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 (51%)
• Sign in (30%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Preston	Website Down	3 hours ago
Southwark	Website Down	7 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	9 hours ago
Soissons	Sign in	15 hours ago
Leipzig	Website Down	16 hours ago
Gottmadingen	Sign in	16 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Eph (@CustomEph) reported 1 minute ago

  @FurgalTheFluff You can report them for selling something they dont have in hand and ebay takes them down almost instantly BTW

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  Scott (@daylightScott) reported 1 minute ago

  @pitdesi @tbpn @AnjneyMidha I am a case study and Anjney is correct in his analysis. The 1 million users isn't new to brand or first time customers per se. Marketing does not = advertising. Marketing could be: discounts, ads, influencers, or something else. I purchase on ebay maybe once every 5-8 years. Want to know my most recent purchase? It was only because I was given a $50 coupon that I did it and bought TCG Magic cards that basically lowered the price down the the MSRP. If I don't get that, then I don't make a purchase with them, and I wont again. However, I am not the ideal customer profile for ebay. They are spending meaningless dollars on customers who will generate little to no lifetime value (LTV look it up) You know how much money Ryan Cohen currently spends on marketing costs with GME? Zilch (or very very little) All that to say, the people who are going to use ebay, are going to use it. No sense in wasting marketing $ to set cash on fire.

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  Baloney’s Back (@BaloneyBack) reported 1 minute ago

  @GMB If the government cracked down on fraud (Rishi Sunaks wife and furlough, Michelle Mone , Anthony Bamford (jcb) Alastair Chambers defrauding the council or if eBay Tescos, Amazon paid their taxes we all would have more money in our pockets instead of being in theirs

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  HoHoKusTom (@HoHoKusTom1) reported 12 minutes ago

  @chrisjo62638834 @SMB_Attorney you, like sorkin and quick are choosing to ignore or are ignorant of how M&A works. I didn't offer an opinion on whether the deal made sense, would be acceptable to Ebay board/shareholders, but he did answer question, repeatedly. issue shares evaluate on post merger basis.

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  Peter Martin Pedersen (@DreamcatcherDK) reported 14 minutes ago

  @2000STOCKMASTER @CGasparino They Shorting Ebay Now... PRice going down man....

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  0xAndy.Base (@Andy_chiky) reported 14 minutes ago

  If GameStop wants eBay for “store credit vibes,” the real question is margins after they replatform everything. Auction marketplaces run on trust + uptime, not just hype. If they can’t keep fees competitive and shipping/returns painless, the deal becomes a slow bleed.

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  Casino Capitalism (@HDogetagonist) reported 14 minutes ago

  @VHSDVDBLURAY4K i mean he said they would have to issue new shares, everyone sorta ignoring thag part, he just doesnt want to say he has to issue like 260% more shares and is doing a reverse takeover LBO where ebay willmown like 78% of GME shares

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  BrotherDucks (@ducksareinarow) reported 16 minutes ago

  The cost cuts aren’t the real story. eBay has a structural problem money can’t fix: trust. Cards, watches, sneakers, refurbished tech — every category that should belong to them has been bleeding share to StockX, Goldin, even Amazon. eBay’s authentication has been a band-aid over a wound. The reason? eBay has no physical footprint. GameStop has 1,600 stores. Walk into any GameStop today and staff are already grading Pokémon cards, Magic cards, retro hardware, used consoles. The infrastructure for in-person verification — the exact thing eBay has been desperately outsourcing — already exists. Bolt that onto the world’s largest collectibles marketplace and you have something Amazon can’t replicate without billions in capex and years of build. Live commerce studios. Card grading hubs. Refurbished tech intake. Local fulfillment nodes. None of these are theoretical — they’re happening at GameStop today, just at smaller scale. The real estate is paid for. The labor is on payroll. eBay supplies distribution; GameStop monetizes square footage at margins it could never get selling video games. This is the part of the deck the bears are skipping.

