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 (15%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	5 hours ago
Southampton	Errors	13 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	15 hours ago
Valady	Website Down	15 hours ago
London	Sign in	16 hours ago
Manchester	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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  William Heist (@heistypokerdlr) reported 1 minute ago

  @mycardinv3ntory I've sold sealed a bunch on EBAY and never a problem.

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  🎧 luxie jane 🌧️ (@void_corpsexo) reported 1 minute ago

  Wait why is the official corpse merch store down thought it didn't exist anymore?! also corpse himself said "please don't buy fake merch, they're trash & low quality" i brought my corpse hoodie from eBay it still is in good condition and it's real. why do people do this.

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  Ricky Agrawal (@thevraa) reported 5 minutes ago

  @dannolan hey man those prices look terrible i think you can get cheaper $/tb from ebay, i just grabbed some used toshibas with 0 bad sectors (long test verified)

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  Christopher Galakoutis 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@CGGalakoutis) reported 6 minutes ago

  @BillAckman Reselling is a big problem generally, Bill, look at EBay listings of collectible products bought up by bots, leaving consumers empty handed.

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 6 minutes ago

  @VirtualJames @eBay Yes eBay’s international shipping prices are so inflated that it’s practically killed the global shipping program. This problem i mention is compounding the international issue.

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  Björno Bodhisattva (@cafelebee) reported 6 minutes ago

  I’ve been a gamer since 1998. I don’t think I’ve EVER had this much trouble getting a physical game on or shortly after the release date. My entire life, there’s always been a standard that if you wake up early and go to your local video game store, you can get a copy (if you can get there before a line forms or they sell out). And even then, there’s copies that restock shortly thereafter. It’s been two weeks. Ya’ll should be embarrassed by the current eBay listings. Yes I saw your posts @bethesda @BethesdaStudios saying more copies are coming but this is ridiculous. September is next week and NONE of the stores or their websites have any copies.

