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 (50%)
• Sign in (31%)
• Errors (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Coatesville	Errors	4 hours ago
Ashburn	Website Down	4 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	5 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	10 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	11 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	16 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Small Feet Big Heat (@SmallFeetHeat) reported 6 minutes ago

  Things like this come with the territory of buying sneakers and the occasional selling. Just seems like I’m having an issue more and more with GOAT. Think I’ll give them a break and turn to Stock X and EBay for a while.

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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 6 minutes ago

  @MrJdotETH @ryancohen Scammers and bad sellers are the biggest problem on eBay right now. The hope is GameStop's ownership would actually prioritize trust over fee extraction. A marketplace that vets sellers and takes a cut only on closed deals would solve both problems at once.

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  Enkhmanal 🟠 (@Enkhmanal) reported 6 minutes ago

  eBay Just Rejected GameStop's $56 Billion Bid As 'Neither Credible Nor Attractive' — Ryan Cohen's Most Audacious Move Got Slapped Down In Public eBay's board just publicly rejected GameStop's $56 billion takeover bid in the most dismissive language possible. Chairman Paul Pressler issued a statement Tuesday that the offer is "neither credible nor attractive" and that eBay's board is "confident the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth." That is corporate-speak for "go away." For anyone who has not been following this saga, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen — the meme-stock-era folk hero who became GameStop's largest shareholder and turned the dying video game retailer into a $12 billion crypto-and-Bitcoin treasury vehicle — bid last week to acquire eBay for $56 billion. The bid was half-cash, half-stock, backed by a $20 billion debt financing commitment from TD Bank. The bid was approximately 4x GameStop's own market cap. Why this bid never made sense on paper The proposal had problems from day one. Let me lay out the math. GameStop's market cap is around $12 billion. eBay's is around $54 billion (down to $51 billion after Tuesday's announcement). For GameStop to acquire eBay at $56 billion, it would need to either: • Raise something close to $30 billion of debt against the combined company • Dilute GameStop shareholders to roughly 25% of the combined entity • Or both The TD Bank financing commitment was $20 billion — meaningful, but only a third of the deal value. The rest of the financing was theoretical. eBay's CEO Jamie Iannone has actually been running a real turnaround. Since he took the position six years ago, eBay's stock has returned 201%. The company has reinvented its category-specific verticals (collectibles, sneakers, refurbished electronics), launched payment products, and improved seller economics. eBay shareholders have done well under current management. The board has zero incentive to entertain a bid from a smaller, more speculative company unless the price is extraordinarily compelling. $56 billion was not. What Ryan Cohen was actually doing Cohen is one of the most interesting capital allocators in the public markets right now. He spent the last five years transforming GameStop from a brick-and-mortar video game retailer with declining same-store sales into something genuinely strange: a public-market vehicle for buying Bitcoin, hoarding cash, and using its meme-stock-era retail investor base to fund increasingly large balance-sheet plays. GameStop currently holds: • Around $5 billion in cash and short-term investments • A growing Bitcoin treasury • Minimal operating cash flow from the actual gaming business That balance sheet plus Cohen's reputation in the retail trading community has historically been enough to push GameStop's stock to valuations that make no sense for a video game retailer. Cohen has been very good at using that valuation as currency. The eBay bid was the boldest version of that play. If accepted, GameStop would become a real e-commerce platform overnight. The combined company would have $100+ billion in marketplace GMV, real free cash flow, and a credible AI/payments roadmap. The video game-related identity of GameStop would functionally disappear, replaced by something more like an Amazon-adjacent marketplace operator. The bid was Cohen's attempt to use GameStop's premium valuation to acquire an actual durable business. Why eBay's "no" matters When a target board publicly rejects a bid using the word "credible," it is doing two things: 1. Inoculating against shareholder pressure. eBay knows Cohen has built a 5% position in eBay and signaled he might call a special shareholder meeting. The board's public rejection establishes the official position — we looked at it, we don't think it works, here's why — so any future shareholder vote happens with the board's view already on the record. 2. Discouraging follow-on bids. If eBay had said "we're considering it" or "we want better terms," it would have signaled that a higher bid might work. By saying the bid is "not credible," eBay is telling Cohen and any potential future bidder that no amount of money from this configuration of buyer with this financing structure is going to clear the board. If you want to bid for eBay, bring real cash, a strategic logic, and a deal that does not depend on $30 billion of speculative debt. Where the GameStop story goes from here GameStop has three plausible paths from here: Path A: Cohen takes it to shareholders directly. He has built a 5% position, which is enough to call a special meeting in many circumstances. He can try to force a shareholder vote on the merger, betting that retail investors who love both Cohen and the meme-stock narrative will overwhelm institutional shareholders skeptical of the deal. The math on this is hard — eBay's institutional investor base is concentrated, and major asset managers (Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity) are unlikely to back a leveraged take-under by a much smaller acquirer. Path B: Cohen walks away and the eBay stake becomes a tax-loss event. GameStop's 5% position in eBay was bought at average prices that may have been near eBay's recent highs. If the bid effectively collapses, eBay's stock could drift back toward $90-95 and GameStop's position becomes a meaningful unrealized loss. Cohen would either need to sell (locking the loss) or hold and wait for eBay's strategic plan to deliver. Path C: Cohen pivots to a different target. GameStop's balance sheet is still real cash. Cohen has been signaling that he wants GameStop to become an acquirer of real operating businesses. If eBay is off the table, the next logical targets are smaller — Etsy ($8B market cap), Wayfair ($8B), or a niche marketplace operator. Those deals would actually be doable given GameStop's existing capital structure. The cultural moment The GameStop-eBay story is a perfect Bookend to the 2021 meme-stock era. Five years ago, retail investors used GameStop's stock as a weapon against hedge funds shorting the company. The collective action turned a dying retailer into a household name and made Ryan Cohen into a folk hero. He then used that momentum to transform GameStop into a balance sheet that could attempt audacious moves like buying eBay. The rejection by eBay's board is the corporate establishment saying: we have not forgotten the rules, and the rules still apply. A small company cannot acquire a larger company using mostly speculative financing and stock that trades at a meme premium. Capital markets eventually impose discipline on capital structure even when retail investors are willing to keep the dance going. Whether or not you like Ryan Cohen, the eBay rejection is the most important institutional pushback against the meme-stock model in years. Watch GameStop's next move — that tells us whether Cohen learned the lesson or whether he doubles down on something even bigger and stranger.

