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 (44%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Errors (18%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	6 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Colmar	Website Down	2 days ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago
Essen	Sign in	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  T (@Tschuochsutaere) reported 9 minutes ago

  @VolaTim $PYPL will go down in the history books, in how to squander a once in a lifetime head start to getting taken out by a rival half your age. Fascinating and the market thought after the EBAY spun out PYPL will be a lean mean innovation machine the opposite happened.

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  VooDoobie (@SESFistOJustice) reported 12 minutes ago

  @eBay there are no options there for my issue.

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  Al (@lesbianlvr69) reported 19 minutes ago

  EBAY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE SEARCH FUNCTION! I KNOW YOU ARE TRYING TO OPTIMIZE MONEY OR WHATEVER BUT IF THE SEARCH FUNCTION CANT EVEN BRING UP BASIC ITEMS LIKE “BIKINI” OR “SHORTS” UR APP IS BROKEN @eBay

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  Auri (@Bleek____) reported 21 minutes ago

  @eBay I have to say, I'm floored at just how bad you guys have become. Honestly, 20 years on your platform and you can't even send a human to fix your mess? This is why @Walmart and @amazon are eating your lunch. Have fun with your scammers.

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  Ethan | Wax Cache (@wax_cache) reported 21 minutes ago

  Is eBay down for anyone else? 👀 @CardPurchaser

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  Zachery Ringstrom (@zringstrom) reported 23 minutes ago

  My gambling problem isn't a gambling problem it's a bidding-on-old-books-on-eBay problem

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  The Floppy Taco (@The_Floppy_Taco) reported 23 minutes ago

  @eBay has a serious problem with it’s AI flagging listings for PRESALE violations that couldn’t be more in-policy. Maybe let your inept AI flag a possible “violation” & have human eyes verify before pulling it. You make BILLIONS through your sellers, DO BETTER.

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  Alex-Mae (@Dementcia1) reported 25 minutes ago

  I’m thinking about getting the complete Geneon releases of Black Lagoon but I’m trouble trying to find a complete set that doesn’t cost too much on eBay.

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  King Contrarian (@King_Contrarian) reported 25 minutes ago

  @eBay I just want you to know that selling cards on eBay is ridiculous because the eBay standard envelopes people just take advantage of the fact that when the post service has it, they don’t scan it as delivered. So what am I supposed to do when my customers that I sell cards to say they never received the card and it was already confirmed to be with the Postal Service? We’re having a bunch of people just saying that and they do NOT have the cards that’s the thing so then I have to refund them and then I have to get a refund from eBay for the $20 protection of the card getting “lost in the mail” This is systematically broken.

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  Jim Liu (@jiahanjimliu) reported 27 minutes ago

  $ASTS / $IREN: Timing of Dilution Many great operators do not time the market and their timing eventually averages out. In fact, many great businesses get their opportunity in an in recession when incumbents get shaken up and dilute despite low market conditions. 1. Amazon, Bookings, eBay, Apple (Jobs round 2) diluted significantly in 2001 2. Tesla diluted significantly in 2009. Ford, BOA, Citigroup diluted to survive during this time and made spectacular returns off the bottom. Bezos, Musk, Jobs were the greatest operators of our times. Not saying AST or IREN is Bezos, Musk, Jobs level but even the greatest operators aren’t able to dilute when stock is at ATH because opportunities and crisis occur when stock or overall market is down which is when dilution is most needed. Dilution is infuriating during down times but looking back even some of the greatest operators do it.

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  🐐 (@SportsNoBS) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Schwartzcards2 @eBay Looks like eBay's edge/CDN layer (WAF or bot-protection) is misconfigured or mid-deployment. I think its blocking legitimate traffic with a blanket 403 forbidden error, rather than the origin servers actually being down.

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  BowTiedBroke (@BowTiedBroke) reported 30 minutes ago

