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 (48%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Colchester	Website Down	1 hour ago
Preston	Website Down	2 hours ago
Caerphilly	Errors	6 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	10 hours ago
Blackburn	Website Down	10 hours ago
Lexington	Errors	12 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ecom Sam (@ecomsamguy) reported 6 minutes ago

  January 2024: selling random stuff on eBay. £300/month. Niched down. Built a Shopify store. Ran TikTok organic. December 2024: £22,000 in one month. Same effort. Better focus. That's it.

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  I ❤️ Grok (@JayThomas119186) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Bossflicker @omoelerinjare1 @Walmart And you take it out of there check.. shes a minor. I can literally purchase a vest on ebay right now. A badge is different but they shut them down right after termination.

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  Real Janesville™ WI (@RealJanesville) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bavedikian @BestBuy @FedEx Recently ordered an item off Ebay and did not receive it. I sent a note to the seller of the delivery problem and instead of writing "we'll issue a refund after 3 days," they wrote "We will file a complaint with the third party delivery service on your behalf." That's bold.

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  Gerid Goudwin (@InstaMntalMasta) reported 15 minutes ago

  Why do eBay sellers create so many problems? I just won 5 auctions. Combined shipping wasn’t applied automatically in cart. 4 have autopay in 7 days. One has autopay in one hour. Ended within minutes of each other. Why??? I don’t even want to contact you to get the promised price

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  Allan (@eallan_o) reported 16 minutes ago

  @StivtheTalisman @importsbyjustus You hating man, I’ve been buying and using refurb phones from eBay for the longest time without a problem. My current phone is a refurbished Pixel 8 pro which I got more than a year ago and it‘s still perfect.

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  Hamad Ahmad (@hamad2196) reported 22 minutes ago

  @eBay After 5 years, 2,000+ positive reviews, and full compliance with every document and tracking request, an automated bot permanently restricted my account without explanation. Legitimate sellers are being caught in broken Trust & Safety loops.

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  🎰⁷ (@ilovemyweedpen) reported 22 minutes ago

  me when i sell sports cards to girlies and nb folks: ohhh let me round the price down!! me when i sell sports cards to ebay sports bros: 150%

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  Brad Miller (@sirbrad4) reported 22 minutes ago

  @stefanmaga2026 @WhiteHouse So why's small businesses going broke from tariffs then you fat lying ****? Why am I still paying tariffs on eBay when they were struck down as ILLEGAL MAGAt? Why have I not yet received those $5,000 DOGE & Tariff Dividend checks that **** Dump now said he never said? 🤡🤡🤡

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  CarolinaMama (@IamCarolinaMama) reported 23 minutes ago

  @bavedikian @BestBuy @FedEx I smell some waste, fraud and abuse going on here. By hiring and retaining criminals (who steal and likely resell the goods), FedEx should be liable as an accessory to a crime imho. Best Buy owes you a refund, but FedEx is knowingly supporting a criminal. I’ve had similar issues buying on eBay for electronics to disappear at the USPS. The tracking number in limbo forever, postal service offers no help. Just inexplicably lost in a facility. Seller refunded, but there must be a **** ton of criminals in shipping. I’m really getting fed up with all the fraud.

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  alb2m2 (@alb2m2) reported 23 minutes ago

  My server is a used desktop PC. Intel i5-10600K (6 cores / 12 threads) 16GB DDR4 RAM AMD RDNA4 GPU — added separately, for reasons I'll get to I didn't buy new. A 3-year-old PC on eBay for ~$350. The components are more than capable for this workload.

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  stevie/davy .ᐟ 𖦹 (@polytallica) reported 29 minutes ago

  @NeftoonZamora im just hoping enough of them made it to australia for them to be easy to find. ive had no issue finding monkees monthlys on ebay so i hope thats a good sign

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  Jordan-Tyler Burchett (@JTBurchett) reported 33 minutes ago

  @BadalK99277 No one is saying that macOS isn't "powerful" but the Apple Hardware is WAY overpriced and the software and OS itself are too locked down. Linux is GOAT because it's free and it can run on a $50 ebay find laptop.

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  Terry Johnson (@TerryJPatsFan12) reported 34 minutes ago

  @thehollylin1 All fair criticisms. I dont grade, and with prices and wait times, I really have no desire to grade. I sell primarily on Mercari, with a handful of listings on eBay. I wonder if the wrong back cards could fetch a few extra $'s as they are errors and some folks collect those.

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  Mat Helm (@mathelm64) reported 35 minutes ago

  @bavedikian This happen to me by Fedex over a decade ago... Even had video of the Fedex truck slowing down as it passed my house about the time they showed it delivered. They didn't even want to see the video, but the seller (Ebay, not Best Buy) made it good. Don't know if Fedex paid up.

