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 (24%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Regenstauf	Errors	10 minutes ago
Manchester	Website Down	4 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	9 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	20 hours ago
Wuppertal	Sign in	23 hours ago
Manchester	Errors	1 day ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  🌿 Neo the Underking 🌿🍥🏴 (Anime Archival Arc) (@VirtualAxiom) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Yoshegame >whining Don't be that guy. Just don't. It's not "whining", and you're being bad-faith by suggesting it is. If they're not going to give people an off-ramp and keep the bridge open without having to connect online, then they have no reason not to keep the service going when a full account with 3,000 Pokemon is barely 1 megabyte and 1 million full accounts is still not 100% of 1 terabyte, because a Pokemon is only about 300 bytes. They have no excuse when I can use a single $30 SSD and some flash drives in RAID for backups on an e-waste PC I got on eBay to store MILLIONS of Pokemon for pennies of electricity while they have BILLIONS for an operating budget. The rounding error to keep the service up won't hurt them any when a trip to Walmart is all it takes.

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  d ★★ (@awfcvalks) reported 5 minutes ago

  Was trynna get them on eBay but I’m too slow and missed all the ones that went up for decent price. And then mfs started listing them for $60 smh

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  david payne (@garbage2010) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TrevRetro eBay and Amazon are terrible for that now. Search for Google pixel 10 phone case. Sponsored result. "iPhone 12 case"

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  Margo (@MargoinWNC) reported 10 minutes ago

  People really upset when I followed through with exactly what I said I would after people were maligned about telling the truth. You bunch of weak minded people. You wanted a pity party and when you got the truth you want to blame me for doing exactly what I said I would do- Get the death certificate and show you since you want believe the bullshit. I’ve never backed down from a debate or a confrontation. Never. Ask Carissa, the jealous stalker, who went through my eBay account to find my fascinating affinity for American pottery. Weak people sit and whine. String people get the proof and prove you’re weak.

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  ryan (@mapandfold) reported 10 minutes ago

  I also didn't want to throw money at the problem, so I bought used RAM sticks off ebay. will explain later

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 11 minutes ago

  🧵 the forgotten market the standard pushback on any marketplace founder (few are left) going after horizontal C2C: „it‘s too hard. We looked at this space (and lost a lot of money)“  the core mechanic is trivial:  1. build a a place to buy and sell 2. onboard regular sellers 3. onboard regular buyers 4. match them 5. monetize the network asset  It‘s 2026 and every country has a dominant horizontal marketplace that dates back at least 10-30 yrs Founding dates Desktop era Craigslist: 1995 eBay: 1995 Blocket 🇸🇪: 1996 Ricardo 🇨🇭: 1999 Mercado Libre 🇦🇷: 1999 Gumtree 🇬🇧: 2000 Leboncoin 🇫🇷: 2006 … Mobile era Vinted 🇪🇺: 2008 OfferUp : 2011 Depop: 2011 Carousel 🇸🇬: 2012 Wallapop 🇪🇸: 2013 Facebook Marketplaces: 2016 … Void 2026 Combined valuation of all of them ~$250B I‘ve been trying to find NEW startups over the past year that go after this market and asked investors I talked to if they can point at any. The only one I found that was geared at regular sellers horizontally was tradepost raising $4M last year.  Their last iOS update was 6 months ago and hope that just means a stealth v2 or smth is coming, because it feels strangely lonely.  Like the one lunatic from Switzerland with a tiny team of 2 1/2 and the monetary firepower of a spoon trying to win a ~$250B industry.  $250B only includes what‘s visible: 80% are throwing (un)used goods away or let them depreciate. So why are we/startups are not trying to solve this? It‘s not like it‘s a niche problem or the prize of winning is too small. We now have global solutions for almost anything and our horizontal C2C trade infrastructure is running on Pearl or Java (mostly isolated by country). The UI and UX are like asking kids today to play Command and Conquer and Halo (no, they are not as good as you remember, don‘t try playing them and destroy your awesome memory) there are two camps: a) everyone failed, so it doesn’t work b) verticals win and a newer third one c) agents will replace them I‘m not going to address a) for obvious reasons  b) logical vertical fallacy that consumer convenience revolves around having ten apps to sell or buy something (un)used. c) I see some agent probability for (non-discretionary) B2C and B2B, but C2C would require the 80% offline supply to be online in the first place (which agent is taking the picture?). Automation for regular sellers is still the right move (there is also some element of selling hobby though) But C2C buyers are more like treasure hunters. They love exploring, going to the flea market. It‘s a hobby/passion. Finding that vintage lamp from the 60s for a bargain.  My daughter went happily shopping today and it wasn’t about buying smth specific, it was about the journey much more than the destination. (I personally love discovering and hate shopping btw) We‘re not going to send agents playing beach volleyball and proudly tell our friends we automated leisure.  It‘s why so many of us spend so much time on x, when we could also just ask Claude: „give me cool things to read“.  C2C has this social/culture layer that‘s really hard to capture without a timeline/feed and C2C UI tooling (swipes, taps, maps, connections, etc).  It‘s not as transactional as „how many vitamins does chocolate have?“ We addressed „big market“ and „horizontal UI/UX app layer“  I guess the most important question remains:  Why did nobody solve this yet and users are now even going to private chat groups? The people who tried were beyond smart, well funded (we‘re talking billions that were burnt). Some managed to put a (big) dent in e.g. eBay like Vinted for fashion, but we‘re still ridiculously far away from a Spotify like dominance over the global horizontal C2C app layer. Many failed to win the grand prize. Cold-start funding would be the easy answer (there are many people on earth). This is missing a much bigger issue: we forgot how building C2C works.

