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 (23%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	9 hours ago
Tipton	Sign in	9 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	15 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	20 hours ago
Hayward	Website Down	1 day ago
Manchester	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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  Deadball (@DeadBall_Sports) reported 1 minute ago

  Is anyone else @eBay search broken?

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  josh (@NIPTXCK) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TYRISPRINT iphone 5c if you’re into the colors, 5s if you want something slightly** faster, better camera, and touch id. i bought a 6s on ebay and didn’t have any problems, but it’s important you check that the seller has an overall good rating. you should be fine.

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  Amal (@lamamals) reported 8 minutes ago

  The masses were hurling rocks at their leaders when one of the protesters realized he could make a living off them instead. He gathered every stone he could find and went home to list them on eBay as “ROCKS OF WAR.” The listing was taken down at the leaders’ command, and he found himself back on the battlefield, with the same worthless rocks. 'Just a Rock', available as part of the Match Boxes collection. Reserve: 0.026e

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  🩷 Minerva Jayne 🩷 (@minervajayne) reported 10 minutes ago

  @eBay how are you going to fix this? An AI scan isn’t going to cut it.

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  Jonathan Kriebel/KrispyKris (@krispykriskring) reported 10 minutes ago

  A Continental O-200 aircraft engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, four-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 200 pounds and making 100 HP. It costs $25,000 to $40,000 new. A Lycoming O-235 aircraft engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, four-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 244 pounds and making 115 HP. It costs $30,000 to $45,000 new. A Corvair 164 automobile engine is an air-cooled, horizontally opposed, six-cylinder, aluminum-case engine weighing approximately 300 pounds and making 110 HP. It costs $500 to $2,000 from a junkyard. Read those specifications again. The car engine matches the aircraft engines in every category that matters cooling method, cylinder arrangement, case material, weight class, and power output at one-twentieth the price. The Corvair didn't become a popular aircraft engine because hot rodders discovered it. It became a popular aircraft engine because it already was one. GM just didn't know it. The overlap isn't a coincidence; it's convergent design. Aircraft engine designers and the Corvair's designer, Al Kolbe, solved the same problem independently and arrived at the same answers. An aircraft engine must be air-cooled because water-cooled systems add a radiator, coolant, hoses, a water pump, and a thermostat weight and failure modes that are unacceptable when the engine is the only thing between you and a crash landing. The Corvair is air-cooled because it's a rear-engine car where routing coolant lines from the back of the car to a front-mounted radiator was more complex than designing an axial cooling fan. An aircraft engine must be horizontally opposed because the flat configuration produces the smallest frontal area behind a propeller reducing aerodynamic drag and because the inherent balance of a flat-six or flat-four produces less vibration than any inline or V-configuration at the same cylinder count. The Corvair is horizontally opposed because a flat engine sits low in a rear-engine car, keeping the center of gravity below the axle line. An aircraft engine uses an aluminum case because weight reduction is critical when every pound reduces payload, range, and climb rate. The Corvair uses an aluminum crankcase because GM wanted the lightest possible engine for the rear overhang of a compact car. Same answers. Different questions. The Corvair arrived at aircraft-engine specifications by solving automobile problems and the solutions happened to be identical. The one specification where the Corvair diverges from a certified aircraft engine is the one that enhances it for homebuilders: parts availability. A Continental O-200 cylinder costs $800 to $1,200. A Lycoming piston costs $200 to $400. A magneto overhaul costs $500 to $800. Every certified aircraft engine part carries a premium because the FAA's Parts Manufacturer Approval process adds years of testing and documentation to every component testing that ensures airworthiness but inflates prices beyond what most private builders can afford. The Corvair's parts come from NAPA, AutoZone, and eBay. Pistons: $30 each. Rings: $40 per set. Bearings: $25 per set. Gaskets: $60 for a complete set. The Corvair's parts are cheap because GM made 1.7 million Corvairs and the aftermarket has been supplying replacement parts for sixty years. A Corvair conversion flies on the same physics as a Lycoming the same thermodynamics, the same combustion cycle, the same propeller-driven thrust using parts that cost five percent as much. The Experimental-Amateur Built category that the FAA created in 1947 allows homebuilders to fly uncertified engines in aircraft they build themselves. Without that regulatory category, the Corvair would have stayed in junkyards forever. The FAA's rule created the pathway. The Corvair's accidental aircraft-engine specifications made it the cheapest engine to walk that pathway. William Wynne whose FlyCorvair program has been converting Corvairs for aviation since 1989 estimates that Corvair-powered aircraft have accumulated over 500,000 flight hours worldwide. Half a million hours. From an engine that was designed for grocery runs in a car Ralph Nader declared unsafe at any speed. The Corvair has now spent more hours in the air than many certified aircraft engine models that cost twenty times as much. Every hour is a testament to what happens when an automobile manufacturer accidentally designs an aircraft engine and a community of builders figures it out three decades later. The Corvair was the wrong engine for the car it was born in. It found the right application in the sky it was never designed for. Some engines are born into the wrong vehicle. The Corvair proves that the engine can outlive the mistake if someone finds the correct one.