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  Centexsales512 (@edmundfitzz) reported 36 minutes ago

  @DesertHeatCards Jimmy, I was disappointed to learn that this was not some super rare error card. I thought I was retiring early. I put it on eBay for $8 but I might take it down idk

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  Trevor Hoffart (@TrevorIRL) reported 38 minutes ago

  While markets across the globe melt down, GME is allocating more of its cash to eBay. Guess we know why it was green!

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  Chris Merrill (@spac3craf) reported 38 minutes ago

  [grok] I hear you—that frustration is exactly why a lot of people are bailing on streaming and going back to physical media like CDs. The “convenience” argument falls apart once you actually look at the experience: • Ads & interruptions: Free tiers (or even some paid ones) shove in audio/video ads that kill the flow. Even “premium” can have algorithmic interruptions, sponsored playlists, or “recommended” nonsense that hijacks your queue. • Getting in your way: You don’t truly own the music. Playlists change or disappear. Songs get removed for licensing reasons. The app decides what’s available, what order it plays in, and sometimes throttles quality or skips if you’re offline. Want to just listen to a full album straight through? Good luck if the service buries it under “radio” mode or endless suggestions. • Endless fees: Monthly subscriptions that keep rising. Lose your job or cancel? Your entire library vanishes. Families end up paying for multiple accounts or fighting over one. Add in hardware (nice headphones, DACs, etc.) and it’s not cheap anymore. • Manufactured scarcity: Labels and services deliberately limit high-quality files, exclusive tracks, or early releases to push bundles, vinyl reissues, or “deluxe” editions. You end up renting access to something that could have been yours forever for a one-time purchase. Going back to CDs (or vinyl, or even high-bitrate local files) is a direct equal-and-opposite reaction to all that, just like the original post said. You pay once, rip it if you want a digital backup, and it’s yours. No one can take it away, insert ads, or nerf the quality. The anti-skip portable players people are buying now make it genuinely practical again—even for the gym or car. A lot of folks are doing the same: rediscovering their old collections, buying used CDs cheap on Discogs/eBay, or even ripping everything to a local server (Jellyfin, Navidrome, etc.) so they get the best of both worlds without corporate gatekeepers. It’s not anti-progress. It’s rejecting a model that turned music into a never-ending subscription treadmill full of friction. Physical media (or self-hosted files) gives back control and peace.

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  Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) reported 40 minutes ago

  A broken laser pointer. On Labor Day weekend in 1995, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched the site (originally called AuctionWeb) from his living room as a personal project. He listed his own broken laser pointer, which he had bought for about $30 but stopped working after a couple of weeks, to test the platform. He was upfront in the listing that it didn’t work, even with new batteries. It sold for $14.83 to a buyer named Mark Fraser (a collector of broken laser pointers, according to the legend). The sale happened shortly after the site went live on September 3, 1995. This quirky first transaction is often cited as the perfect symbol for eBay: turning something worthless into value through online auctions. Does anyone still use eBay?

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  Prometheus (@prometheus8080) reported 42 minutes ago

  @TheOmen8 @txrangerstime @eBay ESE is tracked, it’s also ensured up to $20 and i’ve had 1,000+ orders with only 3 having issues. I get wanting extra protection, but it’s a market based off prices. If you’re putting up a $3 card with $5 shipping and someone else has it for $3.74 they’re gonna pick the cheaper

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  Ro (@erroa06) reported 42 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc That's right. I tried to make a back up, but the speed was slowing down to zero. Then I checked them with h2testw and they were fake. vkehxgu and @eBay wash their hands

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  Golden Frieza (@theleahlondon_) reported 45 minutes ago

  i ordered one from ebay… and it came broken… 2 months ago

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  Caucasian from Caucasus (@JlB77007) reported 47 minutes ago

  @bavedikian @BestBuy @FedEx I was selling stuff on ebay and shipping them via FedEx. Couple time when the item was damaged due to FedEx handling they refunded me. So I don't see what is the best buy problem if FedEx admitted its responsibility. BTW by doing sow FedEx kept me as a customer and I improved my packaging.

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  aaron berger (@PhxFSD) reported 53 minutes ago

  @TeslaNewswire I have the same issue goes in a loop and ebay is also involved. I contacted @Apple support and the advisor will let me know when there is a fix she has never seen this glitch. It is preventing the Tesla app from updating and Ebay

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  Ochob (@0chob) reported 53 minutes ago

