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 (61%)
• Sign in (23%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Oldenburg	Errors	6 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	6 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	12 hours ago
Brisbane	Errors	15 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	23 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  SWAT (@SWATZ911) reported 46 seconds ago

  @ALTPEPEEEEEEE I’m same way. Probably purchased 500 cards on eBay so far this year. I may have a problem.

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  Sam Hill (@sammyhill99) reported 51 seconds ago

  @MattInformed EBay recently did this as well. Give them your id, when they get hacked they'll tell you they regret the breach, and are work to remedy the problem.

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  TiamatRuler (Ibb) 🔜 WORLDS/XP (@TiamatRuler) reported 3 minutes ago

  @TheNavyCentral @Veezxvqk @SteeloAndKri At the very least, if Pokemon thinks they're stolen goods, they can reach out to WhatNot and tell them they have to crack down on the sale of stolen goods. Just like they did Ebay. But they have the idiot's face, they can do a LOT more than that.

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  Booger “Ted” McPillows (@BoogerTed) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Xbox_SUPERFAN Eh it was def bots / the limited supply, many eBay sellers know they can’t list a pre sale as it will get taken down. Xbox made a huge mistake marketing this so much to only release 25k units as well imo

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  Cody (@cody0xx) reported 3 minutes ago

  A Yale professor recorded one semester of game theory in 2007 that quietly explains how Google, eBay, and every ad exchange on earth pulls over $500 billion a year out of advertisers' pockets. Yale charges $86,000 a year to sit in that classroom. He put every lecture on Yale Open Courses in 2008 for free. Millions of people have watched. Almost no retail trader, founder, or negotiator has ever actually used the framework. His name is Ben Polak — Yale professor, former Provost of Yale, and one of the most-watched university lecturers in internet history. The 62-minute clip here is one lecture from ECON 159: Game Theory, taught to a packed auditorium of Yale undergrads in the fall of 2007. Over 24 lectures, Polak builds the entire mathematical foundation of strategic decision-making from the ground up. Dominant strategies. If one option beats every other option no matter what your opponent does, you take it — end of discussion. The reason the rest of game theory even exists is that dominant strategies almost never show up in real life. Nash equilibria. The point where nobody can improve their outcome by switching strategy on their own. Almost every price you've ever paid is a Nash equilibrium. Every wage negotiation, every auction bid, every trade in a market with millions of participants — it all converges to one, whether the people involved know it or not. Auctions. The mathematical difference between first-price sealed-bid, second-price sealed-bid, English ascending, and Dutch descending auctions is worth billions of dollars a year to whoever's running the auction. Google Ads runs on a modified second-price auction. eBay is an English ascending auction with proxy bidding baked in. Treasury bill sales run Dutch descending. Each format squeezes a different amount of value out of bidders — and almost none of them know which format they're actually playing. Evolutionary strategies. Why cooperation sometimes beats betrayal in games that repeat. Why the dead-simple tit-for-tat rule outperformed every sophisticated algorithm entered in Robert Axelrod's famous 1980 tournament. Why nearly every stable business relationship on earth, if you look closely, is just tit-for-tat wearing a suit. Every hedge fund pays entry-level quants specifically to walk in the door already knowing this. Every big tech company hires PhD game theorists just to design their pricing pages. Every major M&A negotiation gets priced by consultants who bill $2 million a deal to apply these exact same equations. Here's the first rule Polak teaches, every single semester, without fail: "Never play a strictly dominated strategy." He calls it the one rule game theory is completely certain about — zero exceptions. And retail traders break it constantly, every time they add to a losing position, because taking the loss feels worse in the moment than doubling down does. The lectures are free on Yale Open Courses. The 2007 problem sets and exams are still sitting online. Every equation Polak derives fits in under thirty pages of a textbook. The math costs nothing. Sitting through 24 hours of game theory before you open a bid box, a trading terminal, or walk into a negotiation — that's the rare part. Far rarer than the confidence to walk in without it.

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  Michael Anthony (@Michael45976936) reported 6 minutes ago

  @MikeStoklasa This was part of a promotional series of posters made well over 5 years ago. I only know this because I found them on ebay for each series and bought the ones for TNG, DS9 and Voyager because I loved the artwork...please don't leave us hanging though, what is your issue??

