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 (45%)
• Sign in (36%)
• Errors (18%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	25 minutes ago
Burton upon Trent	Website Down	4 hours ago
Draguignan	Website Down	7 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	10 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	16 hours ago
Pomona	Website Down	19 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Bizzaro (@BizzaroPlanet) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ClassicII_MrMac Yes! Ebay oregon trail on floppy, wipe it down with windex, load the game and flip the combo for a thousand bucks.

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  XShadesX (@TheRealXShadesX) reported 12 minutes ago

  @CanonCsa @zebular0 True. Issue I have with that for starters is not a lot of people like GameStop. GameStops reputation is still ****. People will still go to eBay over GameStop marketplace.

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  The Bitcoin Woodchuck 🤲🐢 (@OracleOfTexas) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Amy_Bps Well , let’s tag him again. @ryancohen Without doxing myself - as the **** talking woodchuck isn’t exactly PC - the human behind said account had a very large and successful eBay business. (Sold on other retailers as well). Someone bought me out in 2020. Make no mistake - the company is poorly run. (Sellers are mistreated). But the product is great. I thought selling on eBay was always easier and quicker , especially compared to trademarks with Amazon. (I had my own brand). But. When you got a terrible customer , or a scammer , zero assistance from eBay I got big enough eventually where I could eat the cost - but starting out it was extraordinary painful. A eBay type site with Chewy customer service is a home run.

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  Bier Collectibles TCG (@bierc_tcg) reported 22 minutes ago

  It seems my Ebay shops arent linked properly on my linktree. I will fix this today, im just finishing an overnight shift. Apologies for this error

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  Robbie (@RobbieV1988104) reported 24 minutes ago

  @thwacknicklaus This club thwarted my free golf in college. Had a course where you paid $1 and wrote your name down if you’re a member. I’d pay the buck and write down my friend’s name who had a membership. Bought this driver off eBay and roped one down the first fairway - too much attention.

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  Francesco (@francescoinweb3) reported 24 minutes ago

  How did I build a mini PC for $500? People don’t buy products; they buy brands. More often than not, you can buy the exact same product for less, just under a different name. Manufacturers tout impressive figures like ‘86 TOPS’, but in practice what matters is → Memory capacity → SSD → Bandwidth → Cooling I found a Beelink SER 8 with a Ryzen 7 8845 HS, 32 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD on eBay for $480 Additional costs → External case: $25 Memory speed and RAM capacity are far more important. You don’t need 128 GB of RAM unless you’re running 70V models Here’s how things turned out after a week of using the mini PC LIama 3 works without any issues Qwen 3 responds instantly Electricity savings of around $20 a month AI subscriptions are free By buying a mini PC for yourself, you’re not just saving on electricity. You’re also saving on space. It will also be beneficial for companies not to have to maintain mini PCs, as they require no maintenance and incur no additional costs.

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  Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported 26 minutes ago