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  Todd Dailey (@twid) reported 14 minutes ago

  @jessfraz Current mac minis support ssh unlock before boot, and also do automatic power on after power restore, they are a great little box. you can just agentically manage them. Your data and logins stay on that box, which is nice. macOS is a UNIX and has lots and lots of command line tools to manage it. @steipete himself has made tools like Peekaboo, imsg, and discrawl which are useful on a Mac. Overall it's a super solid OpenClaw or Hermes Agent home server. I also run SecuritySpy (NVR) and HomeBridge on mine, so it basically runs the house. And, if you connect your agent to telegram you have a chatbot that knows you that you can talk to and it gets an answer from your home fast internet versus whatever crappy mobile connection you have. The issue right now of course is that you can't get one, and you haven't been able to get one for months. Next best option is a refurb MacBook Neo for $599, or an M1 Mac Mini 16GB looks to be about $400 on ebay and would work well.

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  TheEagle (@_PatrioticEagle) reported 15 minutes ago

  This is ridiculous. @eBay you need to stop using this gofo express garbage. They dump packages outside, their delivery people take pics and then steal the package (they dump packages outside, take a pic to say it's delivered, and then steal the package). We can do nothing. These are the worst scum imaginable. Their entire operation need to be shut down. They don't even hire people that speak English. @GOFOSupport

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  ViewerAnon (@ViewerAnon) reported 16 minutes ago

  @shabazzthe_ Looks like they're coming down a bit with MGS4 being freed from the grips of the PS3. I've seen copies with slipcover going for like $60 on eBay. Give it another couple months and I think that'll come down even more.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 20 minutes ago

  Lesson 8: He showed them the private labeling process how a $3.80 product becomes a "brand" in 2 weeks. He told them the process most Amazon sellers use and the process any consumer can use to launch their own product line. Step 1: find the product on Alibaba. Search by category. Compare factories. Request samples from 3 suppliers. Choose the factory with the best quality-to-price ratio and the most responsive communication. Step 2: customize the product. Most factories offer customization at the same or slightly higher unit price logo printing, color selection, material upgrades, packaging design. The buyer provides the logo file, selects the color, approves the packaging mockup, and the factory produces the branded product. The "brand" is born the moment the logo appears on the product. Step 3: order the branded units. The factory produces the order typically in 15–30 days for quantities under 1,000 units. The products ship via sea freight (cheapest, 25–40 days) or air freight (faster, 5–10 days, more expensive). Step 4: list on the selling platform. Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, or the seller's own website. Professional photos (often provided by the factory or shot at home with a lightbox). Keyword-optimized listing. Competitive pricing typically 4–8x the factory cost, depending on the market positioning. He told them the entire process from finding the factory to listing the first product takes 2–4 weeks and costs $300–$1,500 depending on the product category, the order quantity, and the shipping method. The business that most people assume requires $10,000–$50,000 in startup capital requires a laptop, an Alibaba account, and a willingness to message factories in broken English at 3 AM.

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  Matt H. (@MrTeslAZ) reported 22 minutes ago

  @IowaTesla Wow! Now I’m wondering how long mine will last. In Phoenix summers, my garage goes over 105 regularly, (drops to like 90 at night). My only potential saving grace is I charge super low at like 5-8a typically. Hope you get your issue resolved, and if not keep that beautiful red glass to use on your next charger. I recently found a blue one on eBay for an absurdly high price. I wish the still sold them in the shop. Good Luck Jim!

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  ♀️President Hinozall🍀🪽 (@FlyHinozall) reported 27 minutes ago

  Trying so hard making some sort of extra income but failing so badly, never got a call back from hot topic, ebay sales are completely dead now even despite marking all my stuff down, doordash again, horrible, I hope I can at least try modeling business

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  Jesse BallCards (@JesseBallCards) reported 34 minutes ago

  @boogiex632 @eBay @CardPurchaser And absolutely not. See this is what happens when you assume. Guy low balled over $100 on a Caleb slab. It was so ridiculous I thought he was a seller trying to offload inventory and I accepted. I immediately realized the error and refunded.