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  jonny randomseed (@DispairSoftware) reported 13 minutes ago

  @pugnacious_polk I have a x1 carbon i believe 5th gen i got on ebay. turns out its locked out of windows because it was stollen from some company out of Dubai (no wonder it was such a good deal). then an m710q and an m715q in my 10 inch server rack. considering getting another tiny

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  aaaaaaaaa (@aaaaaaaaa171039) reported 16 minutes ago

  @zebular0 Majority of paper gains from ebay that were evaluated in last earnings are erased, and that cash also no longer collect interest which was most of the cash flow. Btc is better, but still notably down from purchase so it wouldn't rebound

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  riju (@rijectionss) reported 17 minutes ago

  @nan03804207 i haven't tried selling on ebay but vinted is decent the only problem is finding boxes to pack stuff in n give away

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  Scott Nodine 🎥📷 (@TheNodine) reported 19 minutes ago

  @hdreport Yes, it's worth it. I found a Sony UBP-X700 at a thrift store the same as you, with no power cord or remote. For $6. Thankfully I had a working player and remote at home that I bought at retail that I could immediately test the thift find with. After running it though a series of tests, I found no issues, and ended up with a backup player. 👍 Because I like to have a complete backup solution, I ended up buying a new old stock OEM Sony power cord and original remote for the backup thifted player on eBay.

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  Mielikki (@isBlessedaWish) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ALTPEPEEEEEEE I completely understand your logic and reasoning. And have personally dealt with issues on overseas sales as a seller. In the end I feel eBay should allow an in person sales option. If you can afford 400k you can def afford economy to pick it up.

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 23 minutes ago

  The professor who designed America's health insurance system covering 330 million people teaches this class for free on YouTube. His students have gone on to advise governments, run hedge funds, and build policy at the World Bank. This is lecture 1. In 1776 Adam Smith asked why diamonds cost more than water. Water keeps you alive. Diamonds do not. The demand for water is enormous. The demand for diamonds is small. By any rational logic, water should cost more. He was wrong about what he was measuring. This is Jonathan Gruber, MIT 14.01, Microeconomics. The man who built the mathematical model behind Obamacare and Romneycare. The man who testified before Congress six times. He now teaches the most foundational idea in economics to anyone willing to watch. Smith's error was looking at only half the picture. He saw demand. He missed supply. Water is everywhere. Diamonds are rare. When supply is low enough, even something nobody needs can cost more than something everyone needs. That single insight became the foundation of every economic model ever built - and every career in finance, policy, and consulting that depends on it. He opens with opportunity cost. Every decision you make has a cost. Not just the money you spend. The thing you did not do instead. If you buy a rose for $3, you gave up a slice of pizza and a Coke. If the price rises to $4, the opportunity cost rises too. You want fewer. That is why demand curves slope downward. Not because of some law. Because of what you gave up. Then supply. A farm can grow roses or something else. When the price of roses is low, the farmer grows something else. When the price rises high enough, roses become the better choice. The opportunity cost of not growing roses becomes too high. That is why supply curves slope upward. Then the equilibrium. Two equations, two unknowns. Demand: quantity equals 1,800 minus 400 times price. Supply: quantity equals 200 times price. Set them equal. You get 600 roses at $3 each. At that price, buyers are willing to pay and sellers are willing to sell. The system has come to rest. Then the kidney on eBay. Someone auctioned one in the 1990s. Bidding reached $5 million before eBay shut it down. The positive question: why did the price get so high? Easy. Enormous demand, almost no supply. The normative question: should we be allowed to sell our organs? The market delivers the right quantity. It does not deliver fairness. Watch the moment he says economics is fundamentally a right-wing science. Then says he is a left-wing guy. Then explains why both things can be true at the same time. A policy analyst I know rewatched this before their first week at a government economics office. Said it was the first time supply and demand felt like a lens rather than a diagram. Free on YouTube, MIT OpenCourseWare, Creative Commons license. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every price you see will feel like a supply and demand equation waiting to be solved

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  DRichous (@DRichous) reported 27 minutes ago

  @XBOX @APlagueTale The plan for today? Step 1) Show up at 10 EST to buy the Xbox Series X25 Step 2) Add to cart and attempt to purchase Step 3) Error Step 4) Sold out (unless you buy on Ebay for 3x the price) Step 5) ????????????!!!!!!!!!?????? You'll figure it out