  GameStop is about to make the Final Bid for $EBAY On May 3rd, 2026, $GME made a bid for $eBay: "proposed offer is $125.00 per share, comprising 50% cash and 50% GameStop common stock, with full shareholder election rights as to consideration type and pro-rata allocation." Since making that bid, he has gone on a full media pressure campaign, highlighting the misalignment and inadequacies of the management and board of $eBay. The bid was promptly rejected in the face of a stunning 2.5 billion share auth proposal at the July 7th meeting, seemingly to get the $eBay deal done, though the two have not been explicitly linked. Last we heard from @ryancohen was that he is taking the deal directly to shareholders. So what does that mean? —————— WHY EBAY? Let's first look at the target: $eBay. $eBay has around ~90% institutional ownership. Now, in the face of an activist takeover and a hostile bid, what does that mean exactly? First, it means the shareholders of eBay are heavily organized and concentrated. The bidder does not have to convince a million people separately. He just has to convince a few holders of the stock. Second, institutions have a hard mandate. They are fiduciaries of capital, not shareholders convinced for a multitude of reasons. There is only one reason they care about: does it make sense financially? A fiduciary, by law, has to evaluate the offer against standalone value. If the premium is real and the financing is committed, they tender. Not because they want to. Because they have to. For a potential acquisition target, that is not a defense. That is a STRONG vulnerability. And for a hostile bidder, that is everything. —————— MOVE 1: THE REJECTION You can't launch a hostile tender without first making a friendly offer the board refuses. The rejection is the legal prerequisite. It establishes that the board won't negotiate, which justifies going around them. But it matters HOW they reject. If they say "$125 is too low": you're negotiating price before you've started. If they say "not credible": they've rejected the financing, NOT the number. And look at what eBay actually said: "neither credible nor attractive." They left $125 completely unchallenged. Cohen didn't just get rejected. He got rejected perfectly. Price locked. Board on record fighting the wrong battle. Hostile lane open. The dismissible bid was designed, not fumbled. He could have shown up May 3 with committed financing. The board would have had to engage. Price negotiation starts at $125 but eventually he pays more, and it's open to negotiation. Instead, he showed up with a highly confident letter the board COULD dismiss and they dismissed it on financing, not price. Now, when the financing firms up, their only stated objection disappears, and they've already conceded $125 by never contesting it. Meanwhile, he amassed 2,480,467 shares, funded with cash. The 39M-share conversion untouched. Move 1 is complete. —————— COHEN EXPLICITLY TOLD YOU MOVE 2 IS COMING The public press run Ryan Cohen did was very interesting for a multitude of reasons. First, he had to keep his cool under pressure. The viral CNBC clips show just how difficult that is. Second, the interviews themselves are hard to curate to ensure no critical information leaks out. And in that, he explcitly states his next move. Anthony Pompliano Interview: "It's going to come down to the owners of the business and who they believe are the best fiduciaries of their capital." The owners decide. Not the board. That's the tender described in one sentence. "If it was all stock, GameStop shareholders would own 20% of the business. eBay would own 80% of the earnings." He described the all-stock version. Framed it as the bad outcome for his own shareholders. Then went silent on the alternative. Barron's Interview: "The board and the management team cannot run and hide forever." A board hides behind a rejection letter. You can't hide from a tender: it goes directly to your shareholders. "Ultimately this will be resolved by shareholders." He says it twice. Not the board. Shareholders. "I'm not receiving risk-free compensation and selling stock without putting money on the line." That's the pitch to eBay's institutions, pre-loaded into the public record. When the tender arrives: your management takes risk-free comp and sells stock. I take zero salary and get paid only if the combined company hits hurdles. Who should run your asset? "Private equity is really good at raising money and charging management fees. I'm an operator." He's killing the white-knight defense before the board even tries it. When they look for an alternative buyer, PE is the obvious candidate, but Cohen has already framed them as fee-extractors. That defense is pre-neutralized. Every answer points at the same mechanism: a tender offer, direct to shareholders, where the owners decide. SO WHERE IS IT? —————— THE AGM WAS THE LAST PIECE OF INTEL The highly watched $ebay AGM came and went, and many GameStop shareholders were dissappointed. Proposal 4 on the slate specifically was the one to watch: a proposal to lower the special-meeting threshold to 10%. Ultimately, all motions passed in favour of ebay's board and the proposal was rejected. However, let's take a look at the context. This is not the first time this proposal has been brought forward, and every time it has failed. What was the difference this time? This time, the board hired Innisfree, a professional adversarial proxy defense entity. They ran two weeks of direct outreach.  