  An 18-year-old is making $15,000/week from a tab open on his laptop. The tab is Google Maps. Pause at 0:17. The screen recording opens on what looks like a homework session. Discord on the second monitor. A half-finished problem set in a tab. A water bottle next to the laptop. Standard freshman setup. The active window is Google Maps. He's panning across a suburb of Cincinnati. Zooming in on a strip mall. Clicking a plumber. Then an HVAC company. Then a roofer. Look at what he opens next. It's not the business website. It's the page source. The HVAC company's site was built in 2011. jQuery 1.4. A copyright footer that still says 2017. The plumber's site loads in 8.4 seconds. The roofer doesn't have a mobile version at all - pinch-zoom on a phone and the navbar disappears entirely. He saves all three to a spreadsheet. Then he opens Claude. Eleven minutes later, the plumber has a new website. Fast. Mobile-first. Lead-capture form wired up. A Lovable deployment link sitting in a draft email. He sends the email cold. Subject line: "Built you a new site —-see if you like it." Body: one line. "If you do, it's $1,800. If not, no hard feelings." The plumber replies in 47 minutes. Says yes. Venmos a deposit that afternoon. By the time the kid finishes his econ reading at 9pm, he's closed three more. He's been doing this since June. The pattern is mechanical. He filters Google Maps for businesses ranked #4 through #15 in their category - not the top three (they have agencies), not below #15 (they don't convert). He cross-references with recent reviews — businesses still actively getting them, meaning the owner is paying attention. Then he checks the page source for the jQuery version. Anything older than 2018 is a lead. Someone in the replies pulled up his Stripe screenshots. June: $4,200. July: $11,800. August: $34,000. September: $58,000. October: he stopped posting numbers because his university financial aid office started asking questions. The websites take him 18 to 24 minutes each. Claude writes the copy. Lovable handles the build. He doesn't touch a code editor. He doesn't pitch on calls. He doesn't have a portfolio site of his own — he says it would slow him down. His conversion rate on cold emails is 11%. Someone tried to replicate the workflow. They built a site for a chiropractor. Sent the email. Got ghosted. Tried again. Got ghosted. Tried a third time. Closed for $1,400. The kid responded in the thread. Said the issue wasn't the site or the email - it was the targeting. The chiropractor's site was already mobile-responsive. He'd skipped the disqualification step. "You're solving a problem they don't have yet." He runs the loop 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, between classes and his 8pm pickup basketball league. His roommate thinks he sells stuff on eBay. Last week he closed 11 sites. Averaged $1,650 each. Cleared $18,150. The week before, $14,400. The week before that, $16,200. He's 18. He's been doing this for 5 months. He's on track to clear $480,000 by his 19th birthday. Somewhere, a 34-year-old web designer with 8 years of Webflow experience is wondering why his agency pipeline is dry this quarter. Why local businesses keep telling him "we already got a new site." He isn't competing with agencies. He isn't competing with freelancers. He's competing with a kid who hasn't declared a major yet.

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  Aaron Lemke (@aaronlemke) reported 55 minutes ago

  My ADU was broken into recently and several musical instruments were stolen. So I built Vigilanthony An agent who tracks stolen items. It has a list of all my stolen items, and every morning scans online marketplaces like Craigslist and Ebay along with several **** shop sites surrounding the Austin area. It then analyzes the results and looks for matches with my item list. No hits yet but we will stay vigilant. ✊

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  Seedhi Baat (@beepaloo) reported 55 minutes ago

  Today's DEFA14A filing = the dilution green light. ✅ GME clarified Proposal 5: increase authorized shares to 2.5 billion — so they can issue ~1.26B new shares as the 50% stock portion of their $125/share eBay bid. Hostile mode. Cohen is going directly to eBay shareholders. 2/7

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  Lolo (@ZeloZoo) reported 55 minutes ago

  @eBay Representative hung up on me Not nice Multi billion dollar corporation has the worst seller lack there of support Reps mention that I have a ticket for an issue Is there a number that I can reference on said ticket? No No? Ebay took my money and I have to wait ???

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  KKATC CARDS (@KKATCCards) reported 55 minutes ago

  Despite eBay’s decision to permaban my account. V1.8 continues to be developed for eBay users. A one-time login between KKATC Cards and your main account: All of your purchases will be imported to inventory with your cost basis properly recorded based on the transaction. All your eBay sales with a click of a button will be imported with proceeds properly broken out based on the transaction. The goal is to only reduce manual importing to your off-marketplace inventory/sales and other expenses for your resale operation. Once you import your offline transactions, you will have a professional-grade Schedule C and soon to come Schedule E workpapers built by a tax professional with IRC and IRM guidance built in. Ready to hand to your CPA or import into your own software. That is only the reseller use case. Breakers, Stack Sellers and Lots operations use cases are live. That is what KKATC Cards is. Designed to reduce your increasing tax burden.

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  George Lutas (@GeorgeLutas1) reported 57 minutes ago

  @paulg I've spent a heck of a long time looking at the eBay marketplace specifically because they've devolved into utter insanity, and while it IS rather difficult to handle that double exchange issue well, there are cracks in the armor (at least in the case of eBay). Maybe generalized?

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  Dravion (@Umbral_Ice) reported 1 hour ago

  @sugarc0maa Shame you? I got a PS2 a couple of years ago off eBay the disk tray is kind of clunky and it’s slow to read discs but it’s nice to play every so often