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  Saul (@SaulSellsStuff) reported 13 minutes ago

  @theoliverxp Hey! They do, we did launch eBay module. It is down for an update but will be back soon. In the meantime though I’ve posted over $1000 in profit from amazon to eBay right here on X in the last 30 days by using the amazon to amazon module. If a deal is good enough for Amazon but I’m gated it’s usually worth a look on eBay.

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  tree ౨ৎ (@dearlytree) reported 14 minutes ago

  my fave author has a special edition shop exclusive version of her new book so I went to the shop so many times and it was never in stock (too popular me thinks). but mr tree tracked it down on ebay & surprised me with it yesterday 😭 this is love

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  Liesa 🍊🇺🇸 (@liesagonzalez74) reported 17 minutes ago

  @gregcello We had this and the gold castle. I got rid of both and the pirate ship when my kids got older. There was a huge protest and I had to hunt both down on ebay. Now my grandkids play with them when they come over.

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  Shoebox_Stadium (@ShoeboxStadium) reported 18 minutes ago

  Was trying to put some cards up for sale on eBay today, but the option to set flat price shipping was gone. Anyone else have this issue?

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  ScoGaun (@ScoGaun316) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TheUltimator5 Do you have specific settings for your net buy volume Indicator? Ebay net buy volume shows down for me

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  MostlyVV (@MostlyVV) reported 24 minutes ago

  @lja_xx @DodgeDJohnson Happens to many people. It is a common scam on ebay going back since the start. People buy a broken camera for example, buy a new working one, then return the broken one in its place and ebay and paypal side with the buyer. It is recommend to take photos of the product.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 24 minutes ago

  Solo e-commerce founders juggle Gorgias, Prisync and Linnworks — and still wake up to a spreadsheet. Built Tindal to fix that. A 24/7 AI co-pilot for Shopify, Amazon and eBay that watches inventory, orders, buyer messages and repricing, then sends one daily digest. Live soon.

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 25 minutes ago

  In 2003 Elon Musk gave his first talk as a newly rich man, 4 years after selling Zip2 for $300 million and 1 year after eBay paid $1.5 billion for PayPal, and he spent it explaining how he would fly a rocket for $6 million. 8 years earlier he had negative money. He deferred a physics PhD at Stanford in 1995 and told his professor he'd give it a couple of quarters. The professor said he wouldn't be coming back. That was the last conversation they had. He couldn't afford an office and a place to live at the same time, so he rented the office, slept on a futon, and showered at the YMCA on Page Mill and El Camino. A tiny ISP sat one floor below. He drilled a hole through the floor, ran a null modem cable down to it, and bought internet for 100 bucks a month. 6 people total. 3 of them salespeople hired on contingency off a newspaper ad. Half the calls started with "what's the internet." The burn rate was so small the revenue covered it, so when he walked into a VC meeting he could say the company was cash flow positive. Compaq paid in cash in early 1999. At xcom the hard part was banking, brokerage and insurance stacked into one page. Months of work. Demos got polite nods. The side feature took about a day: type an email address, send money. That one got the "wow." So he pointed the whole company at the thing that took a day. 1 million customers by the end of year 2, no sales force, no VP of marketing, $0 on advertising. Then he asked why nothing had moved since Apollo. 3 trips to Moscow to price a refurbished ICBM. The shuttle burning $4 billion a year across 4 flights, close to $1 billion each, while Soyuz flew for $60 million. His answer had no silver bullet in it. 30 people. Ethernet instead of copper bundles as thick as your arm. Hundreds of small cuts that land at $6 million a flight against $25 million from the nearest rival. Same hole in the floor. Bigger building.

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  free Sneed (@PunishedKingM) reported 25 minutes ago

  @skye6688846993 @Ungovernab1e Wireless drones can be brought down with a jammer you can get on ebay and the wired ones you can take down with bolt cutters you get at home depot.