On the other side, @ryancohen amassed close to a 10% position, not going above, but buying direct shares as well.  So what were the results? 2026: 42.8% in favour.  Compare that to 2025: 49% in favour.  So what does that mean in the context of the situation? For a company that is held 90% by institutions, 43% voted IN FAVOUR OF A HOSTILE BIDDER BEING ABLE TO CALL A SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING. Nearly HALF the register defied the board's recommendation DURING AN ACTIVE HOSTILE BID, AFTER the board spent weeks fighting it with a professional proxy solicitor. The institutions who did vote with the board on Proposal 4 didn't do it because they love eBay management. They did it because an uncommitted activist at 9% isn't a strong enough reason to hand him structural tools. Change "uncommitted activist" to "fully funded premium tender" and fiduciary duty makes the decision for them. 42.7% defied the board on a hypothetical. The question is: What happens when the offer is real and sitting in their account? The AGM was never the battlefront for $GME, just the last piece of data he needed before Move 2. Now he has it. —————— THE TENDER A tender doesn't need the board's permission. Doesn't need a merger vote. Doesn't need a special meeting. Doesn't need Proposal 4. It goes directly to the owners. Every shareholder individually decides. The board can recommend against it, but they can't stop it from reaching their shareholders. A fund manager holding eBay at ~$100 receives a funded offer at $125. The math: take certain cash at a 25–46% premium, or hold under a board whose only defense just collapsed. "I believed in eBay management" is a career-ending sentence when the alternative was guaranteed money. The board's one tool is a poison pill. A pill blocks the tender from closing, but not from staying open. Not from the arbs flooding the register. Not from the story running. And a pill turns it into a proxy war. eBay is declassified. Majority-vote. Every director stands annually. "Replace the directors blocking your $125" is a short fight when arbs hold the register and the board's own stated objection no longer exists. Cohen said it: "cannot run and hide forever." A pill buys time but it doesn't win. —————— THE WINDOW Since the last 425, Cohen has gone quiet. The longest gap of the campaign: straight through eBay's AGM and out the other side. Let's look at the calendar a bit and try to surmise what he is planning. July 7: GameStop's annual meeting. Two proposals matter, and they are not the same vote. The authorized-share increase of 2.5 billion is close to a formality. The June 8 proxy supplement spelled it out: simple majority of votes cast, and NYSE deems it routine, so brokers vote uninstructed shares *for* it. That one passes. Cohen knows it passes and that's what the proxy supplement was to clarify. The CEO performance award is the hard one. It was pitched to be decided by unaffiliated holders which is a higher bar than a plain majority.  But here's what the supplement also said: the share authorization is *not* a condition of the pay award. The two are decoupled. And the authorization was never explicitly tied to the eBay deal to begin with. So read it straight. Cohen does not need the July 7 vote to move on eBay. He already has the shares and the structure. What he needs is the other half: committed financing locked *before* he reveals a direct offer to a base that's ~90% institutional. Institutions don't tender on a "highly confident" letter. They tender on certain cash. And then there's Teddy. The site Cohen built for his father has been password-gated since June 1. During this entire saga, this has never ocurred. This Sunday is Father's Day. What I'm watching for: Teddy goes live on Father's Day, Sunday June 21 and the formal offer hits the tape the next morning, Monday June 22. —————— TL;DR: This was always two moves. Move 1: present a dismissible bid. Let the board reject it on financing. Lock the price. Accumulate cheap. Map the register. Move 2: fix the financing. Take the same $125 directly to the owners of a 90% institutional company, where fiduciary duty makes tendering a forced move. Move 1 is done. The board rejected on financing, not price. The toehold is built. The AGM data is in hand. "The board cannot run and hide forever."

