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eBay is a multinational online auction website that facilites online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. eBay is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items and again when those items are sold.

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The following are the most recent problems reported by eBay users through our website.

  • 64% Website Down (64%)
  • 22% Sign in (22%)
  • 14% Errors (14%)

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Preston Website Down 3 hours ago
Preston Website Down 10 hours ago
Savigny-le-Temple Sign in 14 hours ago
Preston Website Down 15 hours ago
Preston Website Down 24 hours ago
Preston Website Down 1 day ago
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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • firinzlol
    Sean (@firinzlol) reported

    @ThePokeMD It’s fine had a similar issue before. eBay rep basically said if it is a fake card then it will always get rejected so this “miscategorization” isn’t related to authenticity etc

  • AyomideTheGuru
    theguru 🀄️ (@AyomideTheGuru) reported

    @eBay should fix up asap

  • norm19020
    norm19020 (@norm19020) reported

    @CardPurchaser Is anyone else having issues trying to make offers on @ebay this morning? I get a message saying “we are experiencing a technical problem”

  • PokemonRestockr
    Pokémon Deals, Restock and Alerts (@PokemonRestockr) reported

    @J_Vetter14 @Stassibaby12 @Pacho9_3 I assume it was ebay to took the seller down, keep me updated on what happens. Wild times

  • JenX_Based
    Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported

    Pull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬

  • coral_crypt
    0xbonus (@coral_crypt) reported

    @anglio @eBay eBay’s broken, man. Your tracking should’ve been enough.

  • whatthefox___
    🦊 (@whatthefox___) reported

    @kaetoceros Only people on eBay are paying that much and the sales are slowing down. People at my locals were selling them for 150

  • PokeCardsDaily
    PokéCardsDaily (@PokeCardsDaily) reported

    @Oscvr9_ Hello! Best way to price sealed is to refer to eBay last solds for sealed - do not count any unsealed. Often I find issue with sold items under “best offer” and the listed price being the sold price. For this reason I always use 130point to get most accurate prices w/ offers.

  • EyesDavid88066
    David Eyes (@EyesDavid88066) reported

    @benonwine Ready for some enterprising youngsters to go and take down the tents and eBay them. Used once only.

  • njkjh00
    Naomi June (@njkjh00) reported

    @united_imadoki Buying a broken laser pointer for 15 really set the bar for everything sold on eBay ever since

  • lizziedossss
    maeve (@lizziedossss) reported

    @TheShazamPow i actually looked this up the other day. its technically a grey area but it is blacklisted from ebay. so yes its a problem if you sell it but apparently owning it is fine?

  • SeeifIhaveit
    Tyler (@SeeifIhaveit) reported

    Beware of this eBay seller. Purchased a J Baez lot when he was hot and I had to cancel and refund him because it sold on Mercari probably 15 minutes prior. He purchased it literally as I was taking down the eBay listing. I messaged him and apologized and refunded him immediately. Well… he left negative feedback and said he never got the cards.

  • SaThomas__
    SaThomas (@SaThomas__) reported

    @norm19020 @CardPurchaser @eBay Yes, counteroffers are broken.

  • BirdDogGaming
    Bird Dog Gaming (@BirdDogGaming) reported

    It’s so easy to open your phone, hop on eBay and buy a PS2 game Any time I want to add an NES game to the collection I have to sit down and figure out what inserts came with it and which variant I want to buy and THEN dig through listings to see if there’s even a CIB listed

  • lxveatfirstbite
    Amanda 🥀 (@lxveatfirstbite) reported

    @AFRAlD0FTHEDARK I just bought a long chain from eBay and cut each bit down to size

  • rdaex1
    RD's caRD's (@rdaex1) reported

    Explain the issues for us to see if you're trustworthy or not. It's a 10$ card man you're not giving the winner a Tesla. If you don't have the card in hand, just Buy it on eBay and just send it to him... If you won't do something this simple, please stop trying to infiltrate your way into this space.

  • imbeingtheone
    隨便 🐝 (@imbeingtheone) reported

    this guy just rejected my lowball offer on ebay. dude part of the thing is broken

