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 (50%)
• Sign in (31%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Preston	Website Down	2 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	8 hours ago
Coatesville	Errors	15 hours ago
Ashburn	Website Down	15 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	16 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	21 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  b0bba (@b0bbaTV) reported 4 minutes ago

  @OsirisOrigins Yep! Same! I hated having it weight my limp wrists down and getting buzzed with notifications all the time. I’ve put mine on eBay. I had a discount code so put it to good use 🧑‍💻 I must’ve ✨manifested✨ it!!

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  Aglia (@224osk) reported 5 minutes ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen This feels like when adam aron bought hymc, they moved the flow of capital away from amc into hymc. So what will happen here is gme to 15 bucks and ebay to 125+ meanwhile gme will continue down to poverty levels but ceo walks with billions.

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  ARB_Investing (@BetterDays47) reported 8 minutes ago

  @lasvegas_ape It’s down because RC will acquire eBay one way or another and dilution will happen. RC himself told in the interview a dilution would happen.

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  bubblehead_ripz_cardz (@BubbleheadRipz) reported 9 minutes ago

  Has anyone else’s eBay sales been slow? #thehobby #THFpro

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  Canadian3DPrinting (@Canadian3DPrint) reported 12 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g EBay is a dumpster fire. They openly let buyers scam sellers by letting them say they didn’t receive an item and automatically reimburse the buyer from the sellers account. I shut it down a few years ago now. Scammers everywhere

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  CJ (@Cjayson4444) reported 12 minutes ago

  @TimothyGre12262 Yeah, I get on eBay and sometimes can’t resist, couple weeks ago I bid way more than I should on a Gibson SG and was hoping someone would outbid me and they did. But this one wasn’t too bad and I wanted a vintage broken in guitar and I never tried a telecaster before. Now I see why they’re so popular, it sounds so good and it never seems to go out of tune.

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  David Mac (@LegacyMac114) reported 17 minutes ago

  @DonaldTodd1 @Comedyorwat @ryancohen It’s not diluting to 2.5 billion shares lol. Dilution is if he sold the shares into the market after getting them. Increasing the share amount is how he will issue half stock for EBAY

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  Nathan Shobe (@NShobe) reported 17 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g You know what ebay needs? "eBay local". Put up a fight against Facebook marketplace and Craigslist. FB marketplace is trash, and clist died when they started to charge for posting. Pls fix. Thx.

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  starsportscards (@starsportscard1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @ryancohen @TheJusticeDept By the time you get charged the "ad" fee, you could be paying up to 43% in fees to ebay. That's not growth, that's just down right criminal behavior. @TheJusticeDept

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  Chaotic Gamer Josh (@ChaoticGameJosh) reported 20 minutes ago

  So the laptop I got off eBay has a bit of a issue with Bluetooth and its range. I can't connect my wireless headset that I normally use for streaming when its more than a foot away. I still wanna keep the laptop, so I'm gonna try and find a wired headset that I can use instead.

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  NonMundane (@n0nmundan3) reported 23 minutes ago

  Ok, this is a warning about @ebay Now they will lie to you in many ways. One of the most important ways is any way in which they will claim to empower you as a seller, but actually will punish you for being a problem. They have something called "defects" and they can't WAIT to

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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 23 minutes ago

  @MrJdotETH @ryancohen Scammers and bad sellers are the biggest problem on eBay right now. The hope is GameStop's ownership would actually prioritize trust over fee extraction. A marketplace that vets sellers and takes a cut only on closed deals would solve both problems at once.

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  John Carletto (@jcarletto27) reported 24 minutes ago

  @PayPal My paypal account of 18 years was permanently blocked this morning, with no reason given. Your support staff has been less than helpful. I use paypal every week for automated payments, Apple, Google play, and Ebay purchases. I have not broken your TOS.

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  Scroll Keeper (@ScrollsOfEmber) reported 26 minutes ago

  @HeartUElon @Timcast No, you read it wrong, because it's sacrilege to destroy the taste of an espresso by watering it down... It's like installing an eBay exhaust on a Ferrari 🤌🏼

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  Thumb Out 42 (@42thumbout) reported 26 minutes ago

  @fbb4official @eBay Feels like RC sold us out driving the price down to absolute b**** numbers. What are your thoughts?