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  __ROTE__ (@_ROTE_) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ctizzie @AshAgony I’m all good with crushing illegal, unregisterable mopeds. People are spending over $3K on crate e-mopeds off of eBay and other portals- WITH NO VIN NUMBERS! That’s right, this is a Federal issue and good luck with that.

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  leakingalpha.eth (@bullishdumping) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JamesSurowiecki This sentence shows you’re a retard: “He's offering $62.50 a share in cash, and the rest in watered-down, overpriced GameStop stock, which he wants eBay shareholder to trade their shares for.” There are valid critiques like the debt, but even 100% stock can make sense.

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  Mbb7806 (@mbb7806) reported 7 minutes ago

  @korysversion Even with physical access, it's still a financial burden. I've read over 1k Superman comics & RCO was my back up if DC Infinite didn't have issues. If I want to keep reading, I have to literally buy through eBay or something. I can't buy one issue had a time on top of shipping :/

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  Brady (@brrrrrady) reported 9 minutes ago

  @eBay the scan feature isn’t working please fix it :(

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  bubblehead_ripz_cardz (@BubbleheadRipz) reported 9 minutes ago

  Has anyone else’s eBay sales been slow? #thehobby #THFpro

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  Mark M (@iwasmmueller88) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MTG_HODL @CardPurchaser You issue a refund, and file a damaged in transit claim with eBay’s ESE insurance. Then you move on. You’ll get paid out in like 3 days max to your PayPal and then you block the buyer.

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  Cain (@seo762110) reported 11 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon They are BCG agents. These douchebags were hired to burn down EBay from the inside out. The reason they cannot sell for $125 is.. if they accept the $125, all the EBay shorts must close for $125. They want to close for much lower and if possible, bankrupt EBay.

