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	Errors	3 hours ago
London	Sign in	4 hours ago
Cardiff	Website Down	4 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	8 hours ago
Southwark	Sign in	13 hours ago
Stoke-on-Trent	Sign in	14 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Steward (@wolfybbad) reported 1 minute ago

  @Sacb0y @eBay I mean they are the most successful GPU brand on earth so I think its safe to say plenty of people care regardless of the fact of scalpers. Again its not a problem for the producers of products only consumers. If you dont like scalpers dont buy from them.

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  Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) reported 4 minutes ago

  @john_hersc79276 If you issue shares for stuff (evays assets) in return them the value goes up by the value of ebay (minus the debt you take to acquire) They don't have to value gamestop at 30bn. They have to value ebay at 55bn when it becomes part of gamestop.

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  alpha5tate 🇺🇸 (@alpha5tate) reported 5 minutes ago

  eBay is currently operating under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice (DOJ) stemming from its cyberstalking case. This situation could have direct implications for $GME, and RC may be able to use it as leverage. In 2019, senior eBay executives and employees (in the Security & Global Resiliency team, plus communications) launched a harassment and intimidation campaign against Ina and David Steiner, who ran EcommerceBytes, a news site critical of eBay. Key triggers included articles about eBay's leadership, executive compensation, and a company pub project ("Walker's West"). Executives used aggressive language internally (e.g., "crush this lady," "take her down," "make an example out of someone"). eBay admitted responsibility for the acts of its officers, directors, employees, and agents. Seven former employees (including security director Jim Baugh) pleaded guilty to related felony charges and received prison sentences (up to 57 months). The DPA (Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, running through ~early 2027 and including a successor-binding clause) isn’t just a compliance headache — it can be turned into a strategic asset that aligns with Ryan Cohen’s critique of eBay’s bloated, poorly governed operations and his $2B cost-cut / EPS-uplift plan. A Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) is a legal settlement where eBay admitted to criminal conduct (related to a 2019 corporate cyberstalking/harassment campaign and obstruction of justice), paid a $3 million penalty, and avoided full prosecution in exchange for ongoing obligations. These include retaining an independent compliance monitor for three years, enhancing its compliance program, and cooperating with authorities. The agreement binds successors, meaning a buyer like GameStop would inherit these requirements. So how can this DPA potentially be leveraged by GME/RC? Pre-Acquisition (Bidding Phase) • Negotiation leverage: Cite monitor costs + integration restrictions to push for a lower price, better terms, or regulatory outs. • Superior due diligence: Access monitor reports for free, in-depth validation of exactly the governance/cultural problems RC has called out (overpaid execs, no skin in the game, weak controls). • Public narrative: Frame the bid as “finishing the DOJ’s reform work” to pressure eBay’s board and rally shareholders. During Acquisition (Closing & Integration) • Structured handoff: Proactively work with DOJ on the required 30-day notice for goodwill and smoother approvals. • Ready-made integration playbook: Map RC’s cost cuts directly onto DPA-mandated compliance enhancements (expense controls, ethics, investigations). • Financing edge: Monitor oversight can de-risk the deal for lenders. Post-Acquisition (Combined Company) • Cover for aggressive reforms: Use the independent monitor’s certification to justify executive pay cuts, overhead slashing, and cultural reset — framed as strengthening (not weakening) compliance. • Risk reduction & moat: Inherited program lowers future legal exposure and can be marketed as superior governance. • Value creation accelerator: Provides external validation and documentation to support rapid EPS gains while embedding lasting discipline. The DPA is a temporary “straitjacket” that RC can wear as armor. It forces the very governance and operational discipline he’s criticized eBay for lacking, while giving him external cover, deeper visibility, and a compelling turnaround narrative. It doesn’t eliminate risks (added costs, monitor friction, DOJ veto power on major changes), but in a deal this size, it can be reframed from hurdle to hidden asset—especially if the goal is long-term value creation over quick flips. Any real strategy would involve specialized M&A/DOJ counsel.

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  Shadow (@CyberSvnx) reported 8 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Me too, i got my account suspended due to "suspicious activities" right after i confirmed my bank account. Worst part, i been trying to appeal it and all i get is an AI response, the same response over and over again. I can't even chat with a human. Fix your sh¡t @eBay

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  🦋Number1twice 🦋 (@NumberWonTwice) reported 8 minutes ago

  @JesseTinsley Does RC have any leverage with shareholders taking the 5% options position? Can he put pressure on shareholders to put it to a vote and bypass the board? I think the NYSE attempted to purchase eBay, and shareholders shot it down.

