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
Preston	Website Down	50 minutes ago
Andernach	Website Down	2 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	6 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	7 hours ago
Cheltenham	Sign in	11 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	11 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  GMEbay Bloat (@GMEbay_Bloat) reported 4 minutes ago

  @SignalToGamma Totally agree. He’s a plant. Perhaps someone shorted eBay and doesn’t like the run up. Need him in there to bring it back down.

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  Malcolm (@THE_MILK_M4N) reported 5 minutes ago

  @trvsrdrgz2 The funny part is that the economy is not going to slow its going to damn near die. Ebay will be free at that point.

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  GATEWAY XCHANGE (@Gatewayxchange_) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DeItaone Ryan Cohen not backing down — escalates the eBay takeover bid after the board rejected his massive $56B offer. Calling eBay “literally obese” and extremely bloated? Brutal but accurate. The company needs serious surgery, and Cohen has a proven track record of turning around struggling retailers. This is what real activist capitalism looks like — challenging complacent boards and pushing for actual value creation. Game on. 🚀

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  TradeWin (@TradeWin_) reported 5 minutes ago

  EBay proposal : rejected. RC tells he will go Ask shareholders to vote. The problem ? Institutions holding the biggest eBay positions are very likely to be short GME, so they must not agree on the deal because it will make them go under water on their GME shorts. A not impossible solution : buying eBay cash with some 5D-chess move financing. Would be a real earthquake !

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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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  chriscarter.eth 💙🏴‍☠️💜 (@chriscarter_eth) reported 9 minutes ago

  What if $gme doesn't go up but rather #ebay goes down?? Curious about how many we issue...

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  Dr. Austin Smith (@defmetal) reported 9 minutes ago

  eBay turning down GameStop makes sense. They don't want a dying retailer dragging the platform down.

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  GainzAlgo (@gainzalgo) reported 9 minutes ago

  @tspencer322 $GME is dangerously going down because of Ebay rejection.

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  cheesehands (@Duke0fdaytona) reported 11 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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  Roman Pioneer (@renoipgp) reported 14 minutes ago

  For accounts with limited seller history, fewer than 25 completed sales, or no prior successful sales in sports memorabilia/autographs, @eBay should apply a separate category exposure limit to auction-style listings in high-risk memorabilia categories. This should not be a simple account-wide dollar limit. It should be based on the combination of: account age; seller feedback count; prior sales in the same category; number of active memorabilia listings; auction format; use of high-risk athlete names; use of third-party COA keywords; starting price far below expected market value; multiple similar jerseys or signed items listed in a short window. The rule should not stop a normal low-history seller from listing one inherited signed jersey. It should stop an account with no meaningful memorabilia history from listing ten Tom Brady / Michael Jordan / Ohtani / Messi-style memorabilia auctions while also keeping a cheap notebook active as a low-risk account signal. For collectors, there is not a perfect manual defense here. A buyer can avoid obvious low-history seller red flags and run certificate numbers through @CheckCOA , but the better fix has to happen at the platform-risk level.

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  Supreme Being (@SupremeBeing741) reported 14 minutes ago

  Im tired of all these low iq tin. 2.5B share is for a stock split and not for the actual merger (it just gives the illusion that the board will issue enough shares to satisfy ebay shareholders). Also what about tokenized securities? Hmmm maybe? $GME

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  Luke Stan (@Luke__Stan) reported 14 minutes ago

  @eBay Allowing fake items to remain on the platform harms both buyers and legitimate brands. I hope eBay strengthens its review process and enforcement. Ignoring this issue could lead to bigger problems down the line. I plan to write a letter to the brand (Ralph Lauren) about it.

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 15 minutes ago

  @raskolniklove I think it's interesting that $EBAY comms/press relations can't be bothered to do their jobs & respond to emails from a journalist requesting comment about serious issues at the co for 5 years. I also think it's interesting eBay is willing to pay outside consultants to send an unsolicited email with links to their rejection notice to that same journalist. Kind of proves many of the points @ryancohen has been making.