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  PlayKami (@PlayKamiApp) reported 16 minutes ago

  GameStop's bid for @eBay summarised The deal • @gamestop is offering $125 per share for eBay, which is a big 46% premium over eBay's recent stock price • Half the payment would be in cash and half in GameStop shares • This values eBay at about $55.5 billion • Not a done deal yet, but GameStop already owns about 5% of eBay through stocks and derivatives. They're filing official notices tomorrow How GameStop Plans to Pay For It • They already have ~$9.4 billion in cash and investments • A major bank (TD Securities) gave them a "highly confident" letter for $20 billion more. The rest comes from issuing new GameStop shares The Big Money-Saving Plan • GameStop believes they can cut $2 billion in costs per year pretty quickly by trimming eBay's spending on marketing, product development, and admin. For context, eBay spent $2.4 billion on marketing last year but only added 1 million new buyers • If successful, this would boost earnings significantly in the first year The strategic story • Turn their 1,600 physical stores into hubs for authenticating items, taking in products, shipping, and even live selling/streaming • Double down on trading cards (Pokemon, One Piece, Sports), collectibles, and refurbished tech - categories where GameStop already has expertise • @ryancohen (CEO) would become CEO of the combined company What This Means for Collectibles and TCGs GameStop's stores could become convenient places for people to bring in cards, sneakers, comics, or memorabilia for authentication and selling on eBay - making it easier and safer for average collectors to buy and sell The focus on live commerce and physical fulfillment may also boost visibility hobby (that is ever growing), potentially driving higher prices and more volume in trading cards TLDR: position collectibles as mainstream, accessible retail assets instead of just online-only, which could attract new buyers and increase liquidity across the entire space.

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  dilley capital (@MoneyPrinter) reported 20 minutes ago

  this is the clip Ryan Cohen was referencing in the @tbpn interview about the Montblanc pen EVERYONE needs to watch this 👇🏻 now i’m going to speak from my own perspective as someone who sell luxury used goods on eBay, how this would change everything selling luxury used goods on ebay is great but there’s so much that can be improved upon and it mainly stems from authentication issues and trust. when you sell something on there like a Louis Vuitton handbag authentication issues offered either for a fee or for free depending on if it meets a dollar amount threshold at time of sale, that’s not the problem— the problem with this is time, the seller first has to send the time to ebay after sale to have the item authenticated (which takes forever), then the item is shipped to the customer. this time deters a majority of potential sales because people want to know what they’re buying is real. this is why we have seen reputable luxury consignment businesses scaling over the last few years bc they can offer a faster turnaround time to the customer but that comes at a heavy cost to the seller usually 25-40% 😵‍💫 having the ability to do in-store authentication will not only fix that timing issue on the front end but would also drastically improve ebay’s trust issue with the consumer we know people love ebay, we know consignment services for luxury used goods is scaling, if Ryan can fix ebay’s trust issue with the consumer and create a way for sellers to sell items faster this will generate sales like ebay has never seen. this is the part of my tedtalk where i remind you that used goods sales are skyrocketing. given the current state of the world and macro economic tailwinds people are buying and selling more as way to weather the storm. gamestop at times is kinda like a **** shop offering in store credit sure but most people don’t realize they offer CASH for items on the spot. idk if that would play into ryan’s plan down the road to expand offering cash instantly for trade ins on goods besides retro gaming and collectibles but this could be another very very very lucrative piece to his vision most people are completely missing. LONG $GME LONG $EBAY LONG @ryancohen

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  Duty to Re₿el (@DutyToRebel) reported 22 minutes ago

  @LukeDashjr I found a 4TB Crucial SSD for $230 this morning on eBay but I get your point. As far as the CPU it's nothing some new paste can't fix!

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  Temfrna (@temfr13) reported 25 minutes ago

  @grok @JesseTinsley cmon bro, you could have said it up front. I am going to break this down let me know if this is right: I own 1 share of ebay which is being priced at 125. I will be given 62.5 in cash and 62.5 in GME stock we determine GME share price is 31.25, I need to be paid 62.5 in gme shares so I get 62.5/31.25 = 2 newly issued gme shares. right?

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  Coully🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Coullio82) reported 26 minutes ago

  @richthejoiner I got my f800gs on ebay ..no issues...

