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
South Ockendon	Sign in	20 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Southampton	Errors	1 day ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago
Valady	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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  El American (@elandrecito66) reported 40 seconds ago

  @eBay Why doesn't eBay have a single customer service rep with whom I can talk? Their pervasive use of AI to ward off customer issues and concerns troubles me greatly. I guess I will need to ask for my money back with my credit card, since eBay so effectively seeks to block me from any real, human interaction. It is too bad. I always liked eBay. But when you need them, they simply are not there.

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  0xJamesMadison_DFS (@badvalla40301) reported 47 seconds ago

  @Xaraphim This guy seems retarded.... Mac's are not made to be server hardware... But then again he can sell them on eBay after using them as an AI inference cluster and people won't know that it is 500x more likely to fail now

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  #TRUMPARMY2024🇺🇸 © (@TRUMPARMYISBACK) reported 5 minutes ago

  Cool beanz.. the seller (on eBay) sent me an offer I simply couldn’t refuse. I love these @PelicanProducts Vault V100’s for smaller (yet very expensive) things that you absolutely have to protect from the “elements. Especially a green one to differentiate between my bino’s and “other” items. I make a slit in the top piece of foam & stick a brand new 2nd Gen #Airtag in EVERY ONE I buy so if I misplace them or they get stolen.. I can track it down in a few clicks. I also buy the 20gram silica packs & stick two to three (4x in my ACSS scope box) to keep whatever’s inside nice & dry despite the Houston humidity. #ta

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  ☣️ Flack The Ripper ☣️ (@FlackAtk) reported 14 minutes ago

  @meganarianism Lol I guess this reflects back into real life, Its way more convenient to just slap it up on ebay than individual FB groups, responding to messages and everything, but its like cmon, atleast fix the roads in Durotar....

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  Midnightpulls JP (@midnightpullsjp) reported 15 minutes ago

  @CardGameNomad Don't just shut down eBay sales, force eBay to share the seller's personal information and sue these people into the ground. They all deserve to win stupid prizes for playing stupid games. Also applies to everyone selling these packs/cards anywhere else, mind you.

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  DrVoodoo🐉🥋 (@Drvoodooo) reported 16 minutes ago

  They will go on eBay within the same week. No issue at all

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  🔪b3rn (@flower_bern) reported 17 minutes ago

  This eBay guy refunded my order and I get to keep a vintage cd player … I have a new DIY fix it project 😎

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  LSTNSCRFN (@LsTdiecast) reported 19 minutes ago

  Update…. You might wanna sell customs privately altogether NASCAR is going door to door shutting down people’s eBay accounts for selling customs.

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  Vsadix2112 (@Vsadix2112) reported 20 minutes ago

  @HagaEme @cryaboutitboy The point is to not purchase anything that will put money in Sony playstation's pocket. People are purchasing second hand games from ebay and such. And showing no PSN activity by disconnecting from the internet to show the scope of players participating in the outage. More or less.

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  Bradson (@Bradsongeye) reported 23 minutes ago

  Caller: “Dave… I’m 16. I’m making $50–80k a month dropshipping and flipping on Amazon/eBay. I’ve got over $300k sitting in PayPal right now. But I’m hiding all of it from my mom because she’s traditional and I know she’ll freak out and make me stop.” Dave: “Son, that income is impressive as hell. If you were my kid I’d tell you to keep running it while the window is open. But the secret? That part’s not sitting right with me. Find one adult you both respect, sit down, and have the grown-up conversation. And while this money is printing, start stacking real skills and education, because internet trends don’t last forever. You’re crushing it right now. Don’t let the lie become the thing that sinks you.”

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  TYRED (@TYRED79722907) reported 25 minutes ago

  @HustleBitch_ Buy the machine on ebay and learn to fix it yourself Never go to the stealership for anything

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  Paul Hensley (@KCPaulHens) reported 26 minutes ago

  @HSkeptical @tommy2lightning @karenvaites You think kids these days care about their grades?! This is the problem! Teachers still think that the grade is the inspiration. Teachers don’t inspire anymore. They’re the low rung on the ladder. Why would kids listen when their buddy is reselling kicks on eBay making $1m/year.

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  Crshamo (@crshamo) reported 28 minutes ago

  Ebay image search is not working on my iPhone? Anyone have suggestions?

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  stefanopineda (@stefanopineda) reported 34 minutes ago

  @bot is a really convenient place to run routines (cron jobs). My sister needs a video editing PC so every morning @bot searches eBay for 32GB DDR5 auctions with decent CPUs under $400. Nice to have on Mac / iPhone as opposed to Hermes / Openclaw on server.

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  ItsMeCooper (@ItsaMeCooper) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Rakermoon I saw a post with a communication from ebay that took down the listing so I really hope they keep doing this

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  Slick Paper (@Slick_Paper) reported 40 minutes ago

  @CGC_SI @tohardtoocall Some lucky guy beat me to a newstand issue for $10 about a month ago on eBay. From the photos it looked like a solid 8, maybe better.