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 15 minutes ago

  Cohen’s conviction on this point is deeply personal. In a recent interview, he highlighted this exact vulnerability, detailing his own experience as an everyday eBay consumer. He revealed that he made multiple purchases on the platform—specifically digital items for his son—that turned out to be fraudulently advertised, forcing him to undergo the friction of initiating chargebacks. Expressing outright disbelief, he openly questioned how a major marketplace could allow such basic operational failures to persist. For a CEO obsessed with customer delight, that experience highlights a critical, systemic failure in digital trust. It also serves as the perfect pivot to the darker side of the thesis: if simple consumer fraud is this prevalent and unmanaged, what else is hiding in the system? The Forensic Risk Layer: The "Ghost Architecture" Hypothesis The public-facing thesis is purely operational: modernize eBay, optimize logistics, and restore trust. But given Cohen's own encounters with platform fraud, a serious acquisition of eBay necessitates a deep forensic audit. This introduces the risk layer. The following is a hypothesis, not an allegation: eBay’s protracted stagnation may have allowed hidden inefficiencies, synthetic activity, ghost accounts, or non-economic transaction patterns to calcify within the marketplace. These anomalies are rarely visible through headline revenue, Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV), or active-user metrics. Uncovering them requires bottom-up telemetry analysis. A marketplace can appear healthy on the surface while actively harboring volume that is low-quality, non-repeatable, artificially inflated, or entirely disconnected from physical commerce. If Cohen’s team is executing due diligence, they are likely scrutinizing the relationship between reported transactions and physical reality: inventory movement, shipping integrity, buyer-seller linkage, tracking reuse, account clustering, and authentication failure rates. The foundational question is simple: How much of eBay’s marketplace activity is real, durable, physical commerce? The NGO Laundering & "Fees as a Service" Hypothesis One forensic risk scenario involves the exploitation of marketplace infrastructure for non-traditional capital flows. Under this theory, certain accounts might utilize eBay-style transactions not to trade goods, but to generate legitimate-looking payment records and move capital. This could hypothetically involve shell entities, offshore actors, or coordinated account networks. The entity's label is irrelevant; the core issue is whether the transaction possesses actual economic substance. The model is straightforward: 1. A controlled buyer account purchases a high-value, vaguely described item from a controlled seller account. 2. Little to no meaningful physical inventory changes hands (shipping may be recycled, unverifiable, or minimal). 3. The payment clears through the marketplace, the seller receives an e-commerce payout, and the platform collects its final value fee. 4. The transaction secures a pristine digital paper trail. In this scenario, the marketplace unwittingly becomes a fee-based transaction wrapper. The ghost seller sacrifices normal retail profit margins to acquire the transaction record. For the platform, this activity inflates GMV, transaction volume, and fee revenue. But the revenue quality is entirely hollow. Due Diligence and the "Skeletons" Risk GameStop would not simply be buying eBay’s reported numbers; it would be buying the quality of those numbers. A rigorous due diligence process would demand deterministic telemetry analysis. Key audit questions would likely include: Are active-user metrics inflated by ghost accounts? Are there unusual, circular buyer-seller loops? Are there transaction clusters with weak evidence of physical goods movement? Are specific categories producing high fee revenue but low physical verification?

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  Breakfast & Bullets (@BreakfastBullit) reported 15 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay Just wanted to say you suck. I bought something "new in box," it arrived missing parts and broken, seller not answering messages. I filed a claim, it was denied because I "received my order, according to shipping info." I appealed. Denied within 10 minutes. This seller is scamming people. I want my money back.

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  Nathan Snyder (@ANateForFate) reported 22 minutes ago

  DC Universe doesn't have every single issue of Superman in existence. What if I'm in the mood to read the Bronze Age? What if the comic stores I go to have none of the issues I want? And if they're on eBay yet crazy expensive, what do you want to do then?

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  Richard (@standards4ppl) reported 22 minutes ago

  @PhantomBlack699 In short, @ryancohen is saying that eBay is a goldmine buried under mountains of corporate waste, and he’s the only one with the prescription to fix it. I most certainly agree with that

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  Hickey (@asheme62) reported 23 minutes ago

  @jworthliving @CardPurchaser I’ve had 4 messages this week saying that they haven’t been received after a week, between eBay ans the USPS there appears to be a lot of issues with ESE

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  石川誠 (@isikawamako10) reported 23 minutes ago

  @ImDashTV Unlike in the US, the supply is limited in Japan, so you never know if another cheap bobblehead will become available after you sell one. And on eBay, shipping and customs fees make it more expensive. It's a difficult problem.

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  DataAndFinance (@EmotionMarkets) reported 25 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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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 26 minutes ago

  $GME GAMESTOP SHARES DOWN 2.7% AFTER EBAY REJECTS ACQUISITION PROPOSAL

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  VELVAVOID (@VELVAVOID1) reported 29 minutes ago

  @nypost eBay just shut down GameStop’s audacious $56 billion takeover bid, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’ over financing concerns, operational risks, and governance questions. Ryan Cohen’s offer (half cash, half GME stock at $125/share) was a bold swing from the much smaller company, but eBay’s board is confident going it alone. Classic David vs Goliath that didn’t land. What a wild chapter in retail/e-commerce drama! 📉🛒

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  jikkyuu but dc ❤️💙❤️ (@existentialitch) reported 34 minutes ago

  and don't get me started on availability of older issues. i would love to send dc 100+ bucks i have to pay to some dude on ebay for tpbs of my favourite runs BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE. it's crazy. idk how i'd be able to get into those stories without piracy.