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 11 minutes ago

  THE 90s ARE NEXT. The market has spent decades deciding what matters in vintage pop culture. Now it is paying serious money for the cards it has canonised. A 1966 Topps Batman #1 PSA 9 sold for US$131,250 in December. There is no PSA 10. A 1977 Topps Luke Skywalker #1 PSA 10 sold for US$687,500 in May. Seven months earlier, the record was $268,400. These aren't obscure cards being dragged upwards by a hot market. Batman and Star Wars are two of the largest entertainment properties ever created, and collectors have had decades to decide what their early cardboard means. The 50s, 60s and 70s have had their time to become vintage. I think the 90s are next. And the more time I spend digging through the decade, the more obvious the setup looks. The 1990s may have been the greatest decade for character IP ever. You had Mario and Zelda becoming global institutions. Sonic arrived. Pokémon arrived. Toy Story arrived. Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and South Park arrived. Final Fantasy VII changed what a videogame could look and feel like. Street Fighter became a cultural phenomenon. The Simpsons went from a new animated show to one of the defining franchises on television. Thirty years later, look at what survived. Mario is bigger than ever. Pokémon is Pokémon. Sonic is selling movie tickets. Zelda is still one of Nintendo's crown jewels. Resident Evil is still releasing major games. Final Fantasy VII is still important enough to support an entire blockbuster remake project. Toy Story is still being watched by children whose parents watched the original. The Simpsons and South Park apparently intend to outlive all of us. That's an extraordinary hit rate. And the cards were made at exactly the right time. The 90s landed just before collecting became industrialised. There was no mature grading economy. No population reports. No breakers opening cases for numbered parallels. No army of collectors immediately sleeving every card of a major character because it might be worth something in thirty years. A lot of this stuff was treated exactly as intended: as kids' stuff. Japanese vending cards came out of machines. Stickers got stuck to things. Magazine inserts were removed or thrown away with the magazine. Foils went into binders. Cards went into pockets, school bags and bedroom drawers. Nobody was carefully preserving a 1995 Toy Story foil because Woody might eventually need a rookie card. Nobody was thinking about the gem rate on a 1996 Bandai Final Fantasy VII prism. Nobody was buying Japanese Zelda cards and calculating future PSA populations. They were just cards. That gives the decade something modern collectibles can never manufacture after the fact: natural scarcity created before anyone thought scarcity mattered. Then there is the buyer. 1996 is thirty years ago, which feels rude but is useful. The kid who was ten when Pokémon arrived is 40. The teenager who played Final Fantasy VII in 1997 is now somewhere around 40, probably with a mortgage and the financial capacity to make significantly worse decisions on eBay. The generation that grew up with these characters is entering the same part of life where collectors before them started paying serious money to recover pieces of their childhood. Except the underlying franchises never really went away. That is what makes the 90s so interesting to me. The nostalgia is arriving at the same time as the IP is still commercially relevant. And Pokémon has already shown us how far this can go. Pokémon was born in 1996. Its earliest CoroCoro material now sits right at the beginning of one of the largest collectible franchises on earth. Then there is Pikachu Illustrator, created for CoroCoro contests in 1998. This year, the only PSA 10 sold for US$16.492 million. The most expensive trading card ever sold at auction. A 90s character card now sits above Mickey Mantle, Honus Wagner and every other piece of cardboard ever sold publicly at auction. So the idea that the 1990s are somehow too recent to produce serious grails is already dead. Pokémon got there first. I don't think it will be alone. We've spent the last few weeks digging through the rest of the decade and the depth is ridiculous. 1993 Sonic prisms. 1995 Toy Story. 1996 Final Fantasy VII Carddass. 1998 South Park. 1999 Ocarina of Time. Early Resident Evil. Tomb Raider. Street Fighter. The Simpsons. Different countries. Different formats. Different manufacturers. Vending cards, foils, prisms, stickers, lenticulars, magazine issues, cheap American wax. But the same broad setup keeps appearing: enormous IP, childhood-era cardboard and far less high-grade supply than you would expect from franchises this big. The Simpsons already feels like the market beginning to look backwards. Collectors are increasingly treating the 1990 Topps cards and stickers as first-year character material rather than some forgotten junk-wax non-sport set. Pokémon is already fully mature. The rest is earlier. That is why I keep coming back to the 90s. Earlier vintage has already had decades of attention. Batman collectors know the Batman card. Star Wars collectors know the Luke. Disney and comic collectors have spent generations establishing their important early pieces. Modern collectibles have the opposite problem. Everyone knows they're collectibles before the box is even opened. The good cards are identified immediately, sleeved immediately, graded immediately and often hoarded immediately. The 90s sit right between those two worlds. Old enough to have been genuinely used and lost. Recent enough to contain some of the largest IP still operating today. Thirty years of nostalgia. A huge generation of collectors moving into serious earning years. And cardboard produced before people realised they should be protecting it. You could almost design the perfect future vintage market around those conditions. Except we don't have to. It already happened. Batman had fifty-plus years for its cardboard to become canon. Star Wars has had nearly fifty. Pokémon has shown what can happen when a 90s property reaches the same level of collectible maturity. Now look at the class sitting behind it. Mario. Sonic. Link. Cloud. Tifa. Aerith. Resident Evil. Lara Croft. Woody and Buzz. The Simpsons. South Park. Street Fighter. Some of the most recognisable characters of the last thirty years, attached to cards produced before anyone had a reason to treat them like future financial assets. I think the market eventually does what it has always done with culturally important things. It looks backwards. It decides what mattered. Then it pays for the best surviving examples. The 50s had their turn. The 60s had their turn. The 70s are going absolutely ******* nuts right now. Pokémon has already broken the door down for the 90s. The rest of the decade is only a matter of time.

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  ShipGenius (@ShipGenius) reported 12 minutes ago

  4/ Card shops and eBay tables lose margin two ways: postage guesses and "it should be fine in an envelope" One is a rate problem. One is a product-arrives problem. Fix both.

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  SPLIT MANTRA (@Duckman_1337) reported 12 minutes ago

  @aeugh989 @DCOfficial @Disney That’s crazy to think about Unfortunately, eBay told me there wasn’’t any wrongdoing (prolly cause he took it down), so i can’t get justice for the other art hes got on there, but it at least motivated me to get print accounts going so i can avoid this

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  Transformer Fan 1986 (@TF_Fan_1986) reported 17 minutes ago

  @toypixx I paid way too much on eBay. Never had a problem with Jada until this last comic con.