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  David Carbutt (@DavidCarbutt_) reported 34 minutes ago

  Before YouTube I tried everything to make some extra money. Dropshipping. DJing nightclubs. Running events. Selling stickers. Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage. And every one of them had the same problems. You need big money up front, or there's not much room to grow, or the margins are so thin it's barely worth the effort. Usually all three at once. But YouTube is different. It costs almost nothing to start. You can put as many hours into it as you want, whenever it suits you. And you can build it around a full-time job. Which is exactly what I did. The other things I tried all hit a ceiling eventually. But this one still hasn't. I've scaled channels to 100 million plus views, and taken clients to $100,000 months. And my own channel has had months of over $10,000, while being a side gig. So if you want to give it a go, I've put what I know into an 8-week course on how to grow and monetise a YouTube channel. Follow and comment "YouTube" below for more info.

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  BTI (@garbmad) reported 37 minutes ago

  Why does EBay govern what is art? Their AI will write a description. I’m trying to list a rare large hand pulled screen-print from the 60’s that clearly has Standard Oil station & VW bus in the artiest photo & that appears to be the problem. Ebay wants it to be listed as an automotive part. I just noticed it. 11 months listed & ONE view. Ebay is awful with art collectors. Who’s better for high end pieces where you don’t loose full control ( ie a Heritage where you have to ship to them ) @eBay @ValueAddedRS

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  ed from da bronx (@BronxCardsFan) reported 38 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser anyone having search issues on eBay? Every search I’m doing is coming back as zero items found

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  Jms 🇬🇧🚜 (@rijedaim) reported 38 minutes ago

  Why is it impossible to actually TALK to someone if you're having problems with payments as a seller? AI is no help at all. Going round in circles Poor customer service @eBay

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  SimpleJack (@SimpleJack) reported 39 minutes ago

  10/ The Skeptic Deserves a Chair at the Table There is a completely ordinary explanation for nearly every piece of this story. Power Packs may simply be a successful commercial partnership. The eBay stake may remain a large financial investment. The converts may be sensible financing, the warrants may expire with limited economic effect, and tokenized GME products may remain too small to influence the underlying market in any measurable way. That competing explanation does not break the framework because the framework does not require common intent. It requires interaction only when the economic flows become large enough to interact. If the tokenized reserve stays tiny, its GME specific importance should be marked down. If accessible borrow expands during supposed constraint periods, the scarcity model should weaken. If collectibles fail to produce attractive attributable economics, the operating side loses its claim on the valuation story. The same discipline applies to capital allocation. If the note exchange creates dilution without sufficient balance sheet benefit, if the eBay stake earns an unattractive return, if warrants add shares without compensating treasury value, or if management repeatedly uses equity when repurchases would create superior per share value, the activist conclusion changes. Optionality earns no exemption from arithmetic. The Filings That Can Prove Me Wrong The coming filings offer unusually clean tests. The completed note exchange should reveal the actual share issuance and remove much of the uncertainty around the confidential floor mechanics. Future quarterly reports can show whether collectibles growth produces durable revenue and margin, how liquidity changed after the eBay settlement, and whether warrant exercise becomes economically meaningful as expiration approaches. Sources: GameStop Form 8 K and Exhibit 99.1, August 3, 2026, SEC accession 000132638026000042; GameStop Form 10 Q, quarter ended May 2, 2026, SEC accession 000132638026000025; GameStop warrant prospectus and related filings, October 2025, SEC accession 000132638025000091 Ownership filings can also clarify how large noteholders reposition after the exchange. Market structure data can test whether GME1 open interest, borrow conditions, settlement behavior, and tokenized reserve inventory actually move with periods of equity constraint. If those variables remain statistically dull, the market structure branch should stay interesting as architecture and small as explanation. The tokenization branch has perhaps the cleanest falsifier of all. If third party tokenized GME products remain tiny, reserve balances remain stable, and lending data show no meaningful interaction with the underlying stock, the branch becomes economically immaterial to GME. If the products scale and reserve, lending, creation, redemption, and collateral data become observable, they may provide a rare window into share reuse that traditional public datasets usually hide.

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  dedde (@deddescrive) reported 39 minutes ago

  When you find yourself doomscrolling eBay at midnight you know there’s a void to fill. Will a signed issue from Chip Zdarsky or Tom King do the trick? Let’s find out.

