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
Manchester	Website Down	2 hours ago
Plomeur	Sign in	12 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Vintage Japanese Pokémon Cards (@VintagePokeCard) reported 8 minutes ago

  @PokeCardsDaily I keep a pretty close eye on eBay too, but I rarely find any real bargains. I guess it all comes down to timing.

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  SotMons (@sotmons13th) reported 8 minutes ago

  @mitWorte Get onto ebay and find a broken one for parts or a replacement door. Never know your luck

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  Space Junkyard (@PavelVanchugov) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Cheesehead715 @sairahul1 @grok So does my openclaw model agnostic agent using developed skill. Though I use 3td party service for API content push then fix little things via browser skill. The command is "sell on eBay" followed by photos and short qty and condition description.

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  TexasGal (@TexasGalReborn) reported 11 minutes ago

  @DSychev2 @MichaelsTailgat Well said!!! My Samsung dishwasher did what your washer did and I (fortunately) located and replaced the circuit board. But sometimes, parts are more expensive and hard to diagnose…or they no longer make the part. I look at eBay for that stuff and fix it if it’s not too hard. Better than waiting for an appliance guy to come tell me the bad news

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  Mystory Collector (@MyStoryCollect) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS eBay's PWE tracking has caused more problems than it solves. That they are having to implement after-the-fact protections (e.g., what happens when a refund is issued for a shipment that is actually later delivered) is a wrongly placed band-aid, and hammers home the point that their PWE tracking sucks. It's cool that they're offering a program that requires 1k orders for a seller to qualify, but the problem relies mostly on the buyer side of things ("my package is 'lost' [due to eBay's shoddy tracking system], I demand a refund [or you'll get negative feedback]")...as the seller issues a refund to preserve their own feedback rating. If eBay is truly going to handle refund requests (at what cost?!) then that mitigates things for the seller, but it's just another band-aid to "fix" a tracking system which only tracks sporadically, if at all.

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  ML (@Moxie25) reported 14 minutes ago

  @AnarchoDarling Same here. Had my ebay shop for years. Did very well before PayPal ca.e in. Shut down my auction last year. AI, and excessive fees are killing g side and small business.

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  Rugikk (@rugikkk) reported 16 minutes ago

  MIT teaches auction theory with 40 minutes of integrals, then throws out one bar-room example that quietly ruins every bid you'll ever make. 2 men, 2 wallets, 1 auction. Google built its ad business on the broken version of it, and the honest version has been sitting on a shelf since 1961. Start in the bar. 2 strangers, each with his own wallet in his hand, neither one opening it. They agree to auction the combined cash inside both. Highest bidder pays his bid and takes everything in the pot. You know your own $60. You know nothing about his. So every number you say out loud is built from half the facts and a guess about a stranger. Here's the trap, and it takes a second to land. He is only still bidding when he thinks the pot is fat. He drops out the moment he knows his own wallet is thin. So every round you win is a round the other guy was glad to hand you. That's the winner's curse. You don't win because you read the room better than anyone else. You win because you were the most wrong person at the table, and the auction sorted for exactly that. Oil firms bid on offshore drilling rights this way. Nobody knows what's under the seabed. The company that wins the block is the company that guessed highest, and the company that guessed highest is usually the company that guessed wrong. Government procurement runs on the same math. So do apartment bidding wars, and so does eBay at 11 PM when 3 people want the same lens. Now the money part. Google's search page has several ad slots, and the top one gets clicked far more than the 5th. Advertisers bid per click, not per view, so each one is really reporting a private number: what a single click is worth to them. For years the rule was simple. The 5th highest bid takes the 5th slot and pays the 6th bid. GSP. Generalized second price. It sounds clean and it isn't, because losing here doesn't mean going home with nothing. It means going home with a worse slot. So nobody states their real number. Everyone shades down, and then spends millions a year on software whose entire job is guessing what the other 40 bidders are about to do. An auction where the optimal move is to misreport what you know. The fix was published in 1961. Vickrey first, then Clarke, then Groves. VCG. You don't pay your bid. You pay the damage you caused: exactly what everyone else lost because you walked in the door. And the property that makes it beautiful is stronger than "usually works." Under VCG, telling the truth is your best move no matter how the other 40 bidders behave. Not on average. Always. It holds for any resource, not just ad slots. Vickrey solved it in 1961. The ad market spent 20 years bidding around him.