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  Vitaliy Sokolov (@askvitaliy_) reported 43 minutes ago

  @SMB_Attorney When I started in business, you had to put the card in that little manual knuckle-buster imprinter with the carbon paper. That meant the card was physically present. Back in the day, we made a photocopy of the customer's credit card and ID to verify they were actually there and check their face against the ID. People literally never disputed a charge unless their card was physically stolen, at which point they would call the bank, say they were robbed, and provide a police report. Where this all went wrong was with eBay and PayPal. Suddenly it became: "You didn't get the product" or "It's not what you expected," followed by endless disputes. That is where it all began. When it comes to smaller banks, if you send them evidence, they will actually read it. But with the top ten banks in the United States, the person reviewing your case is almost certainly overseas (like Chase having reps in the Philippines). Do you think they read it or care what you wrote? Customers claim they never received a product, so we submit the UPS label, tracking data, GPS coordinates, and the delivery photo showing the package dropped at their door. You still lose the dispute. Why? Because nobody actually reviews the evidence; they just decide at random. The entire credit card processing system is fundamentally broken, driven by two core issues: 1. Widespread customer abuse with zero accountability: Customers increasingly abuse chargebacks simply to avoid paying for items, especially high-value goods, because they know there are no consequences. Even when customers dispute a charge by accident (for example, mixing it up with other unrecognized charges) and promise via email to call their bank and fix it, they forget, and the merchant still loses. Furthermore, most businesses do not work with direct merchant acquirers; they use payment aggregators who do not fight chargebacks the same way a direct processor would. The banks simply do not care enough to fix this. 2. Outdated legacy infrastructure and evaluation: The evidence-collection and review processes are completely archaic. AI would make far better, fairer decisions analyzing dispute evidence than manual overseas reviewers. People often blame Visa or Mastercard, but chargeback decisions are made by the issuing banks. Payment processors love to label businesses as "high risk." We are not high-risk; the issue is simply that consumers buy items they do not want to pay for. If the industry had a centralized database tracking how many chargebacks an individual consumer files across cards, the "high-risk merchant" label wouldn't even need to exist, because verifying buyer legitimacy would be straightforward. Back in the day, merchant processors physically visited your business to inspect your operation and verify your inventory before giving you merchant access. Today, aggregators let anyone instantly open an account without even verifying their identity, enabling scammers to set up fake storefronts selling $50 iPhones. Then, two days later, they freeze legitimate accounts demanding identity verification out of nowhere. The entire model needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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  Tung Nguyen (@tritonbear99) reported 45 minutes ago

  At 13, Vitalii Dodonov's father gave him a choice: pocket money, or a job packing parachutes at his drop zone. He took the job. It came with summers together. He is now CTO of Stan, which does about $30M a year with 30 people and takes 0% of what creators sell. Four things I learned from him at FounderHouse today. 1. At 17, studying in Canada meant roughly $100,000 in debt. He built an Excel sheet: salaries, living costs, repayment timelines, ten years out. The math said Canada. 2. He told his father he didn't speak English. His father said that was his problem. 3. He was not trained as a software engineer. He studied chemical engineering and computer process control, worked at Deloitte and eBay, then taught himself to build. 4. Late 2022, at roughly $1M ARR, he and John Hu deleted the transaction fee. Competitors were taking 10 to 20% of creator sales. Stan went to a flat subscription and creators kept the upside. Revenue grew 8.5x the following year. Today: $600M+ in creator earnings, 85,000 active creators. Outside capital: one $5M seed from Forerunner. Traditional advertising: none. He also still builds in public. He spent two weeks posting an AI agent on LinkedIn while he was building it. That agent became Stanley. It shipped in 14 days. Most technical leaders I know publish less as they get more senior. He does the opposite. When was the last time you published something before you had it figured out? Stanley is live. Try it yourself 👇

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  Dan | Play Solo D&D With Endless RPG (@DanielNations) reported 46 minutes ago

  Here's something of interest to anyone with Guitar and Amp Buying Syndrome (an undiagnosed but real problem with some of us!). I was looking at some kingsley pedals on Reverb many of the *used* pedals were listed at $200+ above their price brand new on he Kingsley website. This just goes to show: Always do your homework. A lot of gear on Reverb/Ebay has its price hiked to make a quick buck.