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  BrotherDucks (@ducksareinarow) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ryancohen take down $RBA with @eBay

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  whGaming (@ePesapane) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Jackeljay95 @ryancohen Yeah had this issue also, was a third party delivery of some kind?, all they did was spam me with the same tracking details when I asked for further info. Same hyperlink like 3x eBay didn’t do anything about the dispute. 15$ was easier to just let it go but yeah :(

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  TraderGirlQ (@TraderGirlQ) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ryancohen @eBay That happens to me too, fix it please

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  James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) reported 11 minutes ago

  @marketswithmay Be serious. Which company's shareholders are going to end up owning most of the new company? The deal requires eBay shareholders to exchange their valuable shares for the paper-value GME shares Cohen has to issue in order to finance the deal. That's not GME buying eBay - it's the other way around.

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  Purps (@Purps911) reported 14 minutes ago

  @eBay @WPG92657 2 Billions spent, cant fix your main account out of office.

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  don’t care didn’t ask ⚢ (@mallowfruit) reported 14 minutes ago

  @tmtfc206 @DRA6ONITE Why do you think people are able to scalp? Because people will always buy and have too much FOMO. The buyers are just as much the problem. We’re not talking about 10-20 dollar difference. 39 dollar ETB’s are being put on eBay and sold for 800-2000 dollars.

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  Spence ☕️ (@tspencer322) reported 15 minutes ago

  Cohen has $9.8 billion in cash and $20 billion backed up by TD and a letter of approval. If the @eBay board of Directors denies his buyout offer it could cost the eBay shareholders $30-$40 per share, seeing that eBay may go back down into the 30 to 70 ranges.

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  EPG-Every Platform Gamer (@EPG_Gaming_247) reported 15 minutes ago

  @mikeklubnika Jesus this is getting out of control. eBay needs to ban these sick rats too. ANYONE who buys from scalpers at higher than RRP.. YOU are part of the problem! and a total moron..

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  The Traders Circle (@XTradersCircle) reported 16 minutes ago

  GameStop just attempted something almost nobody thought possible. $GME ($14B) tried to buy $EBAY ($50B+). Let that sink in. Ryan Cohen is essentially betting he can turn GameStop from a dying retailer into the backbone of online resale commerce. The pitch: • cut $2B+ in costs
• turn GameStop stores into eBay fulfillment hubs
• merge gaming, collectibles, and resale into one ecosystem On paper? It sounds insane. But that’s exactly why the market is paying attention. Because if Cohen somehow pulls this off… It completely changes the future of GameStop. The problem: •financing would be brutal •regulators would swarm it •eBay shareholders may laugh it out of the room •execution risk is enormous Which makes the REAL story this: Was this ever meant to succeed… Or was it designed to pressure eBay into changing direction?

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  G (@iamgstv) reported 16 minutes ago

  @kevg1412 I’d buy them only if you deleverage and buy $5k in common stock @ryancohen w proof - I guess the shipping might be an issue with @eBay tho 🥲

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  Joy (@MamaApe77) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ryancohen @eBay @ryancohen Have they resolved your issue yet?

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  AquaVis (@AquaVisX) reported 23 minutes ago

  @ryancohen - ebay likely looks ~similar. Just a 'racket' - enriching the minority at the top, destroying value all the way down. It's a fractal that stems from the foundation of the System. To fix it, the System must be fixed from the root - not just papering over symptoms.

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  Twisha (@sajla20) reported 27 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK @nicpicot @eBay I’ve been a long term eBay buyer. I addressed a problem recently. I did not receive my order. It’s obvious there was no evidence of delivery. I contacted eBay for a refund. My request was denied. No buyer’s protection was mentioned. I am very disappointed and discouraged to buy.

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  The Traders Circle (@XTradersCircle) reported 27 minutes ago

  GameStop Wants to Buy eBay… But There’s One Huge Problem $GME ($14B) tried to buy $EBAY ($50B+). Let that sink in. Ryan Cohen is essentially betting he can turn GameStop from a dying retailer into the backbone of online resale commerce. The pitch: • cut $2B+ in costs
• turn GameStop stores into eBay fulfillment hubs
• merge gaming, collectibles, and resale into one ecosystem On paper? It sounds insane. But that’s exactly why the market is paying attention. Because if Cohen somehow pulls this off…It completely changes the future of GameStop. The problem: •financing would be brutal •regulators would swarm it •eBay shareholders may laugh it out of the room •execution risk is enormous Which makes the REAL story this: Was this ever meant to succeed… Or was it designed to pressure eBay into changing direction?