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  Ray Velez (@pascowebdesigns) reported 21 minutes ago

  @yeahfortommy I can potentially see anthro going down the ebay/yahoo side of history

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 25 minutes ago

  Elon Musk was fired from his own company while flying to his honeymoon. September 2000. He boarded a plane with his new wife, finally taking a break. While he was in the air, unreachable, the PayPal board held an emergency vote and removed him as CEO. Executives he had hired organized the coup, timed precisely for the hours he couldn't defend himself. He landed to discover he no longer ran his own company. He flew back immediately and tried to fight it. The board held firm. The coup stood. Here's where the story becomes about him and not them. He didn't sue. He didn't burn it down. He didn't spend years in litigation like most founders would. He stayed on the board, kept his shares, and kept advising the men who knifed him. When asked why, he said the mission mattered more than his ego, and his shares mattered more than revenge. Two years later PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Because he'd stayed instead of raging, his stake had grown into $180 million. The betrayal became the exact capital that funded SpaceX and Tesla. The men who fired him made him the richest founder in the building. Every rocket that launches today was paid for by a coup that was supposed to end him. Revenge is expensive. Equity is patient. He chose the one that compounds, and the people who wronged him ended up financing his empire.

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  Tatt_Joey (@Tatt_Joey) reported 26 minutes ago

  I don't know why, but every time I order from @eBay, the product never lasts. Bought 2 pairs of orange acrylic septum rings. Only received 1 pair, so I got a partial refund. After 45 days, the ring I was wearing has broken. Like, I don't mind if it's genuine wear and tear.

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  Bear (@Bearthenews) reported 32 minutes ago

  @GravityPimp The mercedes i have gets warped front rotors from the factory. Well known problem with factory Mercedes rotors of that style. Bought replacement ones on ebay or Amazon because I'll be damned if I spend thousands of dollars on parts I know already will fail in under 30k miles. No problems, smooth as butter.

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  Nikki Darling (@AnarchoDarling) reported 33 minutes ago

  For years I’ve been selling and buying on FB Marketplace. I’ll sell my kids lightly used clothes and use the money to buy the next size up. It was meager, but a good hustle while it lasted. I’ve saved our family so much money by doing this. Now the Meta algo is so bad that I’ll post 20 ads of dirt cheap bundles with pro photos and not a single view for weeks. I’ll have one day a month where my phone blows up with “Is this available?” messages and one sale. I shipped my first Marketplace order yesterday and now I’m waiting to find out if I’ll be scammed with a chargeback or refund request. So I decided to log into my 24 year old eBay account where I’ve sold about 200 random things over the years. Nope! They gave me a sales limit of $10 a month. I asked for a customer service human to call me back a few hours ago. Still no call. 10 years ago I did really well selling my handmade jewelry on Etsy until Chinese scammers starting replicating my designs. Now Etsy is overflowing with scammers and Temu junk. I rarely post my original designs online anymore for fear of them being reproduced. I’m convinced there’s an agenda to shut down little side hustles. I’m tired of spending so much time researching ways to trick the algorithm while AI slop gets millions of clicks.

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  ❌️att (@Matt57484157) reported 33 minutes ago

  @tstoics @RVA_Bobbles I have had several issues on ebay lately. Purchased items not be shipped. That sucks man.