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  #TRUMPARMY2024🇺🇸 © (@TRUMPARMYISBACK) reported 28 minutes ago

  Cool beanz.. the seller (on eBay) sent me an offer I simply couldn’t refuse. I love these @PelicanProducts Vault V100’s for smaller (yet very expensive) things that you absolutely have to protect from the “elements. Especially a green one to differentiate between my bino’s and “other” items. I make a slit in the top piece of foam & stick a brand new 2nd Gen #Airtag in EVERY ONE I buy so if I misplace them or they get stolen.. I can track it down in a few clicks. I also buy the 20gram silica packs & stick two to three (4x in my ACSS scope box) to keep whatever’s inside nice & dry despite the Houston humidity. #ta

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  CacheCards (@CacheCards) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SakurasCardShop They shut down some eBay listings, so maybe they care a little, but overall yea they could easily shut down anyone bragging on social media. Tell the distributors not to sell to them, easy peasy.

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  Mike (@stackthesegains) reported 32 minutes ago

  @615gh0st It’s crazy how bad USPS has gotten. I’ve been buying lots of singles for my collection on eBay and tcgplayer and I’ve had so many issues lately. I’ve had to request refunds because some stuff never showed up.

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  ***** Kaperki (@carjdun) reported 34 minutes ago

  @SecretService On January 9 2013, Howard County MD, Agent Scott Windish and Agent Nick Jonte and 1 More agent came from Baltimore downtown Secret Service headquarters, blackmailed us saying that we will shut down your business account if you don’t give us the money in your bank account because of 2 stolen phones we purchased from eBay without any knowledge . Agent Scott Windish then opened my car glove box and took 3k cash and took my phone on the way to Wells Fargo and we waited at the Wells Fargo waiting for the teller in line for 10 min and he made me say the teller write a 39.000 dollars cashiers check under SECRET SERVICE and after they took me to STARBUCKS and made me sign paperworks… Need our money back 39k was seized as check , 3 k cash and 15 attorney fees .

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  GundamFan (@0Gundamfan2) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Saturday_Anime I have a similar issue i have so many options parts i might bag up and put on ebay

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  Reselling News (@resellingnews) reported 39 minutes ago

  eBay is removing leaked Pokémon 30th Anniversary listings after a request from The Pokémon Company. Listings are being taken down under eBay’s Stolen Property Policy, with sellers told not to relist unless they can prove the items came from an authorized source. One seller reportedly had an in-hand Sylveon SIR listing removed. How are these cards getting out this early?

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  Kyle Hessling (@KyleHessling1) reported 46 minutes ago

  @MikeBoscia As long as you've got enough PCIEx16 lanes, it is an attractive option for sure; old server racks built for these are surprisingly affordable on eBay! That said, make sure your total costs don't come close or exceed that of a newer similar alternative before pulling the trigger, I doubt it would. But it's worth paying close attention to!

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  xrtz.base.eth 📺🐂 (awoo arc) (@xrtzbase) reported 47 minutes ago

  The market has already voted: GME is down ~28% since the bid was floated in May, while eBay is up over that stretch. Investors clearly aren’t loving the “buy a company 5-6x your size” plan.

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  PnL Enthusiast (@TurtleNeckCap) reported 48 minutes ago

  Never thought I’d type this sentence out, but $GME looks like a buy here? Seems like Ryan Cohen turned the business around by leaning into collectibles. SG&A down massively, margins seeing huge improvements, trading at <6x EV/core earnings. Online providers show $4 bn EV but that doesn’t account for price gains on the EBAY shares, current EV is likely sub $3 bn now. Outcome will be dependent on their acquisition target but Cohen has proved he can operate the business well. He also changed the incentive structure so he doesn’t get paid out for just making an acquisition, which previously made me quite skeptical. Given that it’s a meme stock that’s chopped sideways for years now I wouldn’t be surprised to see retail that was sold try to chase price if it rallies.

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  Cards for Mom (@mikeinrecovery) reported 49 minutes ago

  @storyofthegoats I basically quit buying on eBay since they won't let you use American Express....I like to keep all my bills consolidated on one card...terrible that eBay couldn't eat a few bucks to have American Express as payment option

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  I Am (Still) Meatballs (@MeatballsRedux) reported 52 minutes ago

  @premiercards_2 I wonder if this is a timing issue. You made your offer, it was pending, an initial bid came in, and then the seller accepted the offer? I don't sell enough on eBay to know this, but do you know if a pending offer stays live after a bid has come in?

