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 (24%)
• Errors (15%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Friedrichsdorf	Sign in	13 minutes ago
Manchester	Website Down	31 minutes ago
Manchester	Website Down	20 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Ocala	Errors	1 day ago
Manchester	Website Down	2 days ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Zac $chafer (@Zac_Schafer) reported 1 minute ago

  @preacherman3424 @eBay I’ve had the same tape issue now too. Can’t wait til it ruins a card.

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  Dram McCloudigan (@dreamcloudigan) reported 2 minutes ago

  @evan12286 @jake2b Damn, so picture this at the water cooler: some dude on X is freaking out that GameStop shareholders would never vote to take the company private because of all the dilution and those mythical naked shorts. Then another guy fires back, “Bro, only the *registered* shares get to vote. If your broker was just handing out IOUs instead of actual stock, that’s *their* problem—not GameStop’s. The real owners will just rubber-stamp the private deal.” You’re over there nodding like, “Yeah, that tracks. It’s basically voter ID for stocks. Show up with the real certificate or sit down.” And then the boring-but-true legal reality drops: the company literally only looks at its own official list. Street-name shares get to whisper their votes through the broker, but if the broker overpromised, the company just shrugs and counts what’s on the books. Delaware law basically says “not our circus.” Meanwhile the stock just got diluted by a $1.4 billion debt-for-equity swap yesterday and everyone’s still arguing about eBay, so the whole “take it private” thing is pure speculative chaos… but the “only real shares vote” part? Straight-up common sense dressed in a suit.

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  let me check my palm pilot (@K_Why_C) reported 3 minutes ago

  @GOODBROTHERLYZM @Slangdini These tweets made me search it up. All you can find are snips of the article. There are issues on eBay. they even cut the link to the interview. it’s “unable to load”

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  succulent mango (@DeepFried_Mango) reported 5 minutes ago

  @toyot_yars When I went over there in February the prices were pretty decent even in AmiAmi and especially in Sapporo. I think it’s just an eBay/online scalping issue

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  DK going to BK (@rkansas) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Banano4u2 @magsonthemoon Shows as liability on financials. The TD letter opinion on raising 20B was based on the combined gme and ebay to be able to issue investment grade bonds.

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  dj morrow (@boolymonfan) reported 10 minutes ago

  @daparty250 If you don’t have money like me just pull the eBay diesel and rock revival method it never lets me down

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  Quist (@bakdotdev) reported 10 minutes ago

  @LuisBizarro I don’t understand how these legacy companies are still alive. Every time I even try to login to eBay, it gives me so much friction where I just give up and close the tab. Every PayPal account I’ve had has been hacked.

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  doodlifts (@doodlifts) reported 11 minutes ago

  @seyong Imagine if everyone on the planet tried to sell their beanie babies into the available eBay offers at the same time. Understandably, there isn’t enough money to fulfill all those offers. So the fastest to do it will get the full price offers, then the rest will get the 2nd and third rate offers, this can continue until there is no money left. Luckily the bigger the market, the less of a problem this is, you can sell thousand of pokemon cards on eBay and have no effect on the “price” because there are so many bids on eBay. But with something more niche or new like fine art or an up and coming collectible, one sale can change the whole market, for better or worse!

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  Bendo (@TTBENDO) reported 17 minutes ago

  @eBay permanently suspended my account after I shipped out a sale. 1) No reason given other than security concern 2)No TOS broken 3) Agent hung up the call on me after confirming my identity and telling me nothing can be done I got suspended for being legit?

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  kungfuflu (@forgottenwildc) reported 18 minutes ago

