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 (63%)
• 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	7 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	14 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	23 hours ago
Mainz	Sign in	1 day ago
Preston	Website Down	2 days ago
Preston	Website Down	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported 1 second ago

  Pull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬

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  kitchen witchen 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kitchen_witchen) reported 27 seconds ago

  @eBay This *** AI listing system is slow as molasses in Antarctica. I could do this in half the time and not have to fix literally every step. **** offffff

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  Ripper (@ripper0x) reported 3 minutes ago

  @anglio @eBay this is terrible

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  Kat 🦋 (@ArtemusBlue) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Kurumi96Neko @WholesomeMeme Earphone jack to USB-C adaptor, you can get them for like £3 off Ebay ✨ Problem solved, and it even extends your cable a bit!

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  Carolina24 (@c_collector24) reported 7 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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  Saul (@SaulSellsStuff) reported 7 minutes ago

  Not sure who needs to hear this but you can spend $100,000+ a month just using Amazon as your source of inventory. You can do this at 40%+ ROI. You can beat section 3s and account health problems. You can sell your inventory on Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Whatnot, TikTok, or locally. If you’re an Amazon seller you can also get a complete P&L, cash flow analytics, ungating support, reimbursements, product monitoring, replen dashboards, FBM tracking, order tracking, and more. For free, then $3 a day. You can be as weird as me and do it all from your phone if you’d like. We are building the most complete software package publicly available. Taking no profits out. Doubling down on team and partnerships.

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  Sj (@Pkrguy23) reported 10 minutes ago

  @clarkknowscards DM me and I will tell you how I got out of eBay jail from their error which plagued me for almost 6 months. Should work the same for you.

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  SaThomas (@SaThomas__) reported 12 minutes ago

  @norm19020 @CardPurchaser @eBay Yes, counteroffers are broken.

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  Nigel J Bevans Photo (@NJBDP) reported 13 minutes ago

  @hmefsww Hi, unfortunately I closed my website store down as they were charging a ridiculous amount to sell things. To keep prices reasonably I had to find an alternative and only have eBay at moment. I could do it via paypal cutting out ebay if you would like?

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  Mojo 🇺🇸 (@QMojo8) reported 18 minutes ago

  @OffDaHook35 Sold some slabs at LCS today and narrowed my pc down to a small box. I have a 2000 card lot on eBay to sell the rest. A lot are cards from packs I ripped this year. LCS wouldn’t even look at them

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  Macy 🛸 (@mace_face18) reported 20 minutes ago

  @EmilyDiorXO So stupid. I can get a new head off of ebay for ~$60 but I've literally had this vacuum less than a year. 2-3 times per week usage except the last few months just once per week. The piece itself is not broken I'm seeing but it's breaking the other removable parts (burning them)

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  Penni (@tulipgennaro) reported 26 minutes ago

  Selling on eBay is so slow

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  Mr Hankey (@hivanchi) reported 27 minutes ago

  @eBay your platform is hurting buyers(im also a seller) The return process is broken. Theres no way to talk to people in the US, either by message or call. Some of your reps read the same script over and over again. Ask you for useless information that leads nowhere.

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  rack$ (@mnstacks) reported 28 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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  J & C Collectibles (@JC_colleccoast) reported 28 minutes ago

  🚨 SOS Card Peeps! Need some help ASAP please. 🚨 I received an offer on My Acuff 1/1 card on eBay. The guy offered me a fair price and is now negotiating with me…I’m totally fine with that, but in our chat (on eBay) the user name keeps changing…when I click on the first name at the top of the chat it seems like he is a legit seller/buyer. When the other name pops up, it says “error” Is someone trying to scam me or is this some kind of issue with eBay’s messaging?!? Thanks in advance!