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  GeekyBoarders (@GeekyBoarders) reported 52 minutes ago

  As the undisputed sovereign ruler of Throat Goat Ethan Van Sciver's dwindling fans, I happily receive your apology, and throw in directly into the rubbish bin where it belongs with all your other lies and broken promises. As Ethan's version of comicsgate continues its RAPID DECLINE. We have a message here from the slimeball himself. This reads as a declaration of TOTAL DEFEAT. Ethan has spent the last decade plus making excuses and and ignoring his every-growing laundry list of late and unfulfilled projects. He has treated his "fans" like absolute garbage. An endless money cow that he can wring dry and whip if the dare question him for being late. Now he stands in a situation where his word cannot be trusted. He has lied too many times, he has turned on too many fans for demanding him to be even a a modicum of the "professional" he always claims to be. These words ring as hollow as his fat rotting gourd head. To use a word that Ethan himself used to use ironically, and now describes as "hibbity jibbity", the least two years have humbled Ethan. In 2025 he watched comicsgate 's decline hit an acceleration point and start hemorrhaging money at a rate like never before. At the end of the year Ethan declared that he was "limping". Ethan and his zeros hoped that 2026 would being a revival of comicsgate, now, 9 months into the year, that revival has not manifested. In fact, comicsgate went from the freefall of 2025, to hitting the ground and splattering in 2026. Money has dried up from all sources. Ethan has been reduced to juggling MULTIPLE penny ante moneymaking schemes to suckle the last few dribbles of cash out of the corpse of what was comicsgate. eBay, begging for superchats, doing commissions for table scraps, opening epanhadling ko-fi page, selling "prints", he is trying every flim-flam he can manage. Saggy Face Shane Davis's BackDoorMeBro was supposed to be the saving grace for Ethan. And it has turned out to be yet enough unmitigated disaster. Last year Ethan had his first cyberfrog book campaign that failed to reach 100k in 24 hours, taking a week to reach 100k. This year Ethan is looking at his first Cyberfrog book campaign that has failed to earn $100k in a week. And there are no signs that the bleeding will stop. Now that he had BlackedMeBro Ethan's plan is to further devalue to the Cyberfrog property by pumping out bilge slop. More campaigns for worthless spin-off books. The value of Cyberfrog as a franchise is shot any excitement that once surrounded the 2018 revival is long dead between delays, Ethan's behavior in comicsgate, and now the slop-pumping.

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  Dutch Tender Guy (@dutchtenderguy) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bb26115 Showing the world just how many shares we’d have to issue to buy eBay would destroy our stock price

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  TullyNotes (@fantony_francis) reported 53 minutes ago

  @GeniusGTX Everybody says the same stupid things. Passion, strategy, edge... scale marketing Meanwhile, success sometimes comes down to simple luck, timing, or random events. Or buying 10 houses in NY back in 2015 This fat slob- an Epstein sleepover and Soros lover- lucked out by being with a much smarter Peter T. and sold PayPal to eBay for 1.5B. In 02. Once in a lifetime.

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  LSTNSCRFN (@LsTdiecast) reported 58 minutes ago

  Update…. You might wanna sell customs privately altogether NASCAR is going door to door shutting down people’s eBay accounts for selling customs.

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  Bargain Sports Collectibles (@bargainsportsco) reported 58 minutes ago

  Update person still accepted the card. Listen I get why eBay authentication is needed. But, this was just annoying. They referenced “surface” issues with the slab… like what… it’s a slab

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  Karl (@MHFulltimer) reported 59 minutes ago

  @seizuresalad That is why I have stopped all streaming services and the TV licence (UK). I now buy DVD/BluRay and rip to my own media server. I ended up buying two pallets of DVDs from a charity clearance firm with over 7000 DVDs. took a while to sort them out and dispose of the ones I didn't want but my viewing for the next decade or two is sorted. I do still buy odd films and DVD box sets off ebay. I prefer to own not rely on streaming services these days. I was halfway through a season and it got pulled due to licensing issues. That was the final straw. The downside is I cannot take part in conversations about new releases but that is a small price to pay.