  The Christmas That Changed the Way We Shop Christmas 2026 may become the dividing line between the old internet and the new one. Before this Christmas, we searched for products ourselves. We opened a dozen browser tabs, compared prices, read reviews, searched for coupons and tried to decide whether the five-star toaster was wonderful or merely supported by a very energetic marketing department. After this Christmas, more of that work may be handed to AI. The shopping agent will not completely take over Christmas. It probably will not independently select every present, drain your checking account and explain afterward that everyone in the family needed matching electric bicycles. But millions of people are likely to let an AI agent perform at least part of their holiday shopping. That could include finding products, comparing prices, watching for discounts, assembling carts and, in some cases, completing purchases. The Pieces Are Already in Place This is no longer just a collection of impressive demonstrations. Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping can compare products, track prices, reorder household items and perform scheduled shopping tasks. A customer can establish conditions such as buying an item when its price falls below a certain amount. Amazon’s “Buy for Me” feature goes even further. When Amazon does not sell an item, its agent can purchase it from a participating brand’s outside website on the customer’s behalf. The customer still reviews the purchase, but the agent performs the work of completing the transaction. Google is building similar capabilities into Search and Gemini. Its Universal Commerce Protocol is designed to give AI agents a common way to communicate with retailers, payment companies and shopping platforms. The list of companies supporting Google’s effort is not small. It includes Shopify, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Wayfair, Best Buy, Home Depot, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe. When that many enormous companies begin building the same plumbing, it is usually a sign that someone expects water to start flowing through it. Visa Is Preparing for Millions of AI Purchases The clearest prediction comes from Visa. Visa reported that its partners had already completed hundreds of controlled, real-world transactions initiated by AI agents. The company predicts that millions of consumers will use AI agents to complete purchases during the 2026 holiday season. That does not mean millions of people will turn over their credit cards and tell a robot to “handle Christmas.” The more likely experience will be supervised automation. The agent searches, compares, monitors and prepares the purchase. The person gives final approval before the money moves. That may sound like a small difference from ordinary online shopping, but it changes where the real work occurs. Instead of searching Amazon for “best cordless drill under $100,” opening several listings and reading conflicting reviews, a shopper could say: Find a reliable cordless drill under $100 for someone who does occasional home repairs. Avoid professional models, check the recent reviews and tell me if the current price is actually a sale. The agent could then narrow hundreds of products to three serious choices. It might monitor the preferred model and buy it—or ask permission to buy it—when the price drops. The customer is no longer searching the store. The agent is searching the market. ChatGPT Is Taking a Slightly Different Road ChatGPT shopping is already live in the United States. It can search for products visually, compare choices and tailor its recommendations to a shopper’s stated preferences. OpenAI also says Shopify and Etsy catalogs are already integrated into its shopping system. Individual Shopify merchants do not need to construct a separate OpenAI connection merely to have their products considered for discovery. However, OpenAI recently moved away from making its original Instant Checkout system the center of the experience. Most shoppers will be directed into the merchant’s own checkout system, although companies such as Walmart can build deeper shopping experiences inside ChatGPT. That change is revealing. Finding the right product with AI is becoming practical very quickly. Completing purchases across thousands of unrelated websites is harder. Every merchant has different shipping choices, return policies, inventory systems, taxes, discount codes and payment requirements. AI can understand a request in plain English, but it still has to communicate with online stores built over roughly three decades. The intelligence is largely ready. The plumbing is still being installed. What Christmas 2026 Will Probably Look Like The most likely outcome is a mixed shopping season. AI should be very good at: Finding products that match detailed requirements Comparing specifications and recent prices Summarizing customer reviews Suggesting gifts based on someone’s interests Watching for price reductions Notifying shoppers when an item returns to stock Building shopping lists and carts Reordering familiar products Completing purchases through supported retailers It will probably remain less dependable when dealing with obscure websites, complicated product variations, unusual shipping requirements and merchants that have not connected their systems to the new agentic-commerce standards. In other words, the first mass-market shopping agents will resemble very capable assistants—not independent financial decision-makers. The human will still hold the leash. Why This Matters to Small Sellers For small online merchants, this could change product discovery almost as much as Google changed it during the early internet era. Traditional search engines depend heavily on keywords. Shopping agents attempt to understand the shopper’s actual intention. A person may not search for an exact product title. They might ask: Find an unusual railroad gift under $30 for a collector who already owns most of the common books. Or: Find a funny novelty license plate for a garage wall. I want something unusual, not a mass-produced motivational sign. An AI agent could search descriptions, images, prices, shipping information and customer requirements simultaneously. That gives small merchants an opportunity. A unique item from an independent seller can compete with a mass-produced item from a large retailer—provided the agent can understand what the item is. Accurate titles, clear descriptions, good photographs, correct dimensions and current inventory will become increasingly important. Product listings will have two audiences: the human buyer and the AI representing that buyer. Poorly written listings may become almost invisible, even if the item itself is excellent. AI cannot recommend what it cannot confidently identify. For Shopify merchants, the change may arrive relatively quickly because Shopify’s catalog is already connected to ChatGPT’s product-discovery system. That does not guarantee that every product will appear, but it gives millions of small businesses an entrance into this new market without requiring them to build their own AI infrastructure. eBay sellers should watch this closely as well. Used, vintage and one-of-a-kind merchandise is more difficult for agents to categorize than standardized new products. However, those are precisely the purchases where a capable agent could be most valuable. Finding a common toaster is easy. Finding a particular railroad timetable, vintage catalog or discontinued piece of clothing in the correct size is where intelligent searching could shine. The First Agentic Christmas Shopping agents will not dominate Christmas 2026. Most purchases will still be made through conventional websites and apps. But this could be the first Christmas when agent-assisted purchasing becomes visible to ordinary consumers. People will ask AI what to buy. They will allow it to search across stores. They will rely on it to judge reviews and compare prices. Some will permit it to complete transactions within carefully established limits. If those experiences work reasonably well, consumer habits could change quickly. Once someone discovers that an AI can search 40 retailers, compare the serious choices and monitor prices while they do something else, returning to ten browser tabs may feel surprisingly primitive. The agents will make mistakes. Prices will occasionally be outdated. Product details will be misunderstood. Deliveries and returns will expose weaknesses that controlled demonstrations did not reveal. Those problems will slow adoption, but they probably will not stop it. The underlying shift is already underway. Amazon has working purchasing agents. Google is building common retail standards. OpenAI is connecting merchant catalogs to ChatGPT. Payment networks are creating secure credentials that allow authorized agents to spend money without receiving unlimited access to a customer’s account. Christmas 2026 will not be the Christmas when AI completely takes over shopping. It may be more important than that. It could be the Christmas when people decide they no longer want to shop alone. Sources OpenAI: Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT OpenAI: Product Discovery for Merchants Amazon: How “Buy for Me” Works Google: New Tools for the Agentic Shopping Era Visa: Agent-Initiated Transactions and Its 2026 Holiday Prediction