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 46 minutes ago

  The professor who designed America's health insurance system covering 330 million people teaches this class for free on YouTube. His students have gone on to advise governments, run hedge funds, and build policy at the World Bank. This is lecture 1. In 1776 Adam Smith asked why diamonds cost more than water. Water keeps you alive. Diamonds do not. The demand for water is enormous. The demand for diamonds is small. By any rational logic, water should cost more. He was wrong about what he was measuring. This is Jonathan Gruber, MIT 14.01, Microeconomics. The man who built the mathematical model behind Obamacare and Romneycare. The man who testified before Congress six times. He now teaches the most foundational idea in economics to anyone willing to watch. Smith's error was looking at only half the picture. He saw demand. He missed supply. Water is everywhere. Diamonds are rare. When supply is low enough, even something nobody needs can cost more than something everyone needs. That single insight became the foundation of every economic model ever built - and every career in finance, policy, and consulting that depends on it. He opens with opportunity cost. Every decision you make has a cost. Not just the money you spend. The thing you did not do instead. If you buy a rose for $3, you gave up a slice of pizza and a Coke. If the price rises to $4, the opportunity cost rises too. You want fewer. That is why demand curves slope downward. Not because of some law. Because of what you gave up. Then supply. A farm can grow roses or something else. When the price of roses is low, the farmer grows something else. When the price rises high enough, roses become the better choice. The opportunity cost of not growing roses becomes too high. That is why supply curves slope upward. Then the equilibrium. Two equations, two unknowns. Demand: quantity equals 1,800 minus 400 times price. Supply: quantity equals 200 times price. Set them equal. You get 600 roses at $3 each. At that price, buyers are willing to pay and sellers are willing to sell. The system has come to rest. Then the kidney on eBay. Someone auctioned one in the 1990s. Bidding reached $5 million before eBay shut it down. The positive question: why did the price get so high? Easy. Enormous demand, almost no supply. The normative question: should we be allowed to sell our organs? The market delivers the right quantity. It does not deliver fairness. Watch the moment he says economics is fundamentally a right-wing science. Then says he is a left-wing guy. Then explains why both things can be true at the same time. A policy analyst I know rewatched this before their first week at a government economics office. Said it was the first time supply and demand felt like a lens rather than a diagram. Free on YouTube, MIT OpenCourseWare, Creative Commons license. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every price you see will feel like a supply and demand equation waiting to be solved

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  Trash Cat Magnet (@KoF__HM04) reported 47 minutes ago

  Ordered a card on eBay and the seller DMd me and said “thanks for the order, I’m guessing you’re a Gogeta fan?” brother I’m just trying to play a broken deck and this card is unfair lmao

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  Matt (@DigbySkankPants) reported 47 minutes ago

  @pokemartalerts Should apply to all new sets amount of times you see PC preorders go live within 5 mins eBay are flooded with confirmed preorder listings. Ban private seller accounts shouldn’t doing this combat the issue of scalping

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  jonny randomseed (@DispairSoftware) reported 47 minutes ago

  @pugnacious_polk I have a x1 carbon i believe 5th gen i got on ebay. turns out its locked out of windows because it was stollen from some company out of Dubai (no wonder it was such a good deal). then an m710q and an m715q in my 10 inch server rack. considering getting another tiny

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  Thrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי (@ThrillScience) reported 50 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc @eBay The problem is with "flat rate" I have to be U.S. only. Every now and then I get a buyer in AK or HI and I usually just eat the cost. (USPS tends to be cheapest to those states.)

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  Terry Boyd (@Tracer17841) reported 52 minutes ago

  @eBay department because one or several of their employees with full access to payment information on eBay clients both Buyers & Sellers is skimming info off & selling it on the Dark Net, this includes virtual card numbers. The biggest problem I have with Merrick Mastercard is

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  Danny (@MadTown_Collect) reported 52 minutes ago

  @PokeFreezeNotif Talked to eBay today, no further actions will be taken. They just took down my card and ask not to repost it.

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  Anonymousconservativ (@rK_Politics) reported 54 minutes ago

  @BigDwoowoo @NTSurvivors I hate to say it but I think the Bar Association was taken over by them, to control who is allowed to practice law, and now all lawyers seem to cut you off at mention of the word "surveillance." If you are motivated, you could go Pro-se, and use a specialist AI like Courtroom 5. You can talk to it like me, and it will tell you step by step what to do, and churn out all the paperwork you would need. But you are going to need hard evidence. The best evidence I think you will get will come from getting a thermal camera like maybe a Goyojo monocular on a tripod (as low as a few hundred on EBAY), set it up to record you while you sleep, and put a layer of foil on top of paper towels (to keep it cool) over you. The beam should heat the foil, and in my case I have a nice image of a TEM-02 or TEM-03 laser bloom actively focusing on the foil, and from how it skims, you can show it is coming from the neighbor's house. You will get discovery, and from there you can get creative. But it will be an uphill battle for now. IMO, things are changing, and in one to three years, I predict there are national revelations of massive criminality in the IC, and the legal terrain will shift massively in our favor. At that point the biggest problem will be waiting to get heard, among all the cases against all the surveillance people. Hang tough brother.

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  r a t z o n e 🐀🎀🎂 (@fascinationstrt) reported 55 minutes ago

  I don't know why but I'm rapidly developing a fixation on finding old *** issues of nat geo magazine I'm getting to the point of seriously considering paying the frankly ridiculous prices on ebay because I might die if I don't get my hands on more soon

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  Alan (@newzphotos) reported 57 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay fix your ongoing issue with not being able to add a charity due to your issue with delivery options. Also the A.I. chat feature & phone technical support have been useless regarding this matter !

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  stefanopineda (@stefanopineda) reported 59 minutes ago

  @bot is a really convenient place to run routines (cron jobs). My sister needs a video editing PC so every morning @bot searches eBay for 32GB DDR5 auctions with decent CPUs under $400. Nice to have on Mac / iPhone as opposed to Hermes / OpenClaw on server.