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  (Rodimus) JosephtheN3rd (@JosephtheN3rd) reported 29 minutes ago

  @blackvvidows @HankMcPym People buy these for parts. Once it officially releases check eBay. There’s tons of people who just strip them down to sell the parts individually

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  Lion_Heart (@DeniseMarie305) reported 29 minutes ago

  @NavyVet Doing what they do best, FRAUD. Stealing them from stores and reselling them on ebay. Slithering snakes are not entitled to our court system! Deport immediately. I am sad that alligator Alcatraz is preparing to shut down

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  Bid Sniper for eBay (@Myibidder) reported 30 minutes ago

  Most issues with eBay purchases can be resolved by contacting the seller via eBay messages, this is not the end of the world #MyibidderTips

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  Raineꪆ𓏲🍎Mark Grayson’s lawyer (@duckseeksducks) reported 31 minutes ago

  There is literally one eBay listing for the issue but I’m not even sure if it’s a real listing or if it’s lying to me. Either way it’s sealed and I’m not buying it so..I emailed a few websites so we’ll see what happens.

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  Big Guy (@MrBryanChardum) reported 32 minutes ago

  @CTechworkers I’ve been selling on eBay for 20 years. eBay processes and app gets clunkier and clunkier. You can be in the app click something and it launches a web browser for you to login in. The experience once logged in is normally a doom loop

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  Tru Arte (@MrHuntinNoobs) reported 34 minutes ago

  @ebay I have a genuine question. How come when I look for an item sold it is not in chronological order? Like the most recent order should be at the top of the page I'm looking now and the most recent order is 15 to 20 items down but you'll have an item that sold in May above it

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  iam16bit (@iam16bit) reported 35 minutes ago

  @XRPee1983 I did with a copy of Super Mario Sunshine. The listing claimed it had no scratches & was tested. That was a load of bull because the damn thing was so scratched to hell that neither the Gamecube or Wii could read it. Ebay forced the seller to accept the return & issue a refund.

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  Surprise-MFKA (@SurpriseMfka) reported 35 minutes ago

  @TCGPokePlug @eBay 13% eBay fees is a terrible pain. But we all know this before listing. Sell with a consigner for high end and pay only 5%.

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  UrbanCowboy (@UrbanCowboyII) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TurbosLady9493 Lisa I love you so I want to take the time to follow up here. I think what concerns me is players have used scrips in gear, and in hats before this, a player has used it for a passed wash friend. The rules didn’t apply there. Now this is an issue, that’s what my point is. Is it really optional? I don’t see it when social pressure is pushed so hard to get these guys to conform. See giants pitcher who chose not to wear it on eBay he says. Headlines were made of rays players, dodgers, giants etc on not wearing. I’m not asking anyone to change their views, I think I’m just asking for mutual respect. Players shouldn’t feel socially obligated to deny the lord for anyone or anything, and title VII tells us that shouldn’t be a thing.

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  dutch (@dutchdecrypto) reported 41 minutes ago

  @poke_maam i'm with you in the current. right now if you sell ebay auction/consigning or as a vendor you get to sell at a premium but someone is taking a cut I think over time that cut being taken trends down as long as onchain marketplaces keep getting more desirable inventory and more liquidity this is not a quick thing but a long term trend

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  Bobby “pipe bomb” (CFA,CFP, MBA) (@BobbyPipeBomb) reported 44 minutes ago

  @CrenshawJoel94 There is ZERO issue with getting smth off eBay from a club you already play (once a week)

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  Carlo (@CarloCashMoney) reported 49 minutes ago

  @staypredictable Bonds are suppressing the price. Plus the 2.5 billion shares. Once buyback kicks in and big money comes on board price will run. Also shorts will pull the price down to make it harder to acquire eBay. But, time and patience always wins.

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  Matthew Coppola (@matthewcoppola) reported 50 minutes ago

  @BackJogle @Baron_Revilgaz 1) The dilution doesn’t matter to me. Sure, my shares are worth less in the short-term, but I immediately have ownership of more earnings per share because the Ebay deal is earnings accretive. Additionally, I’m not worried about Cohen’s ability to return shareholder capital because I saw him do it with Chewy. 2) The stagnation is transient. The entire gaming industry has been stagnating compared to the rapid growth of the 2010s. This is not an indicator of the long term economic potential, in my view. I play video games and have been studying the market for a long time. I am bullish on video games and the products that derive from them. 3) There are no governance issues that concern me. Cohen has been doing exactly what he said he was going to do and the investment thesis has not changed much since 2020. The only thing different is we have more evidence to say that he can further achieve his goals. The pay package is essentially a performance based stock option. It’s modeled after the way Elon is compensated. I am for this and would run my own company this way. This type of structure incentivizes good, accountable stewardship.

