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 (64%)
• Sign in (22%)
• Errors (14%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Preston	Website Down	2 hours ago
Seattle	Sign in	11 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	16 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	22 hours ago
Savigny-le-Temple	Sign in	1 day ago
Preston	Website Down	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mr Hankey (@hivanchi) reported 5 minutes ago

  @eBay and sellers game the feedback removal. Removed negative feedback that was left after legitimate issue with an order.

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  Simon What (@Whachazuck) reported 6 minutes ago

  @davidareader @yeehahboogie @eevblog Ebay seem to have bought the Inpost contract from Vinted, not been option for while on Vinted. Standard US monopoly their basic search is full of issues, zero innovation but buy up the competition, or their main postage method anyway Need to rename as eDropshipbay since 2004..

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  collectorfix (@collectorfix) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser @CardPurchaser why have you all-of-a-sudden been focusing primarily on selling cards and how on eBay lately? Like micro breaking it down. Like obsessed with it.

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  Sam Parr (@thesamparr) reported 11 minutes ago

  Former CEO of PayPal + Inuit Bill Harris on Moneywise today. He broke down his portfolio and expenses (and what it was like working w/ Elon + thiel. - Net worth: ~$100m. Divorce cut it roughly in half - ~$50m in operating companies he's starting, ~$25m diversified securities, ~$25m bonds. No PE/hedge/alts - "absurd fees" - PayPal/eBay exit: personally "more than 20 million, less than 50" - Personal Capital: sold to Empower for $825m with $23b AUM; his take was north of $100m post-tax - New venture: ~$10m of his own money in - Total annual burn: ~$70-80k all in, property tax included ("well less than a hundred thousand bucks") - No mortgage (cottage paid off), no car, bikes to work - Owned a ton of stuff (houses, cars, planes). Sold it all because it took too much time to maintain.

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  DeePlaysGaming (@DeePlaysGaming) reported 13 minutes ago

  @robert_m45 @Pirat_Nation then when your discs that you cant use become so rare you can charge 3 times the amount you paid for it on ebay blaming disc drives not working is lame when a game licence runs out that gets taken from you for good and you signed up for it...we all did with any digital game.

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  GiantCrustacean (@BeCrustacean) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ConceptualJames Competition for clicks is getting very very comptetitive and the pressure to create consistent media output. Increase in fearmongering and ragebaiting, AI content is driving overall quality down to the lowest common denominator. This happened to Ebay in the 2000's.

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  HuntXr🫩 (@hunter_xzn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @anglio @eBay Woah woah Why didn’t you use some other platform or you didn’t know about this error ?

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  Card Throne (@cardthrone) reported 18 minutes ago

  I run Card Throne with a handful of Grok Bots. Each one owns a job. They don't all sit in one chat answering random questions. Scout does sourcing. Japanese inventory, carts, what to buy next. Grading plays and margins off my actual fees and costs. It never checks out. I still have to say purchase. Build is engineering. It only works on Card Throne Room, our seller tool. Scan a stack of cards, list to eBay, inventory management. When it's real code, it summons a cloud agent with pstack /poteto-mode. Throne runs the storefronts. Brings me the issues that actually have to move that day. Ledger does the books. Payouts, fees, receipts, the monthly P&L. Sentry monitors for any Card Throne Room bugs and pings Build if something needs fixed. Chief sits on top so I'm not pinging six bots to find out whose job a thing is. I still make the final calls.

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  Victory Gundam V1 (@Gundam_mf) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SylusMk2 I found the metal fix on eBay for like 1k Gl, the hummingbird figure is like a mythological creature at this point

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  Tyler (@SeeifIhaveit) reported 18 minutes ago

  Beware of this eBay seller. Purchased a J Baez lot when he was hot and I had to cancel and refund him because it sold on Mercari probably 15 minutes prior. He purchased it literally as I was taking down the eBay listing. I messaged him and apologized and refunded him immediately. Well… he left negative feedback and said he never got the cards.

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  Mike-E (@ATXCollectibles) reported 22 minutes ago

  @yanxchick A4: one of my 1/1 Colt McCoy Longhorn cards I communicated with the seller for about 6 years on eBay and YouTube until he was willing to come down to what I was comfortable paying. Originally asked $2k and I ended up paying $500.

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  Allyson 🪷 Bento (@NoSurrender_87) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Jtsbae69 I started using eBay in college & stick with that since I’ve built reviews. Starting fresh, I’d go down a Reddit rabbit hole, there are so many damn options now. See what sounds best. Make sure whatever you go with has seller protections!

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  Richard Fitch (@Sweetfitchie) reported 23 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser How many cards are being sent now at $80? I doubt everyone will stop. Plus ebay showed me a 49.99 grade with psa offer on a card i was looking at so some people are probably using that. This could be the new model. Prices may never come back down.