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  Manuel Milliery (@mamilliery) reported 28 minutes ago

  Everyone is laughing at Ryan Cohen's math. They shouldn't be. He just proved he understands the market better than anyone on Wall Street. January 2021: A Reddit user called DeepF*ckingValue posts a $53,000 GameStop position. The math says the stock is worth $4. It goes to $483 in two weeks. Melvin Capital, a hedge fund that bet on math, loses everything. Robinhood shuts down the buy button. Congress holds hearings. The system breaks. Nobody fixes it. 2026: Ryan Cohen, who became GameStop's CEO after walking into that rubble, offers $56 billion to buy eBay. His company is worth $11 billion. eBay is worth $46 billion. On CNBC, the host, Sorkin, asks where the money comes from. Cohen says "half cash, half stock." Sorkin says the math doesn't work. Cohen says he doesn't understand the question. The whole sequence becomes a meme, an icon of finance TV right away. 1999: AOL buys Time Warner for $164 billion. Steve Case calls it "the most important deal in history." It destroys both companies within two years. The man who got lucky once always starts believing luck is a business model. What is true is that in the attention economy, a good story beats a good balance sheet. Cohen knows this.

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  da P.A (@daPa2009) reported 28 minutes ago

  @xMarketNews Its a nonconventional deal. However, Ebay has no prospects, its a slow dying company. Mgt has done nothing to make it a leading player. At this point Ebay is lucky to have this deal. #ebay #gme

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  Michael Urwin (@Michael_Urwin) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Dexerto The worst part is that people are buying them off eBay. If people stopped buying from scalpers this problem would get better. Valve is going to ship more, stop buying from scalpers.

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  Ruisu (@RuisuKurusu) reported 30 minutes ago

  scalpers took them all Go check eBay it's terrible

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  Compound248 💰 (@compound248) reported 33 minutes ago

  @randomlybrian @andrewrsorkin No. And nobody is “buying” these new shares; the proposal is literally the thing you said it is not: eBay would be accepting the new GME shares in exchange for existing EBAY shares plus a $60 one time dividend (per EBAY share). GameStop is proposing to take its $9 billion of cash and pay it to eBay (as well as cover some deal costs). AFTER the cash is distributed, GameStop will issues new GME shares in exchange for existing EBAY shares. So it’s not a hypothetical “ex cash;” the cash would actually be gone and then new shares will be issued. Today, GameStop’s cash is worth nearly $20 of the $24 share price ($9 billion of cash on an $11 billion market cap). Think of it this way: if GameStop instead paid the $20/share as a one time distribution to GME shareholders, you’d now have a $4 stock and you’d have $20 of cash in your pocket. In the eBay instance, GameStop is paying the $20 to someone else’s shareholders (eBay), but the stock price result is the same: GME would be worth $4 or 5 post distribution. Those $5 shares are the shares GME will then issue to EBAY shareholders. For $28 billion, that’s ~5.6 billion new shares.

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  bad robot (@foxenflask) reported 34 minutes ago

  Getting a lot of questions and requests on breaking down the $GME x $EBAY transaction in clearer detail. So here is an attempt. "Rolling equity" means that instead of cashing out their eBay shares for money, eBay shareholders convert (roll) their existing ownership into shares of the new combined company (ComboCo = eBay + GameStop merged entity). Here's the practical breakdown: RC is not buying 100% of eBay outright, since that would require paying the full ~$56B market cap in cash, which he can't do. Instead, he pays $28B in cash to eBay shareholders who want to exit (the 50% cash consideration at $125/share). The other 50% of eBay shareholders don't get paid out - instead, they simply keep an ownership stake, but now their stake is in the new combined GME + eBay entity rather than standalone eBay. Why would eBay shareholders agree to this? RC's pitch is that the combined entity will be worth more than standalone eBay because: He'll cut $2.5B+ in operating costs, dramatically increasing earnings. GME's capital and "owner mentality" management creates upside. He will increase earnings separate from that with growth initiatives, like live-shopping and new combined infrastructure for boosting collectibles even further. The key distinction and thing confusing people is that this is not a full buyout, it's a partial cash tender + equity merger. eBay shareholders who roll equity become co-owners of the combined company alongside GME shareholders, just at a reduced percentage (60% vs the 80% they'd have in a pure stock-for-stock deal). The "roll" is essentially the mechanism that makes the deal financeable - RC only needs to fund the cash half, not the entire acquisition. Hope this makes sense.

