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 (64%)
• Sign in (22%)
• Errors (14%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Preston	Website Down	4 hours ago
Laon	Sign in	5 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	9 hours ago
London	Sign in	11 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	16 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	1 day ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  brandon (@trancetheartist) reported 8 minutes ago

  @MTGSecretLair ngl that queue was nasty today - first issue since ordering from you guys. waited in queue for 3 hours just for it to sell out immediately after sales started again. multiple listings on ebay for over retail. kinda sucks :/

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  Mike-E (@ATXCollectibles) reported 9 minutes ago

  @yanxchick A4: one of my 1/1 Colt McCoy Longhorn cards I communicated with the seller for about 6 years on eBay and YouTube until he was willing to come down to what I was comfortable paying. Originally asked $2k and I ended up paying $500.

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  Eric (@GhostRunnerCard) reported 11 minutes ago

  @CCCollectorTCG I ship via eBay to third-party shipping companies almost daily. I've never had any concerns or issues with them. All the orders work out fine.

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 12 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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  Bird Dog Gaming (@BirdDogGaming) reported 15 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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  GamerTex (@GamerTex) reported 18 minutes ago

  @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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  Ask About My Dining Room Tables replyguy/acc, PhD (@agamemnus_dev) reported 22 minutes ago

  @aupdegraff24 @CatNihon Same with eBay. I keep calling them about a listing that they suspended showing them that it should be back online. They said they will fix it within 2-3 business days and they never do.

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  Zack Morris (@Palladin0) reported 22 minutes ago

  @packaddictsnw Never had an issue w eBay standard shipping once. Most likely buyer being shady

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  Carolina24 (@c_collector24) reported 22 minutes ago

  @pasch_8759_eBay @CardPurchaser @tm1515152005 Had the same issue yesterday (TWICE) with the same Kirby Puckett card that I even talked to an eBay representative about and he suggested I just relist it? No idea what they’re doing with their new AI filters

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  maeve (@lizziedossss) reported 25 minutes ago

  @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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  Eric McCurry (@eric_mcCurry) reported 26 minutes ago

  @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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  rack$ (@mnstacks) reported 29 minutes ago

  He built an autonomous Grok Bot named Reaper, handed it his credit card debt and told it to pay off his credit card debt for him. He gave the bot its own computer in the cloud and access to his email. Then he basically said: “This debt is your problem now. Don’t ask me for money. Just report back every night.” What Reaper actually did • canceled old subscriptions he’d forgotten • talked the credit card company into a lower interest rate • moved most of the balance to a 0% card • got a couple of charges refunded • sold his unused PlayStation and monitors on eBay • put every extra dollar it found toward the debt I spoke to him and he said he plans to work on more upgrades and refine its function He is fully onboard and will join the community to tell us about his future plans Ca;

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  HowlingHemorrhoids (@DeadlessHick) reported 37 minutes ago

  A funny thing about ebay for me is when I get a wild hair up my *** on buying stuff, like a new HDD to replace a dead one in my server, I'll peruse the auctions with current bids ~50% below market value, and then place a max bid of ~80% market value. Often times I do this, I see that someone else has already placed a higher max bid than I'm willing to do. So I feel like a gremlin running around ebay casually helping sellers and causing the other bidders to lose a chance at a true deal. I got a $420 camera lens for $200 doing this method though.

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  Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) reported 38 minutes ago

  GameStop is about to post a near-record profit. Almost none of it came from selling video games. The company guided to $290 to $310 million in net income last quarter, up from $169 million a year ago. Roughly $238 million of that is a paper gain on its eBay stake, not its stores. Actual sales fell to about $790 million from $972 million, down 19%. A video-game retailer now earns more from a stock bet than from its business. Ryan Cohen even made a $56 billion run at buying eBay outright, and eBay called it neither credible nor attractive. The register is shrinking while the balance sheet plays hedge fund. The stock tells the real story. Shares slid from $22 to $18 over the past 3 months, and a near-record profit has not stopped the bleed. A trading gain does not repeat on a schedule. The store decline does. $GME

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  KEZ O))) (@kezwilliams13) reported 42 minutes ago

  @GlenYoungBRFC @YouTube Actually I've just checked it out and it's down to £52 on eBay.

