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 (44%)
• Sign in (37%)
• Errors (18%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Whitby	Sign in	13 minutes ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	4 hours ago
Gravesend	Website Down	5 hours ago
Leeds	Errors	5 hours ago
Plymouth	Website Down	7 hours ago
Manchester	Sign in	7 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  KevinfromWyoming 🇺🇸 (@KevinWyoming2) reported 11 seconds ago

  @DaveKluge Good job! My USB/Aux port on my 2012 Toyota RAV4 went out, and the local shop quoted me $200 to fix it. I found the part online, bought it on Ebay - new - for $15 with free shipping. It took 2 minutes to replace with a YouTube how-to video.

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  K S (@kj_kjato) reported 5 minutes ago

  @renoipgp @askebay @eBay care to look into this and shut it down?

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  CashFlowRN (@CashFlowRN) reported 6 minutes ago

  @foxenflask Your friend's framework is basically right. Let me take his questions in order. **Why stay under 10%.** Crossing 10% beneficial ownership makes GameStop a Section 16 insider in eBay — meaning short-swing profit rules apply: if GME ever sold within six months of a purchase, it would have to disgorge profits. That's a real risk if the bid fails and they want to exit. Ten percent is also the standard trigger threshold for activist-facing poison pills, so staying below it denies eBay a clean justification and keeps GME from getting frozen mid-accumulation. Note the structure they're using: GameStop holds part of its position through put/call pairs and has no voting or dispositive power over those shares unless physically settled — an option that only opened when the HSR condition was satisfied on June 3. So they can carry economic exposure beyond the reported stake while keeping *beneficial* ownership low. (Delaware §203's 15% "interested stockholder" freeze is the other ceiling, which is probably where your friend's 12.9% number came from — but Section 16 bites at 10%, five points earlier.) **Why no poison pill yet.** Almost certainly one exists "on the shelf" — pills can be adopted by board vote in a day, no shareholder approval needed. Boards don't adopt them preemptively because standing pills draw ISS/Glass Lewis fire and withhold campaigns, and adopting one now would undercut eBay's messaging that the proposal is "neither credible nor attractive" — you don't build a moat against something you've called not credible. Expect a pill within 48 hours of either GME crossing ~10% or a Schedule TO hitting EDGAR, likely with a trigger set just above GME's grandfathered position. **After the Schedule TO.** Because half the consideration is GME stock, GameStop also needs an effective S-4 (that's why everything's being filed under Rule 425 now). The offer must stay open 20+ business days. eBay's board must file a Schedule 14D-9 within 10 business days recommending for, against, or neutral. Then the board's playbook: adopt the pill (which mechanically blocks consummation — no one triggers a pill), "just say no" under Delaware's Airgas precedent, sue over disclosure, seek a white knight, or do a defensive recap/buyback. The pill means the tender itself can't close over the board's objection — it becomes a referendum and pressure device. Cohen's actual path to closing runs through a proxy fight to replace directors who'd redeem the pill, which is why he keeps saying "this will be resolved by shareholders" and the board "cannot run and hide forever". **The $500M question.** He almost certainly can't put it into EBAY stock. Once substantial steps toward a tender offer exist, Rule 14e-3 bars anyone with material nonpublic info about the offer from trading the target's stock — the exemption covers the offering *person* (GameStop the corporation), not Cohen individually. Personal EBAY purchases would also risk forming a 13(d) "group" with GME, aggregating stakes toward every threshold above. So the wise deployment is into **GME**: half the offer is GameStop stock, so the deal's value to eBay holders rises and falls with GME's price. A large, disclosed personal buy right after the S-4/TO launch (post-disclosure, so no MNPI window issue) directly supports the exchange ratio and answers the credibility attack — which he's already been previewing rhetorically, contrasting himself with eBay insiders who he says sold over $120M while buying nothing. So yes — your friend's conclusion holds. Creeping to 12.9% buys nothing except Section 16 exposure and a pill pretext. The leverage is in the tender-plus-proxy-fight route, with the sub-10% stake as anchor. One caveat since I know you've got real money in the GME wheel: this is deal-mechanics analysis, not a prediction of outcomes — hostile bids of this size fail more often than they succeed, and I'm not in a position to tell you how to position around it.

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  jackduk (@jackduk1) reported 7 minutes ago

  @KarlTurnerMP @andyburnham He couldn't even fix a bus route in Manchester, and now he's an economic mastermind? While he's on, ask him to fix Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, eBay and Starbucks while you're on. Clampet.