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  Gyara(dos) (@pointmash) reported 37 minutes ago

  And GME goes down if ebay says yes and GME goes down if ebay says no？🤔

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  Ansgar John (@ansgarjohn) reported 38 minutes ago

  @wolfejas @darrenrovell No, it has $29 billion in cash and eBay is buying GameStop through extra shares that will be created. 1. The offer in numbers Total deal value: ~$56 billion (some reports cite $55.5–56B depending on exact share count). Price per eBay share: $125 (cash + stock). Premium: ~20% over eBay’s Friday close before the announcement (implying eBay’s pre-offer market cap was ~$46–48B). eBay shares outstanding: ~448–451 million (quick check: $56B ÷ $125 ≈ 448 million). Payment split: Exactly 50% cash + 50% GameStop common stock, with eBay shareholders allowed to elect their mix (pro-rata if oversubscribed). So the split is: Cash portion: $28 billion (half of $56B). Stock portion: $28 billion worth of newly issued GameStop shares. 2. How the cash portion ($28B) is funded — the core math Cohen didn’t spell out GameStop doesn’t need to come up with $28B in cash out of thin air. Here’s the exact funding sources disclosed in their offer letter: GameStop’s existing cash & liquid investments: ~$9.4 billion (balance as of January 31, 2026; recent reports confirm it’s still ~$9B). New third-party debt financing: up to $20 billion via a “highly confident” commitment letter from TD Securities (a TD Bank subsidiary). Total cash available for the cash portion: $9.4B (GME cash) + $20B (new debt) = $29.4 billion That fully covers (and slightly exceeds) the $28B cash needed. The extra ~$1.4B provides a buffer for transaction costs, fees, or minor adjustments. In equation form: Cash required = $28B Cash sources = Existing cash + New debt commitment $28B ≤ $9.4B + $20B → Fully financed on paper. The letter explicitly states: “The cash consideration is expected to be funded from a combination of (i) cash and liquid investments on GameStop’s balance sheet, which totaled ~$9.4 billion as of January 31, 2026, and (ii) third-party acquisition financing, in respect of which GameStop has received a highly-confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20 billion.” (Note: “Highly confident” is one step short of a fully committed debt facility, which is common in early-stage unsolicited bids; it still signals strong bank backing.) 3. The stock portion ($28B) — no cash required This is pure equity issuance: GameStop issues new shares directly to eBay shareholders. The exact number of shares (and exchange ratio) will be set at signing so the stock component equals $28B in value at the agreed price. GameStop’s pre-deal market cap was ~$12 billion. Issuing $28B worth of new stock means significant dilution for existing GME shareholders (roughly tripling the share count in value terms, depending on the final price). Post-deal ownership sketch (simplified, assuming no major market reaction): eBay shareholders receive ~50% of the deal value in GME stock → they become major owners of the combined company. Original GME shareholders retain ownership of the pre-deal equity minus the dilution from the new shares issued. This is standard “cash + stock” M&A math — the stock issuance finances half the purchase without needing more cash or debt. 4. Quick pro-forma picture (why Cohen says it can work) Combined company gets eBay’s ~$10B+ annual revenue + GameStop’s operations + ~$2B in targeted annualized cost savings within 12 months. Cohen’s vision (from the letter and WSJ interview): Integrate GameStop’s 1,600+ physical stores for eBay authentication/fulfillment/live commerce, turning eBay into a stronger Amazon rival worth “hundreds of billions.” Debt load increases by ~$20B, but the combined entity’s cash flows + synergies are meant to service it. Bottom line on the math: The $28B cash leg is covered by $9.4B on-hand + $20B committed debt capacity. The $28B stock leg is covered by printing new GME shares. No mystery — it’s all in the public letter. The real questions (which CNBC rightly pressed) are execution risk, massive dilution, whether banks will ultimately fund the full $20B, regulatory hurdles, and whether eBay’s board/shareholders accept. Cohen’s on-air answers were evasive because the numbers are straightforward once you open the letter — but he didn’t walk viewers through the arithmetic the way a CEO normally would in a high-stakes deal interview. This is the clear, no-spin version. The deal is still non-binding and faces long odds, but the financing math itself adds up on paper exactly as described.

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  John Johnson 🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@welwynstudios) reported 38 minutes ago

  @sandkiz @classic_film I got mine off EBay, after searching for some time. What was the glitch?

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  Jacob Dulworth (@jworthliving) reported 38 minutes ago

  Attention EBay sellers that use EBay plain white envelope. My local post office denied my shipment because it didn’t include the “non machinable surcharge, 49 cents”. They said usps is starting to crack down on this. @CardPurchaser

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  Brady (@brrrrrady) reported 40 minutes ago

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

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  SaugyWaffles (@SaugyWaffles3) reported 48 minutes ago

  @WindyCityDugout @MTG_HODL @CardPurchaser I have been using them for 3 years and never had any issue. Only issue is when people over pack them. Send them with ebay and What not sales.

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  Cain (@seo762110) reported 55 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.