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  Glitch Truth (@glitchtruth) reported 34 minutes ago

  GameStop just offered $56 billion for eBay. eBay's market cap is around $30 billion. GameStop's is roughly $10 billion. The offer is bigger than the buyer. GameStop would need to issue massive new stock or raise bond debt the company has never run. eBay's board would have to accept GME paper at a valuation the open market won't underwrite. Real takeover bids come with committed financing. This one doesn't. This is the Ryan Cohen press-release playbook. He ran it at Bed Bath & Beyond. Pump the headline, run the float, exit. BBBY filed Chapter 11 in 2023. If you're holding GME calls into a "merger pop," you're paying premium for theater. If you're long the stock, management just told you the next 12 months: announcements, not earnings. The deal isn't the point. The volatility is.

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  Obi Cal (@terraformedmind) reported 35 minutes ago

  @OldManBlackSock @GregIsKitty @ryancohen This is correct, the cash payout brings down the equity portion of eBay holders.

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  Emil Hartela (@emilhartela) reported 40 minutes ago

  Been going down a rabbit hole on $SMWB job postings ahead of May 13 earnings. Found something worth flagging. Most SimilarWeb job descriptions use the same standard customer wording. "Google; eBay; and Adidas." It shows up consistently across postings. This one reads differently. "Our unique data and solutions empower over 5,700 customers globally; including industry giants like Google; Meta; and OpenAI" Meta and OpenAI replacing eBay and Adidas as the named reference customers. Companies do not swap out their reference customers accidentally. These choices are deliberate signals about who they are working with and who they want to attract talent to serve. If accurate this would mean OpenAI is an active paying SimilarWeb customer. Not a prospect. Not a conversation. A named reference customer used to recruit talent publicly. This sits alongside what we already know. The Data for AI team working directly with foundational model companies. Two large LLM contracts pending. AI revenue up 3x in 2025 representing 11% of Q4 revenue. And the Senior Post-Merger Integration Manager role that appeared this week with pre-signing strategy language. I could be reading too much into a job posting. But the pattern keeps building. Earnings May 13. Before market open. $SMWB

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  Jim Osman (@EdgeCGroup) reported 43 minutes ago

  GameStop’s eBay Bid Is Really A Test Of Ryan Cohen’s Currency The headline is easy. GameStop wants to buy eBay for $125 a share. The math roughly works. That is not the story. The real story is whether GameStop stock is strong enough to be used as money. That is what most people miss in deals like this. They look at the premium. They look at the cash. They look at the press release. Then they decide whether the number is big enough. But in stock deals, price is only one part of the offer. The other part is trust. GameStop is effectively asking eBay shareholders to take a large portion of their consideration in GME shares. That means they are not just selling eBay. They are buying into Ryan Cohen, GameStop’s balance sheet, its volatility, its shareholder base, and its future capital allocation. That is a very different decision. Cash ends the conversation. Stock extends it. If eBay shareholders take GameStop stock, they are saying they believe the buyer’s currency will hold value after the deal is announced, after the dilution is understood, after the debt is added, after the synergies are tested, and after the market stops reacting to the headline. That is the real hurdle. GameStop has something most struggling retailers do not have. It has cash. It has attention. It has a shareholder base that has repeatedly allowed the company to raise capital on terms most retailers could only dream of. Ryan Cohen has also earned a reputation for cost discipline and refusing to play the old Wall Street game. But eBay is not a small bolt-on acquisition. It is a large, profitable marketplace. If GameStop wants to buy it, the question is not simply whether $125 is a fair price. The question is whether eBay shareholders want to own the combined story. That is why this bid is so fascinating. It is not really a test of arithmetic. It is a test of credibility. Can GameStop convert meme-era equity value into permanent corporate power? Can Ryan Cohen turn a volatile stock into acquisition currency? Can a company the market once treated as a joke use that same market value to buy a real marketplace asset? That is the part investors should be watching. Because the bid itself is only the surface. The deeper question is whether GameStop’s stock is still just a symbol of shareholder rebellion, or whether it has become something more useful: a balance sheet weapon. In M&A, the strongest currency is not always the stock with the highest price. It is the stock the seller believes will still be valuable tomorrow. That is the issue here. $GME $EBAY

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  ItsMeCooper (@ItsaMeCooper) reported 44 minutes ago

  @CluelessCardGuy have only good experiences tbh. eBay protection works really well in case of issues. Always check seller reviews, previous sold items, etc. before making any purchase. Reviews are everything and give you an enhanced peace of mind. I’m a seller on eBay too, and reviews matter a lot imo.