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  Steve287 (@Steve287) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ChiMaxwellSt @CardPurchaser @eBay At least you have the safety net of it going to eBay first, if they don’t get it you shouldn’t have an issue getting your refund, and when they do get it they’ll give their own tracking when they ship it

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  𝐁𝐒𝐏𝟑 (@RealBSP3) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JustAnOldKiller @10_X_eng They deny me that right by requiring me to surrender all of my personal information, associations, biometric identifying features, privacy, and many other things in order to operate such a business. Give us everything, or shut down. I shut down. There was no other option. If there ever was a clear-cut case of an incredibly dangerous monopoly, intentional or not, Meta created one. Competition is now all but impossible. Options have evaporated. You can't buy lots of things on Ebay and then sell them on Ebay as a business. You can sell something you bought elsewhere, but not every business model is private labeling. There has been a thriving private sales system throughout human history. Now it doesn't exist without giving all of those things up to Meta. Even yard sales have dried up. There is no more elsewhere, unless you serve yourself up to Meta on a silver platter. Local buying and selling was effectively killed off entirely by Marketplace, and the zombies that use it won't stop evangelizing until they start summoning demons trying to convince you it's the correct path. The sick part is, everyone's so hooked on the convenience (that's a ***** word) that they just won't give it up. They won't say no.

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  Gordon Hudson (@gordonhudsonnu) reported 20 minutes ago

  Here is a thought about security and mobile apps. Most apps we use are actually fixed web browsers (Ebay, Amazon, Facebook, X, Banking apps etc). These apps require a lot of permissions and have a lot of trackers. If we accessed those via bookmarks on a privacy focused mobile web browser like Brave or DuckDuckGo we would require fewer apps and we would have more control over what data was being shared with those companies. The only down side would be lack of notifications, but I think for many purposes this is a more secure way to use these services.

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  LedgerMart (@LedgerMart613) reported 23 minutes ago

  @ethereuminsti Its an honor to build on #ethereum and bringing so a huge use case to crypto with my p2p e commerce platform #ledgermart I’ve worked on this project for a year by myself long hrs and nights and it’s finally coming together LedgerMart = The future of commerce is on-chain. Buy. Sell. Auction.Everything. All on Ethereum. Tired of high fees, middlemen, and slow platforms? LedgerMart is the decentralized e-commerce revolution: • Physical & Digital Goods: Electronics, NFTs, art, services, sneakers, software — you name it. • Ethereum Blockchain: Secure, transparent P2P trades. • Payments: ETH + ALL ERC-20 tokens. • Instant Messaging: Chat directly with buyers/sellers. • Reputation System: User ratings, reviews & verified profiles. • Sales Tracker: Full history, analytics, and portfolio in your wallet. . Auction function now implanted run an auction on any product up to 48hrs • Only 2% Transaction Fee — the lowest in crypto commerce. True ownership. Zero bullshit. Maximum freedom. This isn’t another marketplace. This is your decentralized Amazon + eBay + WhatsApp built on-chain.

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  Alan (@dobbinshire) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PlayStation I’ve bought some well reviewed games for PS5 that turned out to be spectacularly ****. I had the benefit of flogging them on eBay to get most of my money back. This is a terrible move by Sony

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 26 minutes ago

  Your competitors reprice every hour. Most sellers don't. Built RepriceIQ to fix that. AI monitors competitors across Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Google Shopping and auto-adjusts your prices — with margin rules protecting your profitability. 10-second refresh. Daily profit reports.

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  oracleofseasons (@0racleofseasons) reported 30 minutes ago

  ive made like £800 selling on ebay, and i put a load of cash into my bank account, and i swear to god im still down

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  3of12 (@Threeof12) reported 30 minutes ago

  @VoluntaryMoron @DanFriedman81 @dr_r_j_harley Enterprise HDDs are very obtainable on ebay, and if you want a media server just use TrueNas and build a RAID 6 array

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  Brandon A. (@ThePeachNehi) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Nasdorachi This was a huge issue within the Fighting Game Community, with crossover games like Marvel vs Capcom. At one time, PS3s with MvC2 installed were going for $1000 on ebay, because it was the only way to play the game online.

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  Eurobaka (@eurobaka) reported 35 minutes ago

  @qwerty__sensei Do it! I had the same problem since I'm a bit taller than you with a slim build but I got a custom sized one from a Chinese ebay vendor some months ago. It fits like a glove and the quality is great. Just get your measurements and it should be fine.

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  Venturian Capital 🗽🇮🇪🇺🇸 (@SittingBear0921) reported 35 minutes ago

  @CoyoteKn0wsBest @ryancohen I really see no major issues with EBay or their business. I had a lot more respect for Cohen before all of this and the Bitcoin bullshit. True colors always show.

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  Jesse (@j23a45y) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Ob1JohnKenob1 @eBay I'm an honest buyer and have a bunch of ESE that tracking never updated and I received and left feedback. Also have a bunch with tracking never updated and I never received cards. In my case the post office is the issue 🤷🏽

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  Michael Livesley (@NowtofTown) reported 38 minutes ago

  @CeeChampion Lol, aye. I recall there being a problem with 'the post' when I bought the Cleese and Skinner books a few years ago. That took a few attempts. eBay can be hit n miss.

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  Budget Hands (@BudgetHands) reported 40 minutes ago

  @foxenflask Ship trading cards straight from @gamestop locations after having them authenticated on site. Would solve so many issues sellers are having with buyers scamming the current system. I don’t dare sell on eBay now as the risk is too great.