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  Phelon (@Flipresell1) reported 34 minutes ago

  @YoJaffe @eBay @PSAcard guys stop ordering from ebay then lol 24-7 complaints about how they are and how they package , so WHY ARE WE SUPRISED AGAIN ? lord nobody is forcing you to buy **** but you guys always ******* crying omg bro stfu , their system is **** yet you keep buying into it, user error

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  ZZ11 (@Zim11R) reported 34 minutes ago

  @eBay @RobGronkowski Your app doesnt work right. Takes 10 seconds to load any page. Why refuse to fix it ?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 35 minutes ago

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  J (@jasan2917) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AMCTheatres @CEOAdam While you're cracking down on EBAY scalpers, could you also enforce a no water bottle/canister ban on all theaters? (We all know they bring them in and refill them at the Freestyle stations without paying) Why am I paying more for their theft?

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  Knicks Memes (@KnicksMemes) reported 40 minutes ago

  @CEOAdam Huge problem with that: What if somebody decides they want, say, seats G26 and G27 for a showing, but it's sold out. So they go create a fake ebay listing for those exact seats, so those seats get canceled and open up, even though the actual owner was NEVER trying to sell them?!

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 44 minutes ago

  Someone runs a full Linux server in his apartment with 8 Xeon cores, 16 GB of RAM, and gigabit fiber, and now this video shows he pays $18 in electricity for the same specs AWS charges $350 a month for. The exact configuration on the screen: Debian 13 (trixie), kernel 6.12, x86_64. Intel Xeon with AVX2, AVX-512, AMX, AES, and VT-x. 8 cores, 8 threads. 128 GB virtual disk on ext4, used 5.5 GB. 16 GB of RAM, 13 GB free. No GPU. Network tested at 977 Mbps down, 259 Mbps up. That is a machine that would cost $310/month on AWS as a c7i.2xlarge, plus $40/month for the bandwidth if he moves any real amount of data. Somewhere around $350 to $400 a month for the same setup, sitting in an Amazon data center. He built the same thing at home. The hardware cost is a used server on eBay for about $500, or a mini PC with a modern CPU for around $700. The internet was already paid because he was paying for it anyway. Electricity for a machine running 24 hours a day at that CPU class is roughly $15 to $20 per month depending on where you live. Payback on the hardware: less than 2 months at AWS-equivalent rates. What he runs on it: A KVM virtual machine that hosts a chat interface called MUSK. Probably a locally-hosted language model, probably something in the Qwen or Llama family that fits in 16 GB of RAM at reasonable quantization. Files, backups, personal *** server, and whatever else he does not want sitting in someone else's data center. The reason the pattern matters is that the case for the public cloud was never really "the servers are cheaper." The case was "someone else deals with the hardware, the power, the network, and the failover." That case is still true for a business at scale. It is not really true for a single person running a personal server for himself. I checked my own AWS bill from last year after watching the video. I was paying $126 a month for an EC2 instance that was doing personal projects, backups, and hosting one small side app. I moved it to a $600 mini PC that I now keep in the closet next to the router. Ten months in, the mini PC has paid for itself twice and I am not going back. The video is short. It shows the specs on the screen and shows the network test. It does not sell a course or a Discord. Someone built the setup. Someone else already did the math. I just had to stop paying the cloud rent.

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  Tik Tok (@Spamolator) reported 45 minutes ago

  @EggerDC Wrong. Those are not in a sealed box from the seller. Anyone could've tampered with that and what recourse would that person have? They bought of eBay AND Door Dash. That's illegal bud. You can't claim it's from Amazon, but really from the Krogers down the street. 🤡

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  ZeroTolerance (@Gloria_Bravo) reported 45 minutes ago

  They didn't!Held me for near3 hours in a bot chat and human agents that never responded other than keeping me bouncing from one agent to another without even checking the issue. I will go ahead and CANCEL my account and go back to @eBay !! @eBay has the most AMAZING service

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  big z (@zectrillionaire) reported 46 minutes ago