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  Enkhmanal 🟠 (@Enkhmanal) reported 31 minutes ago

  eBay Just Rejected GameStop's $56 Billion Bid As 'Neither Credible Nor Attractive' — Ryan Cohen's Most Audacious Move Got Slapped Down In Public eBay's board just publicly rejected GameStop's $56 billion takeover bid in the most dismissive language possible. Chairman Paul Pressler issued a statement Tuesday that the offer is "neither credible nor attractive" and that eBay's board is "confident the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth." That is corporate-speak for "go away." For anyone who has not been following this saga, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen — the meme-stock-era folk hero who became GameStop's largest shareholder and turned the dying video game retailer into a $12 billion crypto-and-Bitcoin treasury vehicle — bid last week to acquire eBay for $56 billion. The bid was half-cash, half-stock, backed by a $20 billion debt financing commitment from TD Bank. The bid was approximately 4x GameStop's own market cap. Why this bid never made sense on paper The proposal had problems from day one. Let me lay out the math. GameStop's market cap is around $12 billion. eBay's is around $54 billion (down to $51 billion after Tuesday's announcement). For GameStop to acquire eBay at $56 billion, it would need to either: • Raise something close to $30 billion of debt against the combined company • Dilute GameStop shareholders to roughly 25% of the combined entity • Or both The TD Bank financing commitment was $20 billion — meaningful, but only a third of the deal value. The rest of the financing was theoretical. eBay's CEO Jamie Iannone has actually been running a real turnaround. Since he took the position six years ago, eBay's stock has returned 201%. The company has reinvented its category-specific verticals (collectibles, sneakers, refurbished electronics), launched payment products, and improved seller economics. eBay shareholders have done well under current management. The board has zero incentive to entertain a bid from a smaller, more speculative company unless the price is extraordinarily compelling. $56 billion was not. What Ryan Cohen was actually doing Cohen is one of the most interesting capital allocators in the public markets right now. He spent the last five years transforming GameStop from a brick-and-mortar video game retailer with declining same-store sales into something genuinely strange: a public-market vehicle for buying Bitcoin, hoarding cash, and using its meme-stock-era retail investor base to fund increasingly large balance-sheet plays. GameStop currently holds: • Around $5 billion in cash and short-term investments • A growing Bitcoin treasury • Minimal operating cash flow from the actual gaming business That balance sheet plus Cohen's reputation in the retail trading community has historically been enough to push GameStop's stock to valuations that make no sense for a video game retailer. Cohen has been very good at using that valuation as currency. The eBay bid was the boldest version of that play. If accepted, GameStop would become a real e-commerce platform overnight. The combined company would have $100+ billion in marketplace GMV, real free cash flow, and a credible AI/payments roadmap. The video game-related identity of GameStop would functionally disappear, replaced by something more like an Amazon-adjacent marketplace operator. The bid was Cohen's attempt to use GameStop's premium valuation to acquire an actual durable business. Why eBay's "no" matters When a target board publicly rejects a bid using the word "credible," it is doing two things: 1. Inoculating against shareholder pressure. eBay knows Cohen has built a 5% position in eBay and signaled he might call a special shareholder meeting. The board's public rejection establishes the official position — we looked at it, we don't think it works, here's why — so any future shareholder vote happens with the board's view already on the record. 2. Discouraging follow-on bids. If eBay had said "we're considering it" or "we want better terms," it would have signaled that a higher bid might work. By saying the bid is "not credible," eBay is telling Cohen and any potential future bidder that no amount of money from this configuration of buyer with this financing structure is going to clear the board. If you want to bid for eBay, bring real cash, a strategic logic, and a deal that does not depend on $30 billion of speculative debt. Where the GameStop story goes from here GameStop has three plausible paths from here: Path A: Cohen takes it to shareholders directly. He has built a 5% position, which is enough to call a special meeting in many circumstances. He can try to force a shareholder vote on the merger, betting that retail investors who love both Cohen and the meme-stock narrative will overwhelm institutional shareholders skeptical of the deal. The math on this is hard — eBay's institutional investor base is concentrated, and major asset managers (Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity) are unlikely to back a leveraged take-under by a much smaller acquirer. Path B: Cohen walks away and the eBay stake becomes a tax-loss event. GameStop's 5% position in eBay was bought at average prices that may have been near eBay's recent highs. If the bid effectively collapses, eBay's stock could drift back toward $90-95 and GameStop's position becomes a meaningful unrealized loss. Cohen would either need to sell (locking the loss) or hold and wait for eBay's strategic plan to deliver. Path C: Cohen pivots to a different target. GameStop's balance sheet is still real cash. Cohen has been signaling that he wants GameStop to become an acquirer of real operating businesses. If eBay is off the table, the next logical targets are smaller — Etsy ($8B market cap), Wayfair ($8B), or a niche marketplace operator. Those deals would actually be doable given GameStop's existing capital structure. The cultural moment The GameStop-eBay story is a perfect Bookend to the 2021 meme-stock era. Five years ago, retail investors used GameStop's stock as a weapon against hedge funds shorting the company. The collective action turned a dying retailer into a household name and made Ryan Cohen into a folk hero. He then used that momentum to transform GameStop into a balance sheet that could attempt audacious moves like buying eBay. The rejection by eBay's board is the corporate establishment saying: we have not forgotten the rules, and the rules still apply. A small company cannot acquire a larger company using mostly speculative financing and stock that trades at a meme premium. Capital markets eventually impose discipline on capital structure even when retail investors are willing to keep the dance going. Whether or not you like Ryan Cohen, the eBay rejection is the most important institutional pushback against the meme-stock model in years. Watch GameStop's next move — that tells us whether Cohen learned the lesson or whether he doubles down on something even bigger and stranger.