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  Bitcoinization (@bitcoin1zation) reported 23 minutes ago

  6 easy steps to cold-storage: 1 - Buy an old laptop on Ebay 2 - Remove the hard drive and boot Tails with a pendrive 3 - Create BIP38 key pairs without connecting to the internet 4 - Print the keys 5 - Destroy the printer and the laptop 6 - Burn your house down BTC is safu now!

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  ☆ Dark_star ☆🇺🇲 (@Dark_Prince078) reported 26 minutes ago

  The silence isn’t random. It’s coordinated.While Cohen quietly stacks eBay shares to nearly 10% and refuses to back down, Kitty stays completely dark… no YOLO updates, no memes, no livestreams. Exactly when the biggest play in GameStop history is unfolding.They’re waiting. $GME

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  James ✝️🇺🇸 (@wjamesawill) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ThatRayShow @Heather27207971 I do get stuff from eBay on occasion, but I rarely think of it. Never had a problem.

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  RobsRips (@RobsRips) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SEScards my ebay is fine printed one today still having issues with pirate ship but haven’t made a new one yet have to tomorrow will report back🫡

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  auburn35 (@35auburn) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Ay2G @bourassa_kyle @eBay I posted a public thread that highlights some of the issues and things to check. If you compare against a known good example, you'll see several differences.

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  0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reported 33 minutes ago

  A $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.