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  A.P.O.C (@AOchiawuto) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AirtelNigeria @lydiacreatesng Airtel Nigeria, why is your service so poor? I’ve tried registering on eBay, but the verification code never arrives on my Airtel line. Yet, the same code comes through immediately on MTN. What’s wrong with Airtel? Is Nigeria cursed? Please fix your SMS service!

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  Mike Palmer (シネフィル) 🎬 (@MikePalmerYT) reported 31 minutes ago

  Since July this year there are severe problems with orders from Japan and delivered from Japan Post in the European Union. I had three cases so far, and every parcel has been send back to Japan. A few days ago I ordered something very expensive of eBay.

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  Kiro (@KiroIkigai) reported 33 minutes ago

  The most reliable way to misread an earnings report is to start at the bottom line. $GME just posted preliminary net income up roughly 78% on net sales down roughly 19%. Both numbers are real. Only one of them is about the business. The quarter, company figures: -net sales: $780M to $800M, vs $972.2M a year ago -net income: $290M to $310M, vs $168.6M -operating income: $150M to $170M, vs $66.4M The bridge from falling sales to rising profit is one line. Roughly $238M of gains on an eBay derivative asset and an equity investment, less roughly $75M of digital-asset losses. about $163M of pre-tax marks. For scale: that eBay exposure is carried at about $4.947B. the company books about $790M of sales in a quarter. when the portfolio is that big, the income statement is partly a report on the portfolio. Credit where due: operating income more than doubled. that is a bigger percentage jump than the net income line everyone quotes. smaller, tighter, better-run retailer. real progress. not the headline story. Keep this part: -net income up while revenue is down: find the non-operating line first. it is usually one line, and it is usually named -size the securities book against the operating result. a $5B position swamps a sub-$200M quarter, in both directions -falling sales with improving operating income is a cost story. real, but a different story from the headline I am fully invested, and none of this changes that. guidance direction and price reaction have been disagreeing all earnings season. last Thursday five of seven reporters raised guidance and four of the seven closed lower. reading the price as the verdict on the numbers is the error. The case against: I may be underselling the operating turn, which more than doubled at every point of the guided range. and these are preliminary figures. no call is scheduled, and complete results are due September 8. $GME $EBAY

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  Nigel J Bevans Photo (@NJBDP) reported 36 minutes ago

  @hmefsww Hi, unfortunately I closed my website store down as they were charging a ridiculous amount to sell things. To keep prices reasonably I had to find an alternative and only have eBay at moment. I could do it via paypal cutting out ebay if you would like?

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  Chase Jordan (@goatcollect) reported 40 minutes ago

  Following the clear confusion between labeling a jersey with a MEARS letter game used, I am hearing @eBay and @GoldinCo have finally decided to change their policies. No word on exactly what the shift is, but it is clear @eBay has recognized the liability created by selling objects as game used that their own internal team would clearly have reason to believe are not. Times have changed and credit to eBay for responding to it. Probably saved themselves from big issues down the road.

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  Stitch (@StitchKings) reported 41 minutes ago

  @ai_degen_hick @grok can you explain how much someone nets on an eBay card sale of $2,025 after fees for our slow friend here?

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  T-Bob Hebert (@TBob53) reported 44 minutes ago

  I remember getting this issue in a giant haul from eBay when I was younger

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  AXISPAW (@AXISPAW) reported 48 minutes ago

  @KJovian Dude bought a broken one off Ebay for clicks

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  Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported 49 minutes ago

  Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.

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  kitchen witchen 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kitchen_witchen) reported 50 minutes ago

  @eBay This *** AI listing system is slow as molasses in Antarctica. I could do this in half the time and not have to fix literally every step. **** offffff

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 50 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  SaThomas (@SaThomas__) reported 51 minutes ago

  @norm19020 @CardPurchaser @eBay Yes, counteroffers are broken.

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  Artamos (@Artamos_) reported 52 minutes ago

  @MommaOcco eBay and other retailers that have 3rd party sellers need to crack down on presale/preorder listings. Should be only on hand product

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  Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported 53 minutes ago

  Pull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬

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  Pokémon Deals, Restock and Alerts (@PokemonRestockr) reported 57 minutes ago

  @J_Vetter14 @Stassibaby12 @Pacho9_3 I assume it was ebay to took the seller down, keep me updated on what happens. Wild times

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  Dorian Muthig (@dorianmuthig) reported 57 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc Yeah… they don’t want to give you the working ones anymore, either. It’s starting to get so bad, even the repairable ones are sorted out first, too. Even on eBay, most “defective, for parts, not working”, are listed after repair attempts only, and they try to scam not disclosing

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  Byron Vallis (@Byronnn6) reported 60 minutes ago

  @calvinfroedge Free shipping and eBay fees will knock this down to like $4.5 my friend. Better luck next time