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  Argona (@Argona0x) reported 40 minutes ago

  i have $8,400 of credit card debt so i created a grok bot and told it "this is your problem now" day 6: the debt is $7,912 and i haven't done anything except watch i named the bot Reaper. it has its own computer in the cloud, access to my email, and one instruction: "report progress daily. don't ask me for money" honestly i didn't expect much. i just wanted to stop being the only one who knew the number first night it read 14 months of statements. then it went to work: → found $67/month in subscriptions i forgot existed. killed them the same hour → emailed the card company's retention team. two escalations later my APR dropped from 26.99% to 19.4% → found a 0% balance transfer, 12 months, $89 fee. did the math, moved $6,100 → disputed two charges from 2025. won one: $118 back → listed my playstation and two monitors on ebay. i found out from the confirmation email → every dollar it frees goes straight to principal, automatically every night at 9pm, telegram: "debt: $7,912. freed today: $31. nothing needed from you" the playstation thing annoyed me for exactly one minute. then i checked when i last used it. november the bot costs $200 a month. it freed $488 in week one projected zero: march 11. i've stopped opening my banking app. the bot opens it for me should i give it my student loans next?

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  3 treats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@_3treats) reported 40 minutes ago

  UGH after selling stuff on @eBay for a couple of years, I had a guy open a claim that he never received an $80 package. This is after he asked me twice to come down in price, I refused and he bought it anyway. Now he’s trying to screw me. I am NOT OK with this. 😡

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  woke warrior 🇵🇸 (@miuwuiich) reported 43 minutes ago

  @GShark54 because everyone is getting them and selling them for hundreds of dollars on ebay and they had to shut that **** down

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  Karlow (@karlowalpha) reported 44 minutes ago

  You are handed an envelope and told to write down the most you would pay for a broadcasting license. Highest number wins. But the winner does not pay their own number. They pay the second-highest one. Name your price. Most people shade down. They write less than they would really pay, because that is what you do in an auction. You protect yourself from overpaying. That instinct is provably wrong here. Under these rules your bid never sets your price. It only decides whether you win. Writing anything below your true maximum can only lose you a deal you wanted. Honesty is not a virtue in this auction. It is the dominant strategy. An economist proved that in 1961. His name was William Vickrey. New Zealand actually ran it. In 1990 the government sold radio spectrum this way with no reserve prices. On one license the winning bid was NZ$100,000. The price paid was NZ$6. On another the winner bid NZ$7 million and paid NZ$5,000. The sale was projected to raise NZ$250 million. It raised NZ$36 million. The country decided the theory was insane. The country was wrong about which part failed. Every bid was honest and every license went to whoever wanted it most, exactly as designed. The money vanished because there were no reserve prices and ten near-identical licenses were sold in parallel, so the second-highest bid on any one of them could be almost nothing. Then the bids were published and everyone saw a company that would have paid NZ$100,000 hand over NZ$6. That is the real scandal. Not the money. The visibility. Vickrey won the Nobel for this work in October 1996. He was dead three days later. The mechanism did not stay in New Zealand. It is why eBay asks for your maximum instead of your bid. The price was never set by how badly you wanted the thing. It was set by the second-most-eager person in the room, and you have spent your whole life negotiating as if that were not true.

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  Meat-Head (@MeatHead_Motors) reported 45 minutes ago

  @MattTakeThree @SEAMAC_VALET @TheAA_UK Last time I played with one that had a problem was 2012 ish. Common enough for someone to sell emulators on eBay

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  Vates (@polysophical) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Eternal_Saints_ Whenever I can't find something on eBay/Amazon, my go to is Eborn, Benchmark, or Confetti books. Some of the best stuff I've bought through Eborn: - Robert F. Smith's Unpublished Manuscript "Urim" - Mr. Boren and the White Salamander, Mormonism Magic and Masonry, and other harder to find Jerald/Sandra Tanner pamphlets - Various Ogden ***** pamphlets - 1883 Salt Lake School of the Prophets Minute Book - Levi and Mosiah Hancock Journal - Poetical Writings of Orson F. Whitney My most recent order was supposed to be Gospel Problems and Supplement to Gospel Problems by Heber Bennion, but the former turned out to be out of stock and refunded

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  Project Nexus (@ProjectNexusUS) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 They died by 2010 for the most part. One I used to go to growing up still remains extremely popular with a steady 95%+ occupancy. Rental costs and poorly accepted businesses is what killed them. Coupled with the fact that that was by design, to discourage kids from hanging out at malls. They slowly put in more doctors office type businesses. Too many stores that were basically the same things, and businesses that appealed to older people who didn't go to malls anyway because of the younger people. They visited the anchors and that wasn't keeping the malls alive. They got rid of the stores that the younger people enjoyed first. Then it was all down hill. Also..and probably most importantly, store front rental costs went through the roof along with the other obvious factor, it became extremely cheap to buy the same things online through places like eBay and Amazon. Malls should and could easily make a comeback now though. They just need to offer experiences, places the younger AND older generations want to shop, and not have repeating themed stores.. oh one other thing...the other all I went to growing up was plagued by hoakey kiosk businesses that most of the time were run by total scammers . Selling cellphone cases and t shirts and pictures type stuff. And there was a lot of them. It was obnoxious.