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  0xJamesMadison_DFS (@badvalla40301) reported 18 minutes 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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  he/him charlotte york (@F0RTUNEFAV0URS) reported 21 minutes ago

  @scrungeonmaster levi’s 501s have not let me down🤞i think i got my first pair off ebay?

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  Ray Velez (@pascowebdesigns) reported 23 minutes ago

  @yeahfortommy I can potentially see anthro going down the ebay/yahoo side of history

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  ` (@grandesmonet) reported 24 minutes ago

  Oh brother…the cheapest signed petal CD on eBay is still $95…probably gonna have to wait til 2027 for that price to come down considerably lmao

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  Nekcro (@_Nekcro_) reported 25 minutes ago

  Glad I was awake to get my doom eagles hoodie this morning. You know damn well those mfers gonna end up on ebay listed for a down payment on a car in a month

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  N1ck1709 (@TraderN1ck) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Joshy_Pet @TheGameVerse License isn't an issue for me its more if wanna get a game which came out a few years ago the digital store still sells it at full price let's say £60 however can get the same game off amazon or ebay for over 50% off that's the issue being forced to pay full price and not having the option to buy an disc second hand

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  Thrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי (@ThrillScience) reported 33 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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  Vernaculist (@vernaculist) reported 36 minutes ago

  @ebay is a fraud ridden scam marketplace. I've had enough. Understand that eBay has zero incentive to correct fraud, they profit from it. This is a caution, intended for anyone that needs to be disabused of the notion that the eBay platform offers either party in a transaction security assurances. They don't. They will continue defrauding their users until it becomes unprofitable, and not before. Whether you intend to buy, or become a seller, you will be ripped off, finding out once it's too late that the promises, the commitments eBay claims to have toward being a safe and fair marketplace, are garbage. The check cleared, they got theirs, you lose. Stay away from eBay, if you value your sanity, and your wallet. It's a broken company run by dysfunctional, sick people. Avoid eBay at all cost.

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  Bid Sniper for eBay (@Myibidder) reported 37 minutes ago

  Try to resolve your issue with the seller directly before opening a case on eBay #MyibidderTips

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  Japan Football Shirts (@JLeagueShirts) reported 37 minutes ago

  @efjerseys Thx. LONG ago eBay closed my account for something that I was not actually advised of (not shirts at that time). Then apologised that they'd made an error but I needed to start my 2000+ listings again from scratch. Now, they let EVERYTHING go for their profits!

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  Big Josh (@bziddy) reported 42 minutes ago

  After searching for a $2 card I sold for 10 minutes, I'm about to pull down my ebay store an relist everything with a better organization system. Something similar to what @allset24 has shown.

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  Sports Card Radio (@SportsCardRadio) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SBCards25 I would go one seller at a time. Look at each step as its own isolated process. Just like a science experiment, each step has to be done in isolation before moving to the next step. So it can be: Find listings from DCSports for "Ken Griffey, Mike Trout, PSA 9 or above" Provide that link, since that never changes. Return results to DB Then find the listings on Probstein, returns to DB. Then from the DB it renders the decision how much to bid Then outputs that to snipe tool Then directs snipe tool for bidding Claude is going to be slow, and in some ways that's good. If it's a logged in browser request, eBay will bot detect it pretty quick, so you actually want it navigating somewhat methodically.

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  OrderAmidChaos (@HumorOverSorrow) reported 46 minutes ago

  @hayasaka_aryan HBO used to be a must sub. But they haven't had a mega hit show since Game of Thrones and even that finished its run by going down in flames during last 2 seasons. Rare gems like the Knight of 7 Kingdoms are few and far between and I gave up on House of the Dragon after one season due to complete lack of sympathetic characters as virtually all characters on that show are trash you want to see fail in the worst possible way. Other day I realized that I was maintaining a sub just to access my favs like Rome, The Wire, Deadwood, Oz, Band of Brothers, etc. So, I bought them on DVD's from Ebay and cut the sub. All of my fav shows were far cheaper than continuing to support this slop.