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  Brian Dean, MSF (@randomlybrian) reported 44 minutes ago

  @compound248 @andrewrsorkin Why would new shares be issued “ex cash” …? Let me ask this way, what investor, institutional or otherwise, would buy shares from a company “excluding cash.” Think of all the companies that issue shares every quarter. To your question of “how would eBay allow this,” eBay is not buying these newly issued shares. Outside investors are. If GameStop was conjuring up 1B new shares and offering those directly to EBay, your argument is valid. But they are not. Those shares are being sold to outside investors. GameStop receives cash. Then pays that cash to eBay. Those outside investors will pay $20-25 per share. Not some “ex cash” price.

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  E flat (@Foxjuly1Foxjuly) reported 46 minutes ago

  @eBay @AskeBay eBay should fix this logic bug a long time ago or at least remind the seller in the return process or in the guidelines. But unfortunately I see none of these. I can’t believe eBay is an Icon in e-commerce and a Nasdaq listed company. Terrible experience!!

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  Casino Capitalism (@HDogetagonist) reported 49 minutes ago

  @drainedballsjr @junkbondanalyst they would need to issue 260% more shares and effectively make ebay the majorityy stakeholder of gme shares and dilute everyone else down to like 28%

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 50 minutes ago

  @DefiniteVirus GameStop is the acquirer (surviving entity), and eBay is the target. The deal structure involves GameStop issuing a large number of new GME shares (for the stock portion of the $125/share consideration to eBay holders) plus cash/debt financing. The warrants are preserved and continue to function — They do not disappear or get cancelled. Per the Warrant Agreement's "Share Exchange Event" and anti-dilution provisions, they remain exercisable into shares of the post-merger GameStop (now owning eBay). In a merger where the issuer (GME) survives, this is the standard outcome: warrant holders keep their rights to buy GME stock at the $32 strike. Dilution is the big impact — GameStop will issue hundreds of millions of new shares to eBay shareholders (roughly 2+ GME shares per eBay share, depending on the final exchange ratio and elections). This significantly increases GME's share count, diluting the value of existing GME shares and the warrants. The $32 strike stays the same, but each warrant effectively becomes a claim on a smaller slice of the (hopefully larger) combined company. Possible minor adjustments — The agreement has protections for stock splits, dividends, spinoffs, rights offerings, etc. Large M&A-related share issuances typically do not trigger broad price/exercise adjustments unless they fall under specific "fundamental transaction" triggers. The warrants would be adjusted to reference the "property" (cash + GME stock) that GME shareholders receive in any restructuring, but since GME is buying (not being bought), the main effect is dilution rather than a full conversion/replacement. Bottom line for warrant holders: Your warrants survive the deal unchanged in structure and expiration, but their economic value will depend heavily on whether the combined GME + eBay business creates enough synergies/value (e.g., Ryan Cohen's stated goal of turning eBay into a stronger Amazon competitor using GameStop's stores for fulfillment/authentication) to offset the massive dilution. If the stock price stays low post-deal, these $32-strike warrants could still expire worthless even if the deal closes. The deal is currently non-binding and unsolicited (eBay's board is reviewing it; Cohen has threatened a proxy fight if rejected). If it falls apart or changes structure (e.g., becomes a reverse merger or something unusual), the outcome could differ—but under the proposed terms, this is the expected treatment. Always check the final merger agreement and any SEC filings for precise details once a deal is definitive. This is from Grok, not legal advice.

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  Kaznius (@kaznius) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Mrplaystation73 @ZikadaPrime They tried to sell them at $700. But everyone I knew was able to get a console with no issue. Even on Twitter I don’t think I saw any post of anyone complaining about scalpers. Do you still have an eBay picture?

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  lakes1234 (@lakes12341) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ryancohen I'm sure you have greater plans, but, using your stores to transact high-value (or mid-value) ebay sales as a place that verifies the product in the photos is sold, and returned if the buyer wants, would fix a lot of problems with ebay.