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  cheesehands (@Duke0fdaytona) reported 12 minutes ago

  @eBay @eBayForBusiness SKUs have completely disappeared from the Order Details page when printing shipping labels. This started ~2 days ago and is making fulfillment much slower for sellers with large inventories. Please fix ASAP. #eBaySeller”

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  Elvick (@Elvick) reported 12 minutes ago

  Based eBay. GameStop is trash. eBay has it's problems, but it's far better off than GS.

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  Dr. Howard 🌐 (@_how_ard_) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Polymarket I know the ebay name recognition + customer base is worth a lot but I don't think it would be too difficult to create a better run competitor to crush it. Problem is, that would take at least a few years.

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 16 minutes ago

  Shorts are pushing the $GME price down - if GME buys EBay the share count will be higher …

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  It’s Maina (@maina_dilemma) reported 25 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon eBay shut down their Israeli offices earlier this year… they didn’t want to support genocide. Now do you see why @ryancohen want’s eBay so bad? He will get it too.. his ‘friends’ will help if he can’t bleed us for it. America has a disproportionate amount of Jewish Oligarchs…

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  starsportscards (@starsportscard1) reported 27 minutes ago

  @ryancohen @TheJusticeDept By the time you get charged the "ad" fee, you could be paying up to 43% in fees to ebay. That's not growth, that's just down right criminal behavior. @TheJusticeDept

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  DataAndFinance (@EmotionMarkets) reported 29 minutes ago

  @BoilerPaulie eBay did not kill the bid. They slowed the siege. $GME had a coherent M&A narrative around the initial $EBAY push. Now SETA has coherence down to 0.35, with the footprint fragmenting away from clean acquisition pressure. Cohen can still pursue it. But the easy pressure window faded. The cash is still there. The crowd has to be reorganized.

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  DF (@dwfisher007) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Asking for eBay Board and Mgt team to step down ...

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  Chris Sommers (@ChrisSommers79) reported 37 minutes ago

  @EconomPic @stoked_on_waves @RandolphDuke7 there’s no other way for eBay shareholders to get stock because he’s not going to sell $25-30bn worth of GameStop shares before the deal He may issue shares after the deal closes but I’d actually be surprised if he does, at least in first 3-6 months

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  KlearNewsDaily (@KlearNewsDaily) reported 37 minutes ago

  eBay Rejects GameStop Takeover Offer Worth Billions GameStop made a takeover offer for eBay worth about $56 billion. eBay turned down the offer. eBay chairman Paul Pressler called the offer not credible or attractive. The bid was half cash and half GameStop stock at $125 per share. Reports say $20 billion in debt financing was secured from TD Bank. GameStop chief Ryan Cohen may now launch a hostile bid. Sources say Cohen is ready to fight for the deal. He may take the offer directly to eBay shareholders. - Klear Note — A takeover offer means one company tries to buy another. A hostile bid means going directly to shareholders when the board says no.

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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 43 minutes ago

  @iky_fwjett That's not a flip, that's theft. Wild that eBay makes it so easy for anyone to list anything without confirming ownership. The $25 find was solid though — $600-700 to the right buyer is real. Just wild it went down like this.