  I've tried to be straight with you guys. My pest control days, my side hustle Amazon biz that turned into a multi million dollar biz, my Airbnb biz that turned into a construction company. But I need to be upfront once again...it is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to make money on Amazon anymore for small third party sellers. The good ole days of easy flips on Amazon are now long gone. I started flipping crap on Ebay in 2006. Toys, auto parts, oil of olay creams (don't ask). That morphed into Amazon by 2012. 2012 - 2022 were the glory days. Around 25-30% fees on each sale from Amazon meant you could buy an item to flip for $20, sell it for $50 on Amazon and still have a good return. Repeat that times thousands of transactions per year and it was a nice little side hustle that helped me walk away from my corporate job. But with any publicly traded company, they often find ways to start to nickel and dime you to no end. Then, with the influx of Chinese sellers that I wrote about below (even got a response from Elon on that one), it's just become a bear of a place to make any money in. Prior to 2023, my rule of thumb was that an item needed to sell for 2.5X what I paid for it to be worth my while (time wise) to do all the work necessary for the profit (research, buying, sourcing, bagging, barcoding, shipping off to a Amazon fulfillment center...yes it's a lot of work). Now, it's almost to the point where the item needs to sell for 5X what was paid for it to be worth your while to sell on Amazon. As you can see from this screengrab of one particular item I sell Amazon now grabs nearly 50% of my revenue with their "Fees". Granted, in 2012 this was around 25% in total fees. In 2020 yrs it hit around 37%, but now, they’ve just added so many superfluous fees which whittle away at any potential profit a third party seller can make. And keep in mind this screenshot doesn’t even have a returned item, which now proliferates the site (Buyers purchase an item, it gets delivered, they take it out of the box, do a return via Amazon but put some old broken item in the box claiming that’s what came, send the said item back and keep your new item..and Amazon refunds them from your account). A single return like that on a high dollar item will just crush your margins. A few years ago I recommended starting a side hustle with amazon. Today, I don’t recommend it AT ALL. Sure, it can be done, but looking at how the landscape has changed and the number of sellers from China that have infiltrated the site as I outlined in the below post, it’s just not even worth attempting at this point.

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  katya (beastmode) (@kaworunag1sa) reported 32 minutes ago

  randomly remembering the time i bought a copy of pokemon platinum from ebay…. and the guy sent it in an envelope……. it arrived broken………

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  Algofinix Inc (@algofinixai) reported 35 minutes ago

  🚨 EBay appears to be experiencing technical issues, with users reporting problems on Downdetector Pressure: $EBAY | Strong (3/10) Why it matters: EBay's reported technical outage risks immediate transaction losses and user attrition to competitors like Amazon or Etsy at a time when the company is trying to stabilize its marketplace model post-pandemic. Any sustained disruption could weigh on near-term revenue and reinforce investor skepticism around operational execution, exerting short-term downward pressure on the stock. Shareholders and active marketplace participants are most directly exposed while broader e-commerce sentiment may also soften Follow @algofinixai for real-time sentiment · #algofinixai

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  RiftboundGG (@RiftboundGG) reported 35 minutes ago

  @poke_maam Yeah it wasn't an Ebay issue it was a PSA lied to ebay issue. Unfortunately Ebay treats them as if they are actually a professional organization and takes their word as final. Generally my Ebay experiences have been good otherwise.

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  OJ - PlayerEssence (@PlayerEssence) reported 35 minutes ago

  @iRue399 GameStop is a terrible place to shop for games, that's the funny part. plenty of people rather buy physical games from offer up, ebay or other places.

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  Robert Keyes (@Robert_of_Maine) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Blackwellboy Only the latest installment in the big scam that is amazon & ebay. This places, and the scammers they support, should be shut down. Sorry you had to go through it.

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  Tango (@tango4748) reported 43 minutes ago

  @ValveGUI Some bullshit. I bought a broken one to try and hunt down the right side daughter board, but they’re charging way too much for it individually. I just listed my **** and sold it at a bit of a loss on eBay. Prefer my ally z1 anyways.

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  Pearl.com (@Pearldotcom) reported 46 minutes ago

  @StevBuilds we have over 20,000 credentialed humans verifying AI work in high stake verticals such as law, medicine, and even down to mechanics/cars. eBay motors trust us :)

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  Bohdan | Gamma Prime (@B_GammaPrime) reported 46 minutes ago