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  Miguel 'Mike' Denyer (@Capwild) reported 47 minutes ago

  Every ******* time. I swear Facebook Marketplace needs a special button somewhere between "Message Seller" and "Is This Available?" that simply says: "This has absolutely ****-all to do with me, so I'll keep scrolling." Apparently, however, that level of self-control remains beyond a surprisingly large percentage of the population. I'm currently selling several tactical backpacks, operator attachés and patrol bags. They are brand new, most are still in the original packaging with the tags attached, and I'm selling them for less than their normal retail price. Some of them I originally acquired through BOGO promotions. Others I bought individually. Enter Fucknuts McGinty, Marketplace Economic Correspondent and apparently self-appointed Guardian of Other People's Transactions: "You can get two of them for that price from their website." First of all... No, you ******* can't. The price I'm asking is about $40 LESS than what you'd currently pay for the equivalent purchase. But even if you could, allow me to introduce you to a revolutionary concept apparently absent from whatever remedial economics course you attended: A BOGO promotion does not mean the second item has no value. It means I bought one item at full retail price and received another item as part of the transaction. Now I own both. They're mine. I can keep them. I can give one to a friend. I can donate one to charity. I can fill one with ******* jellybeans and bury it in the garden as a time capsule. Or... And stay with me here because this is where **** gets complicated... I can sell it. What I paid for an item has absolutely ****-all to do with what that item is worth to somebody else. If I buy something for $100 and the store gives me another one as part of a promotion, that does not magically require me to give the second one away. I'm offering someone the opportunity to buy a brand-new item for less than the normal retail price without having to spend the additional money required to qualify for whatever promotion happened to exist when I bought it. Buyer saves money. I recover some money. Everybody involved in the transaction benefits. Nobody is being deceived. Nobody is being ripped off. No laws are being broken. Capitalism continues functioning. The Earth remains in orbit. Civilization somehow survives another ******* day. Which brings me to the part I genuinely don't understand: Why ******** do some people feel compelled to complain about transactions they have absolutely no intention of participating in? Don't like my price? Don't buy it. Think you've found it cheaper somewhere else? Buy it there. Already own seventeen of the ******* things? Congratulations. Keep scrolling. There are literally thousands of other Marketplace listings available for you to look at. Yet somehow there is always that one miserable bastard who apparently cannot make it through his day without finding SOMETHING, somewhere, involving complete strangers, that he can ***** and whine about. The truly remarkable part is that my selling this bag has precisely ZERO effect on his life. I didn't knock on his door. I didn't empty his bank account. I didn't hold his dog hostage until he bought a tactical backpack. I posted an item for sale. That's it. Somebody wants it at my asking price, they buy it. Somebody doesn't want it at my asking price, they don't. This incredibly sophisticated economic system has successfully operated at yard sales, flea markets, gun shows, classified ads, eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace for ******* decades. Yet apparently we're still struggling with: "If you don't want the ******* thing, don't buy the ******* thing." There. I've just condensed several centuries of free-market economics into twelve words. You're ******* welcome.

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  Vernaculist (@vernaculist) reported 53 minutes ago

  @PaulBambiBurns @eBay_UK @ebay IS the fraud. Do NOT sell on eBay. It's a cesspool run by terrible people.

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  Dylan (@DPacques) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ryzerth I found an ASR 1001 on eBay for €50, listed as "not working"; actually, it works just fine. It's just slightly bent in one spot, but other than that, everything's fine :)

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  TYRED (@TYRED79722907) reported 56 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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  CrazyRuckusN64 (@CrazyRuckusN64) reported 57 minutes ago

  @OrdinaryGamers facts and even though nintendo took down 400 switch 1 emulator repositories more will be made since, its still easy to find launch model switches on ebay and some modchipped ones.

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  Terry Shadley (@TheTerryShadley) reported 57 minutes ago

  @tresamigos858 I had one of my PCs i put up on eBay last week and then about an hour later I rushed and took it down. lol.

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  SotMons (@sotmons13th) reported 59 minutes ago

  @mitWorte Get onto ebay and find a broken one for parts or a replacement door. Never know your luck