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  Cait Sith Apologist (@FizzOpera) reported 56 minutes ago

  @norainthefuture eBay being like two blocks down isn’t helping. Like “come bring everything here and we will help you list it”

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  The Real Tony G (@NoFlipNoFuture) reported 59 minutes ago

  I like how this individual says: "We have been having authenticity issues on Ebay." As the buyer or the seller? Verify my product or theirs? It sure seems like he or she is trying to get me to play Ansel Adams for their own motivations... Which, by the way, is a pretty good idea! (If you're a scammer, and lack all that critical packaging). Next time, maybe ask three legit sellers for two pictures each?

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  ***** Kaperki (@carjdun) reported 59 minutes ago

  @ElofsonJess On January 9 2013, Howard County MD, Agent Scott Windish and Agent Nick Jonte and 1 More agent came from Baltimore downtown Secret Service headquarters, came to my house without search warrant , blackmailed us saying that we will shut down your business account if you don’t give us the money in your bank account because of 2 stolen phones we purchased from eBay without any knowledge . Agent Scott Windish then opened my car glove box and took 3k cash and took my phone on the way to Wells Fargo and we waited at the Wells Fargo waiting for the teller in line for 10 min and he made me say the teller write a 39.000 dollars cashiers check under SECRET SERVICE and after they took me to STARBUCKS and made me sign paperworks… Need our money back 39 K was seized as check , 3 K cash and 15 K attorney fees . Total 57 K additional 13 years of interest . We have agreed to meet with you on February 12, 2013 @ 1:00 pm at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore. In order to prepare for this meeting, we are respectfully requesting that you provide a copy of any and all documents generated as a result of his encounters with the Secret Service, including but not limited to, a copy of the check (front & back) reflecting the funds that were seized from him as well as any deposit slips and other banking records; a copy of the purported agreement authorization to cooperate with and consent to the SS in connection with the seizure of his funds; a copy of any and all reports reflecting any statements allegedly made by him; any documents which reflect that he was provided warnings constitutionally mandated by Miranda v Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) and which reflect that he waived his Miranda rights; any documents which reflect that he was provided an opportunity to consult..

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  Shawna Clawson Chambers (@MsWindflower) reported 59 minutes ago

  @lenac2009 @OwenGregorian I’ve bought 3 on Temu. I only wanted 2 but I spaced on the first one and bought a battery operated one instead of a USB rechargeable. If you get a battery one, it’s 50/50 that it will be a 9-volt, which gets pricey over the long run. The biggest issue is the pads - they have 2 styles, one is a kind of snap on dohickey and the other is a straight post so make sure you’re not buying the wrong pads or units that don’t use the same pads. I generally buy pads in bulk on eBay but if you’re careful with them, they’re usually good for 5-7 times to put on and take off; I tend to roll mine because I put them where my underwear band is so I go through them faster there than anywhere else. I would also recommend that you check out all the settings for the pattern of the shocks on your forearm at a very low intensity before putting them anywhere near your spine because a) it’s painful because it’s an electric zap the first couple times, b) not every pattern is going to work for you, and c) never put anything close to your spine until you know what you’re doing. You don’t put the pads directly on your spine, either, and never, ever on your cervical spine! I put my neck pads about 3 fingers away on my shoulders and even that probably isn’t a great idea but I have issues along my entire spine and I have to interrupt the neural pulses at multiple levels or I don’t get the relief I’m looking for. They make different types of TENS units and the only one you don’t want is advertised as working your muscles; they don’t do anything for muscles they describe anyway and they sometimes have a really strong zap because they’re on the abdomen. Just my opinion but why risk buying something that could do more damage than good? I love my TENS units and they do more for me than massage therapy. But it’s subjective because again, electric zap is painful until you get used to it. Once I’m at the highest intensity level I can get between 4-6 hours where my lower back isn’t screaming but I settle for less on my neck and mid back because I don’t have as much nerve damage there yet and I don’t have to go as high or as long.

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  Tarra 🇵🇸 (@freesickdepravd) reported 60 minutes ago

  Since eBay is still refusing to do anything I reported the issue to PayPal to at least get my money back hopefully