  In 2010, two Irish brothers founded Stripe to build what PayPal should have been. Yesterday, Stripe offered $53 billion to buy PayPal itself. Together with Advent International, Stripe tabled $60.50 per share - a 28% premium. PayPal jumped 19% on the news. The board hasn't answered yet. Sit with the numbers for a second. In July 2021, PayPal was worth $360 billion. It was the undisputed king of online payments - the company that built the category, the alumni network that produced Musk, Thiel, and half of Silicon Valley's founding class. The "PayPal mafia" became shorthand for tech royalty. This year, its market value touched $36 billion. Ninety percent - gone in under five years. Not because payments shrank. Payments exploded. PayPal lost the decade to faster checkout flows, embedded finance, and a developer-first competitor that simply out-built it. In February, PayPal's market value fell below eBay's - the company it was spun out of in 2015. The child became worth less than the parent it outgrew. And now the offer on the table is $53 billion. Roughly 15 cents on the peak dollar. Here's what makes this bid remarkable beyond the symbolism. Stripe never went public. While PayPal spent a decade being repriced, quarter by quarter, by a market that punished every stumble, Stripe stayed private, took the long view, and compounded quietly. Now the private challenger - teamed with private equity - proposes to take the public pioneer off the market entirely. If that playbook sounds familiar, it should. It's Dell, 2013: a fallen public giant, a buyer convinced the problems are fixable away from the quarterly spotlight, and shareholders being offered a premium to today's price that is also a fraction of yesterday's. Dell's take-private turned $1.8 billion into $15 billion. It's the most profitable tech buyout in history. Whether PayPal has a Dell inside it is the entire question. So if you're a PayPal shareholder, here's your choice: $60.50 in cash - 28% above yesterday, 80% below 2021. Take the money, or bet the turnaround?

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  anoop (@AnoopLa05812303) reported 47 minutes ago

  eBay appears to be experiencing technical issues, with users reporting problems on Downdetector. #EBAY

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  Scott Shapiro (@ScottShapiroUXD) reported 47 minutes ago

  yesterday i used Seedance to generate AI models for eBay product listings. clothes on AI-generated bodies. clean shots, good lighting, no photographer needed. it worked. really well actually. and then i sat with it for a minute. because there's a line here that nobody's drawing clearly. when does AI-generated product imagery cross from useful shortcut to something that erodes trust in what you're actually buying? i spent years as a UX designer before i started building AI tools. the core principle that stuck with me: users make decisions based on what the interface tells them is real. if the interface doesn't distinguish between a photo and a generation, the user can't either. now i'm deep in Claude Code loop engineering. designing agent workflows where the AI decides what to do next without asking me. every loop needs a visible checkpoint where the user can see what happened and why. that's the design problem. the safety conversation needs more people who've actually built those checkpoints, because right now the trust layer is getting designed by people who've never watched a user stare at an AI output and wonder if it's real.

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  Lodoghir (@Lodoghir) reported 48 minutes ago

  @EdLudlow Ask why he famously said: "You won't find us talking a big game, making a bunch of lofty promises or telegraphing our strategy to the competition." And yet is now doing exactly that by shouting the ways eBay can fix the company. Is he overconfident? Or does he know something?

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  Aaron 🌪️ (@ROALY) reported 48 minutes ago

  @somilagrawal @janwhyy No, Indians have a high rate of abusing the return facility. This has wrecked the e-commerce industry in India by and large, almost no D2C selling through online have made consistent profit in India, marketplaces that facilitated C2C transaction like Ebay India have closed down.

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  Arcology Research (@ArcologyTech) reported 48 minutes ago

  @EagleZeroX Mid 2k Boomer convertibles and coupes for $10 - 15k out there. But yeah bushings going to be rotted out on that era. Jags with timing chain/cooling issues to fix from ebay parts... Leaf is a good hacker platform though and pretty cheap way to get off the oil-pipe.

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  Ross Brown (@Hey_ross) reported 55 minutes ago

  @dirtevader You don’t believe they’re impaired? Dead Goodwill on the balance sheet is a false asset that is often discounted heavily in acquisitions. I believe eBay has been committing accounting fraud by continuing to hold the Goodwill at a high level Impairing it and marking accurately, would create a more valid balance sheet and valuation for the company. The impact of the write down would reduce earnings substantially and reduced taxable income will not affect cash flow at all. The effect over a two year period is to increase cash flow while not increasing tax and creating a more accurately valued balance sheet. I would consider an imperative in an acquisition to do that.

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  Daily Dose Garage (@DailyDoseGarage) reported 57 minutes ago

  Somebody broke @eBay! Is Ebay down for you?

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  Filch (@__filch) reported 59 minutes ago

  Dude sends me one message I don’t like on eBay telling me to hurry up on his order I close the entire thing down and cancel orders for him and everyone else (5) Customer service skills suck, patience even worse **** flipping pokemon anyway - hodl

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  Sterling (@GreenShades9) reported 1 hour ago

  @LBPHeretic The 7a is coming from Google (I think), so perhaps the battery was changed? I'm going to go to uBreakiFix to inquire about a fix, otherwise I'll get another Pixel 5 from eBay. The one I have hasn't had any issues, aside from the power button and it's even smaller than the 10a.

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  First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) reported 1 hour ago

  eBay appears to be experiencing technical issues, with users reporting problems on Downdetector.