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Krishell1985 You can still pick them up on eBay for a couple hundred. Fix the mistake! :-)

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  Cardboard Connection (@sportscards) reported 26 minutes ago

  So my company is made over 100 million in sales In the past decade for eBay Using the eBay Partnership Network their affiliate marketing program. I would think that nine figures would buy at least a little feedback maybe a phone call notes an explanation maybe even some perks considering the magnitude... Instead my commissions were cut by over 2/3, everything is limited I was never entered into any programs and literally am losing my company without an explanation and Trying to save my business, the most recent compliance request came in about the entirety of my Facebook and X accounts. Keep in mind both of these accounts have roughly 70,000 followers between the two and I've never had an issue in a decade with these accounts except for the occasional request for an appliance update and I was trying links for one of their new programs. There's no way to call anyone there there's no way to get an explanation and now I've had to let go all of my employees just to keep the company alive until yesterday... Went from 4M organic users visiting my site, to this. Coincidently, 2 days after I asked for an explanation why my commission were basically eradicated. Play something along these two social media platforms that I haven't touched in a month since the last compliance Only reason enough to shut me down after 16 years with ebay. IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS??? They told me i was being used as a test pilot which is why my rates were below the GLOBAL STANDARD RATE CARD. And to wrap it up stay informed me of my suspension after over a decade of business by writing an email to me with the wrong name. I don't know who Ryan is... HELP

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  🔴⚪ Moriarty (@ManlikeAyock) reported 31 minutes ago

  Abi na my ebay app get issues?

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  Fangs🖤| Pro Memoria (@FangsGhostV) reported 33 minutes ago

  @CopiaFanart That’s utterly horrible! Ebay is (at least in my experience years ago), really good with refunds for scams. Hopefully they take down the ad/scammer account as well.

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  John Deer (@bbby4lyfe) reported 34 minutes ago

  @teddy__com @ryancohen Ill keep happily buying nothing has changed except the price, which is controlled by ken griffin. If u bought at $22 why wouldnt you buy here? What has fundamentally changed? The ebay deal is looking better everyday the price goes down lol.

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  Michael (マイケル) (@RyuuseiKnight) reported 37 minutes ago

  And that's why I closed my eBay store. My top-rated global and USA seller title became "below standard" after 5 "out of stock" issues. ( ; _ ; ) Now, I am moving to Temu and Amazon Marketplace.

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  angie (@euphoria_atr) reported 38 minutes ago

  @4Miathebrave If you are going to purchase physical copies, I suggest the nitro store! You can find the copy you want to purchase, give the link, title and price to a proxy or middleman who will purchase it, store it until you pay for shipping and then send it to you! Or, you could obtain a Japanese address for free with a packaging forwarding service, make a nitro store account yourself, pay yourself, and then have it forward to you with no middleman required! There is also j-list, based in America, that sells the offical english versions of the games! It’s all in eng, is easy to navigate, and is domestic for you, so no proxy required. eBay is full of resellers and scalpers who buy up all the stock, and resell it for higher prices. If you have issues with limited stock always being sold out, please do not support or buy from the scalpers and resellers on eBay, as that will just make the issue worse. Good luck!

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  keeg (@QuakeCool) reported 41 minutes ago

  @xyzwontwakeup would have gotten more if he learned hwo to fix all those and sold them on ebay ( for actual money ).

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  GrimGlass (@GrimGlassCo) reported 46 minutes ago

  @AshtonEck8 Problem is its always hard to tell a value just using previous sales. And depending how patient you are, you will find a buyer. For example, this same card sold for $180 just 2 months ago on ebay. BUT a gold version in PSA 10, sold for $80...so both of yall have a good case. haha

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 49 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  STL Cards and More (@HereStl) reported 49 minutes ago

  @CardsMax What’s the eBay user name. Individual needs to be identified to help others not deal with similar issues. Sellers of this nature hurt the rest of us by pushing potential buyers off the platform.

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  A Floyd (@Mrshoujo) reported 52 minutes ago

  @gamestop Broken stuff which will end up on eBay "for parts" and then all the retro gaming channels on YouTube will buy it up and make videos repairing it all.

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  Sonny Bobiche (@SonnyBobiche) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Gentleman_Ways How it looks now. Funny thing about those Wedgewood vases. I ordered one from a British antiques dealer on Ebay but when it arrived it had a broken chip at the top. I demanded my money back and they said they would send me another instead. So now I have two and no one can see the broken back. I lucked out.

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  Moons Card Shop (@moonscardshop) reported 57 minutes ago

  @craig_vent94132 @Pittsburgh1Pete That is usually where it shows up first. Card money is the most discretionary money there is, so the hobby feels a squeeze months before anyone writes an article about it. Slow eBay is a leading indicator, not a Pokemon problem.

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  Imsosmart (@ImSoSmart1985) reported 58 minutes ago

  @WilliamT268238 @TeddyRJ741 What news? If it came that it bought eBay, price world go down. If it came that the deal is 100% off, the price would go down. The only thing that would raise the price is if GameStop fired Ryan Cohen, and made a statement saying they would never dilute the shareholders again.