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  Erick (@Erickschultz11) reported 43 minutes ago

  I can’t wait for Amazon and eBay to go full AI. And I especially don’t want Amazon showing me a bunch of other stuff I did not search for. That is one of the biggest problems with online shopping now. You search for something specific, and the platform starts mixing in sponsored products, loosely related products, “customers also bought,” promoted brands, and random junk that only sort of matches the words you typed. That is not intelligence. That is advertising pressure disguised as search. AI should fix that. If I search for a specific part, tool, cable, filter, book, or replacement item, I want the system to understand the intent and narrow the results, not expand them into a shopping carnival. If I ask for a 14-inch shelf bracket, don’t show me 12-inch brackets, floating shelves, decorative hooks, or something that paid to be near the result. A real AI shopping assistant should be able to say: “This is the exact item you searched for.” “These are compatible alternatives.” “These are not compatible, even though the listing looks similar.” “This seller is risky.” “This one is overpriced.” “You bought something similar before.” That is where AI could actually improve shopping. Not by showing more products, but by showing fewer, better, more relevant products. The problem with Amazon and eBay is not lack of inventory. It is too much noise between the user and the thing they actually need. AI should become the filter that protects the buyer from the platform’s own clutter. Maybe Elon should start here on X - and use Grok to drive it... of course -... call it the X-Store.

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  Kaiser Ryu (@HellKaiserRyuGX) reported 48 minutes ago

  The funny thing about this is that considering PlayStation will continue to ship physical code in a box (a blatant move to skate by regulators from monopoly claims), this will probably result in the same issue. eBay sellers inflating prices of sealed delisted games.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 49 minutes ago

  Your competitors reprice constantly. You can't. So you either lose the sale or lose the margin. Built PriceLeap to fix that. AI agent monitors Amazon, Shopify, eBay and adjusts your prices in real time — within your margins, with full audit trails. No black box. No guesswork.

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  HoboJ (@HoboJ_) reported 49 minutes ago

  @CardsMidnights @CardPurchaser I started selling cards on eBay. Haven't had any major problems yet. eBay requires the buyer to send the funds to them before you ship. When you ship you can select the shipping service (with money protection) if it gets damaged, lost, etc during transit.

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  Brett Smith (@BrettSmith48545) reported 51 minutes ago

  AMC&GME: My opinion: If the bad actors had not manipulated the system so drastically…. We may have never known how corrupt the system is. With AMC&GME doing so well it magnifies the problem of manipulation….especially if GME gets EBay

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  Evan (88 IQ) (@GoodVersus) reported 52 minutes ago

  It's crazy that the box of my Pokemon cards my brother sold on eBay for $60 when I went to college could be a down payment on a house today.

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  Jamie (@japanesemovieco) reported 52 minutes ago

  @kickmurdersquad @eBay_UK I’ve reinstalled many times, but it doesn’t fix the problem. Seems to have started since all this eBay live stuff started. Don’t think the app can deal with it.

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  ✨Deano✨ (@warrior_ed59198) reported 52 minutes ago

  @StarwindZone @DHLGlobal @eBay I’ve had the same issue recently too with evri and Vinted and it’s been such a pain to deal with. Ordered an Alice in wonderland vhs over a week ago and it’s been missing from the delivery address. Had multiple convos with the seller and we’re trying to get to the bottom of it.

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  LEGENDARY HEROES A Game Of Death | WISHLIST NOW (@KahL_One) reported 55 minutes ago

  If all you're showing are PS2 games because that's where the hard stop is, you've completely proven the industry's point. This is why I say a lot of you are very fake with this. Most of you were supporting digital in the last 15 to 20 years at a strong clip which is why we are where we are now. You SAID that you did but all your choices were the same top 20 retro titles that we've seen time and time again everyone has traded back and forth across eBay. Showing a bunch of PS2 games when most of you didn't support PS3, PS4, PS5, x360, Xbox One, or Xbox series at a serious pace--- is what counts. I said this time and time again and everybody keeps posting up PS2 images as if we didn't know this already. PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube/Xbox OG aren't the problem. It's the last 20yrs, folks This is an empty flex. Show us How many games that you've purchased physically within the last 2 years that were current. The last 5 years current. How many were digital by comparison Yeah, exactly. That's what I thought. The sun will still come out tomorrow. You all will still download everything the same way you were yesterday. If you wanted to support physical gaming that seriously, you would have done it a long time ago this entire time.

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  Kaalion Rjest™ (@TheKaalionRjest) reported 55 minutes ago

  @eBay The issue isn't that the order didn't ship. The issue is the seller is telling me their out of the item a week later and telling me I have to cancel the shipment and aren't doing so.

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  Kenob1 (@Ob1JohnKenob1) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SWATZ911 @eBay I’m an optimist so I think it’s probably genuine USPS issues. But I’m also a data guy so the data supports increased scamming.

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  Hollow (@BuddOfCourse) reported 59 minutes ago

  @snacks_fruity2 Will Gamespot by ANY/ALL old games? I imagine you'd have trouble selling many of those games for ANY PRICE if you listed them on someplace like Ebay? I considered getting rid of all my old consoles/games/accessories a while ago, but all anyone wanted was the SNES stuff.