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  ❤️𝖙𝖆𝖝𝖎 // 𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖞🖤 VTuber (@taximalsVT) reported 44 minutes ago

  one of these ace attorney pachislo showed up on ebay years back (pre covid) and i honestly almost bought it the only thing that stopped me is i would have no idea how to fix it if it broke

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  — Daniel (@_danreynolds_) reported 44 minutes ago

  Designed and sold my own bike parts on eBay First £1k online Absolutely zero clue what I was doing I just saw a space for a product, knew how to get stuff 3D printed, and built the product I wanted for myself - Ordered 3D printed parts for ~£7 - Final assembly + packaging ~£2 - Sold for £35 bosh Only shut it down bc a friend (competitor in the industry) asked me if I had insurance Spent a whole day phoning up insurance companies None of whom offered to cover me And bc the bike part was related to steering… I bottled it and shut down the biz (Didnt fancy my chances getting sued over an untested product if one of my buyers lost his teeth in a 1v1 with the floor) Boy oh boy that was a fun summer

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  Zamiel Cano (@ZamielJC) reported 49 minutes ago

  @PeakHobby @BosCardHunter I have had issues with eBay which is USPS. BGS10 Miss Fortune Showcase “Lost” Total bullshit

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  Stitch (@StitchKings) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ai_degen_hick @grok can you explain how much someone nets on an eBay card sale of $2,025 after fees for our slow friend here?

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  The Really Bad Golfer (@therlybadglfer) reported 53 minutes ago

  @eBay why do you allow terrible people like this on your platform? He replies to feedback with threats and stalking (when I ran a background check), brings in users family's (you have a 10 year old), deflects any blame or responsibility, and it just horrible. You should kick him off the platform.

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  Mike Palmer (シネフィル) 🎬 (@MikePalmerYT) reported 53 minutes ago

  Since July this year there are severe problems with orders from Japan and delivered from Japan Post in the European Union. I had three cases so far, and every parcel has been send back to Japan. A few days ago I ordered something very expensive of eBay.

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  ☆ (@LucilleFilm) reported 54 minutes ago

  @drivenbyfilms ppl are saying the screener was for an already released film but even then, this could still get him in trouble. there's a reason why ebay listings don't go up until months after release and awards szn.

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  Jake (@gauchojake) reported 55 minutes ago

  @__tinygrad__ I just went down this rabbit hole on eBay yesterday. It’s insane.

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  SUPERmeme 🦝 (@MEMEnalu808) reported 56 minutes ago

  no one could have expected this to happen when a 1/1 rare gold jimothy card sold on ebay for over 20k?? almost 19mil mc just 2 days ago to currently 7mil but if you truly believe in the **** you keep buying more as i did all the way down because the bottom is in on my $jimothy we will rise again ☝🏽

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  collectorfix (@collectorfix) reported 57 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser @CardPurchaser why have you all-of-a-sudden been focusing primarily on selling cards and how on eBay lately? Like micro breaking it down. Like obsessed with it.

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  RD's caRD's (@rdaex1) reported 58 minutes ago

  Explain the issues for us to see if you're trustworthy or not. It's a 10$ card man you're not giving the winner a Tesla. If you don't have the card in hand, just Buy it on eBay and just send it to him... If you won't do something this simple, please stop trying to infiltrate your way into this space.

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  Florida Sports Card Haven (@flasprtscardhvn) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Gbpoker0710 Thanks man.. I sure hope not. Hope just emptying the stomach and going home tomorrow. Shut my ebay down for 2 weeks just in case. 👊

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  Kiro (@KiroIkigai) reported 1 hour ago

  The 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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  Brent Wendland (@BrentWendland) reported 1 hour ago

  @packaddictsnw Yeah eBay needs to do something with the tracking on these. I’ve gotten way more “buyer didn’t receive item” and have to issue a refund.

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  Uma Kompton (@RIPUmaKompton) reported 1 hour ago

  @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