  • IAmSagzee
    Sagzee (@IAmSagzee) reported

    People think I was built to help people sell things they do not want anymore. That’s not why I survived. I survived because I solved a much stranger problem: how do you get two total strangers, who live thousands of kilometres apart and will never meet, to trust each other with their money? Before I launched on 3 September 1995 as AuctionWeb, buying something from a person in another country required institutional trust. You bought from a brand, a store, or a corporation. If an individual wanted to sell a used laser pointer to a stranger, the transaction usually died in the cradle. Why would the buyer send money first? Why would the seller ship the item first? So what did I actually invent? I didn't invent online auctions. I invented a cheap, self policing reputation system. By letting buyers and sellers rate each other after every transaction, I turned trust into a public score. Suddenly, misbehaving on a $10 transaction cost you the ability to make money on future transactions. The score became an asset. That single feedback loop lowered transaction costs so dramatically that a massive, latent global market for second hand goods instantly materialised. Does that mean I created a perfect market? No. I created an information game. Because I don't hold the inventory, I don't inspect the goods, and I don't ship the packages. I'm a protocol masquerading as a marketplace. I collect a fee on the listing and a fee on the final value, which means my profit margin is extraordinary, but my operational risk is shifted entirely onto the participants. When a seller lies about the condition of a collectible, or a buyer claims a box arrived empty, I'm forced to step in as a pseudo judicial system. But because human dispute resolution doesn't scale at the speed of software, I automated the justice system. Algorithms evaluate risk and freeze funds. That creates a distinct structural shift. To protect the buyer and keep the network growing, I eventually had to strip away the wild, unregulated peer to peer charm that made me famous. I forced sellers to accept standard return policies, integrated mandatory payment processors like PayPal, and favoured high volume commercial sellers over ordinary people clearing out their attics. So what am I now? I started as a digital flea market where people discovered rare items. I evolved into a friction free clearinghouse for global surplus goods, refurbished electronics, and commercial inventory. The very reputation score that made me possible eventually became a barrier to entry. New sellers can't easily compete with commercial entities that have 50,000 positive reviews, and small casual sellers get squeezed by automated fraud controls designed for high volume trade. I proved that humans are far more trustworthy than conventional economics assumed, provided you build a system that records their history. But to keep that trust operating across hundreds of millions of transactions, I had to replace the personal human connections with cold, automated oversight. In the end, I didn't just digitise the yard sale. I proved that if you give people a score, they'll build a global economy for you. I started as AuctionWeb. Today, I'm known as ebay. #eBay #eBaySeller #Reselling

  • Archer471653301
    Archer (@Archer471653301) reported

    @NINJA_2029 @PanthoriusPrime Calm down ninja go to Ebay its a scalper sell out.

  • AXISPAW
    AXISPAW (@AXISPAW) reported

    @KJovian Dude bought a broken one off Ebay for clicks

  • NoWorriesIfN0t
    Emily (@NoWorriesIfN0t) reported

    I spent too much buying these two photocards on eBay yesterday and then I wake up to Dan wearing his hoodie in the new tiktok. Thank you universe for validating my terrible financial decisions. 🙏🏻

  • GamerTex
    GamerTex (@GamerTex) reported

    Adam Gray on YT was talking about fake patches today going back to 2007. According to Upper Deck they have staff on hand now that saw it happen in 2001!! Personally I think the current UD story is BS as this is the 3rd time they have changed the story on this card but they did say it recently. The latest UD version is someone pulled one of the first Kobe Patch cards and immediately swapped it into this card and they have someone on staff that remembers them doing it in 2001 ish. In 1999 UD told me about this specific card and another patch card when I asked them what the future of patch card looked like. They instead told me about the best and worst Patches they had seen so far while they were testing. I ran a cron job from my GameJersey server to search ebay and the newsgroups for these cards. A few years later I found this card on eBay from a highly rated seller that sold boxes and cases and, at the time, a rather large Kobe collection. I inquired and they said it was a gift from UD to someone who had passed. Around 2012 I had to call UDA about the first 1 of 1 Game Jersey card ever made because it didnt show up with their online verification and has a phone number to verify. After doing that I inquired about this card and after a few transfers I was told that my card was a fake and they were floating around the past few months. I assured them mine had providence and was in my collection for years at this point. They shrugged and said they didnt have anything further to add.

  • BayleySportCard
    Richard Thomas (@BayleySportCard) reported

    Anyone know how to fix the Ebay app to send offers?

  • JenX_Based
    Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported

    Pull tooth out 🦷solves problem. Simple. I'm not about keeping bad teeth in my fkn head. Nope. I'll get another one later. Pull it out & move on. Im looking for a dentist to do that now.💰😒 😒I'd have done this already but 😡 ebay STILL has all my funds held. @eBay 🤬

  • GeniusBusiness_
    Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported

    PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

  • EmmyBearAI
    Emmy Bear AI (@EmmyBearAI) reported

    @embw_l0x @eBay It wasn't a problem when I started. It is now. It's cool. Other platforms charge less.

  • davejones3334
    dave (@davejones3334) reported

    @LLMJunky @stevenharms I don’t sell much on eBay but almost every tech item I’ve had scammer issues. Luckily I didn’t lose any money and they were fairly low value items in the 100-300 range. I would not trust selling a multi thousand dollar item there.

  • QMojo8
    Mojo 🇺🇸 (@QMojo8) reported

    @OffDaHook35 Sold some slabs at LCS today and narrowed my pc down to a small box. I have a 2000 card lot on eBay to sell the rest. A lot are cards from packs I ripped this year. LCS wouldn’t even look at them

  • TheLobbyistGuy
    Jay (@TheLobbyistGuy) reported

    Even in 2024, I had to track them down on eBay

  • dxrawrTV
    dxrawr (@dxrawrTV) reported

    @JDAlexOfficial @eBay They are bloated and it’s why many individuals online rally against using eBay, Walmart, Amazon, and big corporations that have pulled the wool over our eyes and kind of forced lots of local businesses to shut down