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  𝙿𝙾𝙺𝙴𝙰𝙷𝙾𝙴 (@pokeahoesol) reported 51 minutes ago

  @NoCap_rioX @MonkeySpank420 @DNConChain You have a platform working to bring people to others bedsides eBay that just rob people with fees. I’m down for it

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  green 💚🌈 (@creepsandcrawls) reported 52 minutes ago

  @TCGPokePlug @eBay I understand the market but anyone contributing to rediculous prices of cards/slabs or indirectly creating no MSRP is contributing to the problem of the hobby

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  Antid (@antisadh) reported 59 minutes ago

  ONE USED RTX 3090 FROM A MINING FARM LIKE THIS REPLACED A $440/MONTH OPENAI BILL FOR $11 IN ELECTRICITY mining farms across texas and oregon are quietly winding down after the kaspa drop, racks of used RTX 3090s flooding ebay at $500 a card, the same hardware that mined crypto in 2021 now runs local AI tyler grabbed one off a farm liquidation sale in austin last sunday, 24GB of VRAM, EVGA founders edition, plugged it into his desktop tower the same night the card runs alibaba's qwen 3.6 27B at 40 tokens per second, the model scores 84.1 on vision benchmarks against claude 4.5 opus at 77, both numbers public and verifiable he was paying $440 a month across claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini and cursor, cancelled all four the same week, every workload now runs through ollama with one environment variable change total ongoing cost $8 a month in electricity, the card pays for itself in 3.5 months, the rest of the mining farm gets sold to the next 200 developers chasing the same math the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes

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  Peewee (@peewee_216) reported 1 hour ago

  @ebay - you need to fix this and keep the authentication team accountable for the lack of attention and care put into proccessing authentications and sending them to customers. This is incredibly disappointing and I will escalate this to whoever is running this division of Ebay

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  LEWIS MELCHER (@cardshopmd) reported 1 hour ago

  I swear I have had it with eBay, I have a ton of items to list and the bulk uploader is not working. I I do not have the time to list 800+ Soccer items 1x1 @eBay get your **** together

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  Buyervee Sellers Conglomerate (@BuyerveeSellers) reported 1 hour ago

  @glacierptrading @Vfwbartender11 Why do you pick 30? Why not 60? 80? Would you be happy at $30? Prob not GME goes up and down. We all wanted a short squeeze. Ryan Cohen wants to buy eBay. These two things can work together, but it takes longer to capture the squeeze & get eBay. You either like the plan or sell.

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  sab (@sablikefab) reported 1 hour ago

  people wonder why i have daddy issues and in part it’s because i got my dad a barbour jacket for father’s day one year and he sold it on ebay #FathersDay

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  Tron (@tholla09) reported 1 hour ago

  @foxenflask Is it the same eBay shareholders that just voted down the 10% prop?

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  coooookie cutttter (@NunnnnnaB) reported 1 hour ago

  @dear_angel_lacy @imtrashdva @soitgoeslexi I think it’s really ******* annoying to triple down on something like this when someone who acc spent their money on the cd has a review on it. This person got in the queue and bought something. They’re allowed to return it/be dissapointed in it and not sell it on eBay

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  Teddy.com (@teddy__com) reported 1 hour ago

  @glacierptrading Because GME cultists are angry, edge lord worshippers. I actually believe in RC. I think the comp plan is insane. But I think he has a good plan. And no, I do not believe he intends on buying eBay. I believe he is using eBay as a target to drive the share price down and create an insane squeeze dynamic. Buybacks coming.