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 45 minutes ago

  The JATS™ Strategic Brief: The GameStop–eBay Acquisition Architecture The Ryan Cohen Playbook 2.0 $GME $EBAY The proposed acquisition of eBay by GameStop would represent a major strategic evolution in Ryan Cohen’s operating playbook. Cohen disrupted the pet industry with Chewy through a relentless obsession with customer service, logistics, speed, and trust. He then stabilized GameStop by stripping away debt, rebuilding the balance sheet, and positioning the company for long-term strategic optionality. The eBay thesis appears to be the next phase of that model. Cohen has described eBay as a great company with a great opportunity. That phrasing matters. It suggests he does not view eBay as a broken asset, but rather as an underutilized platform possessing massive embedded value. The objective is not simply to acquire another online marketplace; it is to fuse eBay’s digital footprint with GameStop’s physical infrastructure, forging a high-velocity, physical-digital commerce network. GameStop’s footprint of roughly 1,600 physical locations could transcend traditional retail. These stores could function as localized fulfillment nodes, intake centers, authentication hubs, customer-service points, and community-based commerce infrastructure. Under this model, eBay’s marketplace becomes trusted, localized, and operationally disciplined. This is the Chewy playbook applied to the secondary market: better service, faster shipping, verified products, and an ironclad customer relationship. The Financial Engine: Authorized Share Expansion To execute a transaction of this magnitude, GameStop requires supreme financial flexibility. This illustrates the strategic importance of the proposed authorized share expansion. Proposal 5 seeks to increase GameStop’s authorized Class A common stock from 1.005 billion to 2.5 billion shares. On the surface, this registers as dilution risk. Strategically, however, it serves as transaction ammunition. The company is not signaling an intent to immediately flood the market with shares; it is engineering the capacity to act decisively the moment the right opportunity crystallizes. A major cash-and-stock acquisition demands this exact flexibility, allowing GameStop to preserve its ironclad balance sheet while offering eBay shareholders meaningful participation in the combined entity. Cohen’s personal alignment is equally critical. He draws no salary, no cash bonus, and no time-vested stock. His performance-based option award only holds value if GameStop’s market capitalization rises dramatically and the company generates substantial, cumulative earnings. This structure tethers him exclusively to long-term enterprise value, bypassing short-term financial engineering. This is not a compensation story. It is an execution story. The Strategic Synergy: Building the Physical-Digital Bridge The core opportunity lies within eBay’s underutilized marketplace infrastructure. eBay retains enormous brand recognition, global reach, seller liquidity, and category depth. Yet, the platform is currently plagued by stagnation, trust deficits, inconsistent seller quality, fragmented fulfillment, and an absence of modernization. GameStop is uniquely positioned to solve this. The combined entity could leverage GameStop storefronts as localized fulfillment and intake hubs, accelerating the velocity of select eBay goods through the system. High-value categories—collectibles, electronics, gaming hardware, trading cards, luxury watches, and refurbished devices—would instantly benefit from in-person authentication. This physical trust layer dramatically reduces fraud and elevates buyer confidence, creating a moat that pure-play digital competitors cannot replicate.

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  BigV12 (@VLubz12) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SlayinTimeStay @CardPurchaser I have reported this many times and nothing has happened, Ebay is so out of touch on these issues

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  Luv (@LoveYouFTW) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Tyleronhowdy If they resealed the pack or its fake, message the seller and tell them your issues. If you cant get a refund then you can take it up to Ebay support and they will refund you.

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  Jon Bryson (@jonbryson93) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Jbm_dev Because listing industrial electronic items on eBay through eBays app takes to long especially when all the details of the items matter and typing them allows for too much human error. I built a Ebay listing agent that allows you to just take multiple pictures of the item especially the name plate, then it drafts the Ebay listing while you are off taking the next set of photos. Not to mention it sets a price based off of eBay sales as well as historical data and google data. At the end of the day you have a big list of drafts to review to ensure accuracy and then you do a bulk listing push to Ebay live. I've reduced the time to list one item from 8 minutes down to less than 1 minute.

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  John Hickelmeyer (@JHickelmeyer) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AzzyDesignWorks I wouldn't doubt the artificial shortages at all. My manifolds cracked (common issue) took nearly 8 months for the dealer to get the parts. I could have bought them on ebay the next day but I wasn't paying for the parts.

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  Chef Jeff (@ChefJeff2185) reported 50 minutes ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen The owners, interesting who owns ebay and who likes making money. State street, vanguard, Cohen, who else owns 4.9% of ebay. Still feel like This is happening. They cant hold GMEs price down forever. Great interview.

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  Pete Segheth (@OGpimpfish) reported 54 minutes ago

  @compound248 @JamesSurowiecki Correct. And then you immediately gut costs which are at this point 3x what they should be and rebuild the platform with a seller centric bias. Ebay SUCKS to use as a casual. Fix issues it it will explode

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  KenGriffinSwallows (@captain_tying) reported 1 hour ago

  @CGasparino @CGasparino, the better half of you dribbled down your whorish mother's inner thigh. Gme Ebay Ryan Cohen Game Stop

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  AMERICA1STGUY (@America1Bobby) reported 1 hour ago

  @APompliano @ryancohen Ebay is a terrible company it absolutely takes advantage of sellers and allows 1000s of phony products to be sold. I have spoken to insiders and they said it's insane what really goes on within the company. I would not be surprised if some big news comes out about them.