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  Thomas James (@rocky7586) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Derceto00 @2_Old_4_Gaming @RetroGamer_Daz Why do y'all say this? Where is it a rental? Please show me where a game has been completely removed after a certain amount of time from someone's library? It's NOT a rental! You are buying a license! That license CAN be revoked but so can your driver's license. Does that mean you're only renting your car if you break the law and they take away your license to drive? No. You are the owner of that license along with the publishers that you acquired it from. That agreement WILL NOT BREAK as long as you don't break any of the TOS. even if they close down forever. You still get to keep your games. I'm sick of reading this rental nonsense because it's simply not true and not how this works. "but what about the 500 movies Sony took!" Movies are not games! Movies you get from a third party EXPLICITLY tells you that YOU DON'T OWN THIS! What you're buying is a license to view it from that third party as long as THEY have their license to carry that movie renewed. There's never a time you can show me in the EULA for games where they can just arbitrarily take games from you and that you're only renting them. It doesn't state that. Movies have licensing agreements in place with platforms like Fandango, Apple Store, Google Play Store, Movies Anywhere, etc, where they can carry those movies on your behalf as you buy the license to watch them on those platforms. The EULA explicitly says this to you. The ONLY way a digital movie is yours forever is if you bought it first hand from the studios that made it. That means when you purchase a movie from their own website, the DVDs and Blu-ray codes that come in the boxes, or they gave you a code to use directly. You still watch them on those platforms but if one of those platforms ever shut down? They are obligated to move your collection over to another "locker", which is what they call it in the EULA, OR give you the ability to download the movies so you keep them forever. They HAVE to do this as it is in their EULA and that's what they agreed on with you as the purchaser. Games? They don't have limited licenses like that, typically. You'll run into a licensed game from Marvel or DC or Star Trek, Nickelodeon, or licensed music, etc, and those games have limited licenses physically and digitally. That's why a lot of those games get delisted or they have to remove the music just like GTA had to do a few years ago. Delisting doesn't mean you can't play what you've bought though. That's what I need people to understand. Delisting is not de-platforming. It's not the same thing. I have purchased delisted games since 2017 and they are still ready for me to play digitally. You keep them. They just aren't available for purchase for anyone else that may want them digitally. Physical games get delisted and moved from store shelves all the time too. Deadpool is a great example of a game no longer in regular circulation and you can only really find it used for high prices on eBay. Effectively that game is out of commission because of that physically. Digitally? You can still play it if you bought it before they delisted it. It's not gone forever. It's there. I hope you really take time out to read all of this and try to understand that You've been misinformed on this stuff and that digital gaming is not what you've been thinking. There's some drawbacks just like there will be with physical games. The true issue needing addressing with all digital platform is the refund, trade, and selling policies that Sony has to change up. They will have to change them to match Steam because that's their direct competition now. I do think they will announce changes to those soon.

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  Jeff (@JeffSendsIt) reported 37 minutes ago

  Off Amazon sales still pitiful. 99.5% still flowing through Amazon. Almost $6k on Walmart, $4.7k on ebay and $3k Retail store. Hit $10k in June on Walmart but top seller had a stocking issue so faded this month. Will be looking to move some more brand direct accounts over in the upcoming months and try to push towards $25k Ebay seems a decent range. We are moving a lot of our death pile over to a live selling service provider so interested to see how that plays out.

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  doughman (@sanpapa0425) reported 38 minutes ago

  Was looking on eBay for parts and I see a listing of this model with both its knees broken the same way 😭

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  Alex Strand (@1ev_guy) reported 41 minutes ago

  @eBay please be very cautious selling on eBay! They do not care about sellers! They hold money for weeks (presumably to make interest) under the guise of a zip code issue at delivery. I have confirmation thru their msg system that buyer has his item. Still will not release funds.

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  Dice (@honeydice_) reported 42 minutes ago

  Man said something important here. "Sold comps." The biggest reason people think eBay is slow or doesn't work is because they price where they see active listings priced. Too many factors to blindly list against another sellers price. Takes 2 secs to check the sales, dates, and prices. All 3 are important. That's the ONLY way to source and list on eBay. Search page listings tells you nothing. Do this and you'll realize OA on eBay is not only easy but a no brainer addition to your reselling biz.

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  Joe A (@aceofcards89) reported 43 minutes ago

  I was just thinking about this today. If you take a 5-10 year horizon, where would you want to put your money? - Vintage? I think it's risky. I'll go so far as to say even big names like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays will start to fade. - Definitely not ultra-modern. Don't chase the new "color blast" or whatever every year. Wouldn't touch Topps Dynasty, which seems to be popular. - GOAT market is at all time highs and feels frothy to me. ------------- For me the play is simple, buy cool cards! People want unique cards (no base, no random parallels, but also no "case hits"). I'm talking image variations, autos (on-card), the kind of cards where you pull up eBay and you can't find any available. -------------- Cash might be the play. Take a little risk off the table and be ready to come back when (IF) things calm down. Sealed wax is a play if you can keep it sealed and know how to sell it (not for me). I do think the 2005-2015ish era is a little undervalued. A lot of big cards in that era that are entering HOF eligibility.

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 43 minutes ago

  @HoneybadgerNo1 @eBay @depop Just for clarity, this item didn't actually go through an eBay authentication facility before delivery to you, right? I don't see the Authenticity Guarantee symbol & it's below the price threshold. It looks to me like it was just a regular listing, which eBay did not initially flag, allowing you to purchase it - then when you relisted the same item, eBay's AI systems flagged it as counterfeit & took it down. That wouldn't have anything to do with eBay Authentication, but it definitely does still show that eBay's AI sucks.