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  Spence ☕️ (@tspencer322) reported 30 minutes ago

  Now we known why @gamestop did a “Trade in Anything Day”!!! They were testing their ability to receive products that may have been bought on eBay in the future and returned to a GameStop location due to an issue or shipping. @ryancohen has been building the logistics network. He needs to run eBay from his home through the GameStop locations in each state. If the eBay deal goes through GameStop is ready to implement the new plans and procedures needed to not only costs for eBay significantly but increased revenue stream due to ease of use of the system for its users. $GME

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  Grok (@grok) reported 31 minutes ago

  @QDailey @InternetH0F It's a non-binding, unsolicited offer from GameStop valuing eBay at ~$55-56B (50/50 cash/stock). Cohen has ~$9B cash + $20B financing commitment lined up and is willing to issue more stock or go hostile to shareholders. Realistic chance? Low right now—eBay's board is reviewing and likely to reject or counter. Market's skeptical on valuation and execution, but Cohen's track record keeps the door cracked. We'll see how it plays out.

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  Saksham Kaushik (@sakshamkauzhik) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ryancohen "eBay really said 'this guy is too based for our community' Suspending the one guy who's actually trying to fix your dying platform by buying it and turning it around. Free Ryan Cohen. Time to acquire and clean house @eBay "

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  King X (@KingX_Edgy) reported 36 minutes ago

  @KobeissiLetter eBay shut down an acquisition that would have saved GameStop. GameStop's CEO got banned from eBay. Neither company is better for it. This is the Spirit Airlines story again. Governance tries to prevent something and creates the opposite outcome. Structure always wins.

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  BrotherDucks (@ducksareinarow) reported 37 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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  bad robot (@foxenflask) reported 40 minutes ago

  @diamondape69 Looked into this a little more, and know more now. The structure is 50/50 cash and stock, with full shareholder "election rights and pro-rata allocation" if "oversubscribed". Here is exactly how that works: Each eBay shareholder can choose their preference - all cash, all stock, or anything in between. However, the aggregate deal must settle at exactly 50% cash and 50% GME stock across the entire shareholder base. If too many shareholders elect cash (which is typical in most deals since investors generally prefer certainty), those elections get pro-rated back down proportionately until the 50/50 split is maintained. So in practice, a shareholder who elects 100% cash will likely receive less than 100% cash and will be allocated some GME stock to balance the pool. The election is a preference, not a guarantee.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 49 minutes ago

  @GregIsKitty As M&A analyst: Per the proposal docs (50/50 cash/stock structure, $56B total at $125/eBay share), stock portion = $28B. GME shares outstanding ~448.4M. For existing shareholders to own exactly 40% post-merger: issue ~672.6M new shares. Required GME price = $28B / 672.6M ≈ $41.63/share. Warrants (59M $32 strike): If exercised above $32, they add ~$1.9B cash + minor dilution. Base calc assumes no exercise. Ryan's 60/40 framing implies confidence GME reaches ~$40+ by close.

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  Dollaruse (@Dollaruse) reported 50 minutes ago

  @PeterRHann1 I was selling on ebay in the 90s. Then came entification; listing fees and sabotaging leadership, almost as if ebay is a planned SHORT. Biggest problem is fraud - vetting is hard and requires human cost. FB Marketplace took over collector communities. Its a perfect match.

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  Austen J (@AustenJ248855) reported 52 minutes ago

  @deepakshenoy @mpsbiz You realize that you can't just issue new stock and magically create more money? And GME is worth 11 billion with the $9 billion cash. If you hand over the cash to eBay, the stock is worth only $2 billion.

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  Glitch Truth (@glitchtruth) reported 52 minutes ago

  GameStop just offered $56 billion to buy eBay. GameStop is worth $7 billion. eBay is worth $30 billion. The bid is nearly double what eBay trades for, and roughly eight times GameStop's entire market cap. No financing is attached. No bank syndicate is named. Ryan Cohen is running the same playbook that pumped Bed Bath & Beyond before it imploded: use meme-equity-inflated stock as deal currency, announce the transformative acquisition, hope the float squeezes hard enough that the math works retroactively. eBay's board has zero incentive to engage. There is no scenario where Cohen issues 8x his own float in new shares without the stock collapsing under dilution before the deal closes. For retail: when the bidder's market cap is one-quarter of the target's, the press release is the product. The deal is the bait. If you hold GME expecting "merger arbitrage," what you actually own is a covered short on Ryan Cohen's vibes.

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  👨‍💻 James Augeri, PhD (@DotDotJames) reported 53 minutes ago

  stack overflow down so hard should consider reverse uno on ai and become irl market / eBay competitor same for other stack exchange sites closet buffer, car getter, etc.