  Low-liquidity markets always interested me in a way that extremely liquid markets didn't. Wym I can push the price up or down in the short term, that's awesome This is one of the reasons that TCG markets always interested me. You're telling me if I buy this slab, and it's the cheapest one available, I can set the new price, higher? And be instantly up?(Atleast unrealized) There's actually a lot of opportunity to make money fast in lower liquidity markets, with less risk IMO, if you're lower-size (sub 100 million). It's also kind of safer too in a way, if price drops, I can just push it back up, and be back at break even or even higher. You just have to be patient. During Covid I did this experiment with WoW TCG sealed booster boxes, and unironically became one of the biggest whales in sealed WoW TCG. There's several products from that game, where on eBay, I literally am the market, if someone wants it they gotta pay what I say. The loot cards are still redeemable btw. It's fun, and teaches you a lot about how markets work.

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  Rose 🌹| (@opereitta_) reported 46 minutes ago

  I have gone to the effort of stating I am willing to take payment through Paypal or Zelle if paying in cash is the problem, nothing. It's not like I have high priced items, most being half of ebay, all under $30 for the most part. Cleaning my bedroom out is just hard.

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  KAN (@kancewe) (@kancewe) reported 48 minutes ago

  One particular card I keep in my eBay search constantly has the wrong card #. With as many as I have seen, it has to be intentional deception, right? CPA vs CRA. As advanced as eBay is becoming, it should be able to catch the “error”, right? 🤔 #GottaDoYourDD @CardPurchaser

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  AiMind (@AIMind_Ai) reported 51 minutes ago

  6 dead office PCs at $50 each run a Kubernetes cluster that AWS would bill $10,000 a year for. Most home labs die before they boot. Someone specs a Xeon. Prices 128GB of RAM. Opens 40 tabs. Buys nothing. The build that actually runs is uglier than that. HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini. Corporate castoffs, dumped on eBay by the pallet every time an office refreshes. $50 a unit, sold stripped. 16GB of RAM and a 256GB NVMe put each one back to work. 35W chips. All 6 idle under 100W. k3s on top, not kubeadm. 1 binary, 512MB of RAM. node1 starts the cluster. node2 and node3 join as servers. That is 3 etcd members, so losing one kills nothing. 6 nodes. 17 namespaces. 173 pods. CPU idling at 4.6%. The same cluster on EKS: 6 t3.xlarge at $121 a month, plus $73 for the control plane. $9,636 a year. $300 once. And it did not start there. The first server was a retired gaming PC headed for a closet. The right first machine is the one already collecting dust. Stop planning the rack. Start having fun.

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  Will R (@Amexred) reported 52 minutes ago

  @VHSDVDBLURAY4K Oh you are solving a nonexistent problem . They’ll just sell in another way in the future that doesn’t reveal the seat up front / just indicate the row or sell locally whichever . Getting a tiny % of scalping bounced off eBay isn’t doing anything .

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  Snake (@ApePlissken01) reported 52 minutes ago

  @CEOAdam Thats Rediculous you *****🤦 trying to shut down the little guy yet again. Only thing you can do is stop scalping from right in front of your theaters. If I buy something and then decide to sell it on ebay its legal. I think you're going to get Sued again.wasting retail cash

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  Fede (@xXFedXx) reported 52 minutes ago

  @FFVIINovels Ah the pixel models. Why do I feel like they went on sale once again down few years ago directly from the SE online store? I bet they can still be found online from individual resells like eBay and such.

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  Ryan (@sonofguinness) reported 56 minutes ago

  @darrenrovell Idk why eBay lets a buyer with no feedback bid on high priced items. You know you aren't getting payment and will have to relist it. The hype dies down or something happens and now you're out a ton of $ because eBay refuses to have any requirements for buyers.

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  kaz ♿︎🌻 | ot6 (@loserkaz) reported 58 minutes ago

  @thelastdryad yea <///3 i have some merch from ebay shipping from japan rn so i gotta wait until i can buy more lmao but i want everything i see which is a problem lmao