ultra_kitsch @offbeatorbit Not the same as an awesome apartment ofc but I got a $300 dress with tags for $6 on eBay because the pictures were so terrible 😭 will never forget it
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Victory Gundam V1 (@Gundam_mf) reported@SylusMk2 I found the metal fix on eBay for like 1k Gl, the hummingbird figure is like a mythological creature at this point
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Chase Jordan (@goatcollect) reportedFollowing the clear confusion between labeling a jersey with a MEARS letter game used, I am hearing @eBay and @GoldinCo have finally decided to change their policies. No word on exactly what the shift is, but it is clear @eBay has recognized the liability created by selling objects as game used that their own internal team would clearly have reason to believe are not. Times have changed and credit to eBay for responding to it. Probably saved themselves from big issues down the road.
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Kiro (@KiroIkigai) reportedThe most reliable way to misread an earnings report is to start at the bottom line. $GME just posted preliminary net income up roughly 78% on net sales down roughly 19%. Both numbers are real. Only one of them is about the business. The quarter, company figures: -net sales: $780M to $800M, vs $972.2M a year ago -net income: $290M to $310M, vs $168.6M -operating income: $150M to $170M, vs $66.4M The bridge from falling sales to rising profit is one line. Roughly $238M of gains on an eBay derivative asset and an equity investment, less roughly $75M of digital-asset losses. about $163M of pre-tax marks. For scale: that eBay exposure is carried at about $4.947B. the company books about $790M of sales in a quarter. when the portfolio is that big, the income statement is partly a report on the portfolio. Credit where due: operating income more than doubled. that is a bigger percentage jump than the net income line everyone quotes. smaller, tighter, better-run retailer. real progress. not the headline story. Keep this part: -net income up while revenue is down: find the non-operating line first. it is usually one line, and it is usually named -size the securities book against the operating result. a $5B position swamps a sub-$200M quarter, in both directions -falling sales with improving operating income is a cost story. real, but a different story from the headline I am fully invested, and none of this changes that. guidance direction and price reaction have been disagreeing all earnings season. last Thursday five of seven reporters raised guidance and four of the seven closed lower. reading the price as the verdict on the numbers is the error. The case against: I may be underselling the operating turn, which more than doubled at every point of the guided range. and these are preliminary figures. no call is scheduled, and complete results are due September 8. $GME $EBAY
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AXISPAW (@AXISPAW) reported@KJovian Dude bought a broken one off Ebay for clicks
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James Sager:Father of the Smart Phone,AI,Techaform (@JamesSager) reported@grok @iamelijahfloyd @Grok I bought several magnets like that on ebay in order to work on a SRM motor... How would they be mounted so they're engaged to slow a metal disc like a tire rim?
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Tyler (@SeeifIhaveit) reportedBeware 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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kitchen witchen 🏳️⚧️ (@kitchen_witchen) reported@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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Byron Vallis (@Byronnn6) reported@calvinfroedge Free shipping and eBay fees will knock this down to like $4.5 my friend. Better luck next time
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GamerTex (@GamerTex) reported@card_history @UpperDeckSports In 1999 Upper Deck told me about a few of the first Patch cards ever made. The best and worst as they put it. The WORST was a yet unreleased employee card with a distinct error i how the patch was inserted. A few months later the first Jordan employee card was released. After years of looking I never found the Jordan card that was described. The 'best' patch they described is attached. I found it after years of searching the newsgroups, sportsnet and ebay.
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Eric McCurry (@eric_mcCurry) reported@RussellCartwr18 Thanks man. I'm having trouble finding the robe by itself on eBay, Mercari, and Facebook marketplace. Might try Craigslist too
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Dustin Winter (@bluemagephoto) reported@TucsonToucan @SaffronOlive I have seen worse out of WotC. I remember War of the Spark: Mythic Edition on eBay and ordering 2 of them. WotC had 12k units and a "glitch" caused over 40k to be sold. I ended up with an uncut M/R foil sheet as my order was canceled. After that WotC started Secret Lair.
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Pokémon Deals, Restock and Alerts (@PokemonRestockr) reported@Pacho9_3 It looks like eBay just took down another seller of the 30th pre orders. Seems only seasoned sellers like footballpete and a few others are actually safe. I think I’ll avoid posting 30th eBay links regardless moving forward until September 16th
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Teddy.com (@teddy__com) reported@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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maeve (@lizziedossss) reported@TheShazamPow i actually looked this up the other day. its technically a grey area but it is blacklisted from ebay. so yes its a problem if you sell it but apparently owning it is fine?
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ᴅᴏɴᴏᴠᴀɴ² 🇺🇸🇬🇧 (@arcanedonovan) reported@PunchingCat @michiganstan25 i put them on ebay for my house down payment
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Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reportedPayPal'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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♋️nahgem💫 (@danisnotesquire) reported@MarButHockey i bought boxes. and cards off ebay. some of the ebay cards are like im buying cards For my sid and geno cards. this is a Real Problem.
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Nigel J Bevans Photo (@NJBDP) reported@hmefsww Hi, unfortunately I closed my website store down as they were charging a ridiculous amount to sell things. To keep prices reasonably I had to find an alternative and only have eBay at moment. I could do it via paypal cutting out ebay if you would like?
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cheddar (@cheddar420yolo) reported@IndefiniteLT @VibesMBSE it was before my time but part of CARTER lore is they took a rogue wave shifting home ports from northeast to Bangor. a water column came down the hatch and the ship's computer was right there they had to get the replacement computer from ebay that was the story anyway
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Blitz (@PeriBlitzV2) reported@Digggon the type of game the MC of a creepypasta would buy off ebay, see charmander get brutually decapitated in it, and then shurg it off thinking it was just a weird glitch
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Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reportedPull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬
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Koda (@koda6699) reportedThe photograph that disappeared for 150 years Richard Carrington was an astronomer. In 1859, he looked through a telescope and saw something nobody had recorded before. A huge flash erupted from the Sun. Less than a day later, a powerful solar storm hit Earth. Telegraph systems failed. Auroras appeared far beyond their usual range. The event became known as the Carrington Event. But there was one strange problem. Nobody knew what Carrington looked like. No photograph of him could be found. For decades, historians searched museums and archives for a missing portrait. Nothing. Then, in 2025, an archivist at the Royal Astronomical Society checked something much less obvious. eBay. She found an old photograph being sold by a shop in Pittsburgh. The seller had simply listed it as: “Photo of Mr Carrington.” It was him. On the back, faint writing gave another clue: “R C Carrington, Esquire for C V Walker, Esquire.” The photograph had been missing for about 150 years. Now it has a home in the Royal Astronomical Society archives.
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Mojo 🇺🇸 (@QMojo8) reported@OffDaHook35 Sold some slabs at LCS today and narrowed my pc down to a small box. I have a 2000 card lot on eBay to sell the rest. A lot are cards from packs I ripped this year. LCS wouldn’t even look at them