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  Just Looking By The Way (@JustLooking_BTW) reported 30 minutes ago

  @ChevanceLo1 @TrevorAllenMD @YugiMuto91 Literally just takes a eBay listing & dropping it off at an ups or etc. to sell this thing, like you can’t be this slow to think winning the tournament was what he was referring too

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 32 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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  Gerard Hughes ( @ghhughes.bsky.social ) (@ghhughes) reported 33 minutes ago

  @selStreams @austeregrim @RDKLInc You can't buy CPAPs, for example, on eBay. They are class II medical devices and their requires a doctor's prescription. Some people have tried to get around that by selling a CPAP travel bag for $300, which just so happened to have a CPAP in it. But eBay has cracked down on that, too. Not all medical devices require a prescription, though.

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  Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported 34 minutes ago

  Pull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬

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  Naomi June (@njkjh00) reported 35 minutes ago

  @united_imadoki Buying a broken laser pointer for 15 really set the bar for everything sold on eBay ever since

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  Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) reported 36 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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  Zack Morris (@Palladin0) reported 38 minutes ago

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

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  $$D@mouppn?$$ (@Judd29230Judd) reported 41 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser Whatnot ebay and I tried collx but it crashes all the time when scanning anybody else have that issue with collx?

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  ｃｈｅｄｄａｒ (@cheddar420yolo) reported 46 minutes ago

  @IndefiniteLT @VibesMBSE it was before my time but part of CARTER lore is they took a rogue wave shifting home ports from northeast to Bangor. a water column came down the hatch and the ship's computer was right there they had to get the replacement computer from ebay that was the story anyway

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  Dustin Winter (@bluemagephoto) reported 50 minutes ago

  @TucsonToucan @SaffronOlive I have seen worse out of WotC. I remember War of the Spark: Mythic Edition on eBay and ordering 2 of them. WotC had 12k units and a "glitch" caused over 40k to be sold. I ended up with an uncut M/R foil sheet as my order was canceled. After that WotC started Secret Lair.

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  alex bud (@alex_budimir) reported 52 minutes ago

  Anyone else notice how much better listing has gotten? I hadn’t listed cards on eBay in a while because of the fees and how long it took. Used to be 3–5 minutes per card. Listed a few Laz and Rainiel cards today and the AI had me down to about a minute each. @CardPurchaser

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  collectorfix (@collectorfix) reported 54 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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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 56 minutes ago

  Day 208 Total sales: $737.96 eBay earnings: $504.99 Buy cost (COG): $82.27 Net profit: $422.72 ROI: 514% Items sold: Electrical equipment, printer ink, printer parts, automotive transmission parts, marine electronics, & a toilet repair component. Another strong day. $737 in sales & over $422 in net profit from just 7 completed sales. What stands out to me is the variety. Electrical, automotive, marine, printing, plumbing, you don't necessarily need to specialize in one category to build a profitable eBay business. You need to get good at finding the right products at the right price. That's still the biggest lesson I've learned through this journey. A $100 sale isn't nearly as exciting if you paid $90 for it. But when you can consistently find inventory for a fraction of its potential selling price, the numbers start working in your favor. Today's $82.27 in COG turned into $422.72 in profit. That's the game. Buy right. List consistently. Be patient. Keep improving. 208 days down. On to Day 209. 📦💪

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  Brent Wendland (@BrentWendland) reported 57 minutes 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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  Koda (@koda6699) reported 59 minutes ago

  The photograph that disappeared for 150 years Richard Carrington was an astronomer. In 1859, he looked through a telescope and saw something nobody had recorded before. A huge flash erupted from the Sun. Less than a day later, a powerful solar storm hit Earth. Telegraph systems failed. Auroras appeared far beyond their usual range. The event became known as the Carrington Event. But there was one strange problem. Nobody knew what Carrington looked like. No photograph of him could be found. For decades, historians searched museums and archives for a missing portrait. Nothing. Then, in 2025, an archivist at the Royal Astronomical Society checked something much less obvious. eBay. She found an old photograph being sold by a shop in Pittsburgh. The seller had simply listed it as: “Photo of Mr Carrington.” It was him. On the back, faint writing gave another clue: “R C Carrington, Esquire for C V Walker, Esquire.” The photograph had been missing for about 150 years. Now it has a home in the Royal Astronomical Society archives.