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  steve campbell (@steve_campbell) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Juan_type1 @eBay RISKY when it's a 1/1 I'd rather they didn't even authenticate it @eBay you need to fix this ASAP

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  WildcatsJoe14 (@TitansUK14) reported 53 minutes ago

  Very disappointed with @eBay for their lack of customer service on resolving issues. Holding $3,200 of my money, and no one will explain why my account is restricted, been selling on their platform 17 years. Per Google this is happening to others as well. Embarrassing

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  Ryan McHargue (@ryanmcharguee) reported 54 minutes ago

  I turned 25 last month. Damn near UNC status. Mostly proud I never quit. My origin story: > nearly quit middle school as the "fat kid" > notice patterns of chronic alcohol and drug use > discover manufacturing from my stepdad > relearn grammar freshman year of high school > find out college is even an option > talk my way into an MIT program > start an IoT startup for enterprise > fail hard > sell fidget spinners at 16 > take the SAT 6 times > first $20K/eBay top seller > fail harder > start college with a 1.9 GPA > file to drop out, can't commit > quit my job, start a hardware company in Berkeley > $0 to $100K MRR in 60 days > partner steals $70K/misfiles taxes > graduate with honors > big tobacco shuts me down, refuse to let go > start a CPG company in Iceland > FDA blocks US import/destorys inventory > move to Miami > start 5 more ventures to cover the losses > eviction notice from landlord > rejected from YC > crash out, take a job in SF > go chronically online, learn distribution > quit the job, drive cross country > reboot the smoking cessation company > big no from pharma again > start slinging agents with @coopwrenn > investors quickly notice and waitlist full > lets go one more Looking back, I can't even remember beating myself up over any of it. Just kept moving. It was never about the biggest tower in town. It's about putting a smile on the 10-year-old version of yourself. The only answer is build better ****. No way around it. Drop your origin story below

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  Proto (@scottloft) reported 55 minutes ago

  Views on my ebay items have been stagnant for weeks. Does anyone else find this to be a common issue? I have an ebay store and before i opened it my view count seemed to be way higher

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  steve campbell (@steve_campbell) reported 55 minutes ago

  @nortycards @eBay @PSAcard Everybody is having this issue - I have been for over a year now and have finally had enough!

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  Kai (@kai_xbt) reported 59 minutes ago

  Gary Vee explains why 3 to 4 NFT projects will end up being the Jackson Pollocks of the 2021 era "When internet stocks came out in 2000, everything was worth a trillion dollars even if the company did zero revenue. Then April 2000 hit and all of it went to zero, companies going from $500 a share to three cents. But the handful that were legit, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, got dragged down to $3 and then went on to become some of the biggest companies in the world." "NFTs are the exact same thing. Everyone got confused and thought all of them were worth a million dollars, when most are worth nothing, just like trading cards. But there will be 3 to 4 to 7 projects from that 2021 era that in 20 years are the Jackson Pollocks and the Andy Warhols. The only question is whether you're good enough to pick the winners."

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  Valkyrie Honeybadger (@HoneybadgerNo1) reported 59 minutes ago

  @eBay @depop eBay Authenticity Guarantee returned my $615.60 luxury purse crushed inside a box far too small for it Box size was 7×12×5 Purse size was 9×12.5×3. The item left my location undamaged and it passed outbound authentication to the buyer. The buyer decided they change heir mind and went back to eBay Authentication. eBay Authentication stated the item was the same as went it sent it. However, it came back destroyed from eBay Authentication becasue they stuffed it in a box too small for the purse. Their own policy says they cover damage at the authentication facility. Their response? Offer 50% and tell me to fix the purse they damaged by “stuffing it, reshape the leather, put on some conditioner and brush it out.” I’ve sold vintage leather for 20+ years. Structured 25-year-old vintage leather does not "stuff, reshape and simply buff" out after being smashed. This is the real problem: when eBay’s process causes the damage, the platform’s cheapest move is to push the time, cost, and labor back onto the seller. Most people give up. That is why sellers keep spending their time fixing problems eBay created. The first photo of this purse is what it look like when I shipped it out. The other three photos is what the purse looked like after eBay Authentication smashed it in a box that was far too small for the purse and then sent it back to me.