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  Ađam (@thetrgrf) reported 33 minutes ago

  @jmeredith2015 @NewAgeCardKings @Scott_YaDigg i mainly priced them how i did since they are sealed and i went off eBay last solds for sealed. Would you be willing to call it $14 and $19. I also have 2 eevees so if you wanted both id be down to just call each eevee $17. I know youre going off raw pricing but they are sealed.

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  Jorgey (@Jorgey_x) reported 35 minutes ago

  @eevblog So this is why you basically want GameStop to buy Ebay. To fix ALL of this.

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  GeeDeeCee (@DennisHarwich) reported 36 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Yeah and you're too much of a ***** to issue a blockchain dividend for $GME . Sounds like you're even more of a "hollow man" than the eBay **** heads are.

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  miata (@miatafolife) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Greenyodais1 @CultLaser Ebay brother. I got a K1 Max for $240 with just a broken screen.

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  En Sabah Nur, Mewtwo's Master (@Keith16King) reported 39 minutes ago

  I can't be the only one who's been having problems since the New Year getting their eBay items in the mail. I don't know what ******** is going on but **** is getting old fast!!!!!!!!

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  Goodness And Mercy (@FineAndRich) reported 41 minutes ago from Manhattan, New York

  eBay just told GameStop to sit back down and it’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen all year. Imagine turning down a $55 billion check because you’d rather stay relevant for three more months than let the Funko Pop kings touch your UI. Delusional.

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  tokyoto (@bball4224) reported 43 minutes ago

  @swanson18982373 @alt_w_v_g If he's the owner of a slimy company and didn't fix it, what makes you think he would fix ebay?

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  Drunk Superman (@DrunkSuperman3) reported 44 minutes ago

  @larrykingundead @Wozniat I don't know how many people thought Superman was going stay dead. But i remember people who thought that issue was going be worth big money. And you get a sealed black polybag for 20 bucks on ebay today. lol. You really should only collect something unless your really enjoy it.

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  denny (@dennyluan) reported 50 minutes ago

  funny story, bluebird SRs ran a distributor instead of a coil pack, and the one on my donor engine was dead. in 2005 i posted on craigslist, and tracked down a spare ECU in Everett, WA from a 70 year old man who collected 240sx's. he was a millionaire from selling old farmland he bought in the 1950s, and for fun he built a barn with two working lifts just to restore S13 240sx's to showroom condition with all OEM parts. he had probably 10+ in various states that once finished he'd just sell to random people. he had a separate barn with a hidden sliding door with a room full of spare parts he collected off ebay. i spent a day with him driving back and forth between his farms to try and find the part. ive always wondered what happened to him, and regretted not staying in touch. pic of the beat up dodge colt he drove.

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  PrincesStarfire ✰ || comms open !! (@PrincesRma) reported 50 minutes ago

  I want to read Transformers More than Meets the Eye/Lost Light, comic that ended in 2018 eBay sells volumes for 200-300 USD each I live in South East Asia with ASEAN currency My local book shop can't even get new issues of the current Transformers run What now, Brandon?

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  Evan V. ✝️ (@Ichiro_dfw) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Shakunetsu3S ebay showing me 1.5-3k usd, which isn't surprising but I was wondering if that was it. Was snooping through jp proxy sites and found some for cheaper, but varying levels of quality I'm not in any rush to buy one, just thinking about getting one later down the line

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  GATEWAY XCHANGE (@Gatewayxchange_) reported 52 minutes ago

  @DeItaone Ryan Cohen not backing down — escalates the eBay takeover bid after the board rejected his massive $56B offer. Calling eBay “literally obese” and extremely bloated? Brutal but accurate. The company needs serious surgery, and Cohen has a proven track record of turning around struggling retailers. This is what real activist capitalism looks like — challenging complacent boards and pushing for actual value creation. Game on. 🚀

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  Ecomint NEWS (@ecomintnews) reported 53 minutes ago

  🚨 DEVELOPING: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Escalates eBay Takeover Battle 🚨 ​Following the rejection of his $56 billion unsolicited bid, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is doubling down. In a formal letter to the eBay board, Cohen demanded that shareholders be given the final word on the $125-per-share cash-and-stock proposal. ​The bid, which eBay dismissed as "neither credible nor attractive," represents a significant premium over recent trading prices.

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  Leo (@Leo_R_UK) reported 58 minutes ago

  @KaiXCreator 16gb - 24gb range. You don’t need an expensive machine to code. Install your coding assistant on a remote server. Have all your skills/tools/assets remote. This server shouldn’t be expensive either. Look on eBay, cheap HP i5 / i7 32gb (less that £150) You don’t need a powerful machine to use terminal!