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 (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	15 minutes ago
Manchester	Website Down	7 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	13 hours ago
Neustadt	Sign in	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	23 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Bio Broly $Ski $Pengu (@The_Bio_Broly) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Aarameshi My buddy just had this exact thing happen with a GRADED CARD and ebay authenticity made him offer buyer a partial refund. He asked me if I had ever seen this issue before and I hadnt now Ive seen it twice in a week.

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  Oli Mortimer (@olimortimer) reported 3 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK In the meantime customers are asking why I haven't refunded them yet. "Sorry, it's not you, or me, it's the utter crap that is eBay". You would think for the amount of money we pay in fees, we would be able to use the site without constant errors.

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  Fatdad Dirk 🏴‍☠️ (@FatdadDirk) reported 5 minutes ago

  Q1’s $389.6M net income included a $268.4M unrealized gain on the eBay derivative position. GameStop’s adjusted net income was $179.3M. So if Q2 says: NET INCOME: $500 MILLION!!! I’m immediately scrolling down. Likewise, if GAAP net income looks disappointing because ->>

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 6 minutes ago

  Elon Musk was fired from his own company while flying to his honeymoon. September 2000. He boarded a plane with his new wife, finally taking a break. While he was in the air, unreachable, the PayPal board held an emergency vote and removed him as CEO. Executives he had hired organized the coup, timed precisely for the hours he couldn't defend himself. He landed to discover he no longer ran his own company. He flew back immediately and tried to fight it. The board held firm. The coup stood. Here's where the story becomes about him and not them. He didn't sue. He didn't burn it down. He didn't spend years in litigation like most founders would. He stayed on the board, kept his shares, and kept advising the men who knifed him. When asked why, he said the mission mattered more than his ego, and his shares mattered more than revenge. Two years later PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Because he'd stayed instead of raging, his stake had grown into $180 million. The betrayal became the exact capital that funded SpaceX and Tesla. The men who fired him made him the richest founder in the building. Every rocket that launches today was paid for by a coup that was supposed to end him. Revenge is expensive. Equity is patient. He chose the one that compounds, and the people who wronged him ended up financing his empire.

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  Bob Fine #IVRHA (@bobfine) reported 7 minutes ago

  @GoatBeardzDD Nice write up! I agree with the majority of your thinking. However, I don't think increasing the share offer is the issue or the problem. $125 was extremely generous when it was made. And a 20% premium (at today's price) is a very nice bump for a company whose future share price is very unpredictable. This fight has nothing to do what's good for the shareholders. eBay management and the board have an insane salary package, and they don't care about the share price because they hardly own any shares. They have little to gain letting this deal go through at any share price. They have their overpaid pay packages to lose and that's what they're trying to hang on to. This only goes through if the institutional shareholders of eBay force the eBay board to accept the buyout. But they're going to fight tooth and nail, because they don't personally benefit from the acquisition.

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  donna connell (@donnaconnell7) reported 10 minutes ago

  @VelcroFathoms @AnarchoDarling eBay will always take the buyers side, if there is a problem.

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  Dr Mushroom (@MycologySteve) reported 11 minutes ago

  As someone who has sold all types of collectibles on eBay for like 20+ years, this interaction screams "I will be a problem down the road." I probably wouldn't sell either, but I'd be less of an ******* about it. Just be like I don't think I have what your looking for and move on

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  November 🍂 (@r_nvmber) reported 18 minutes ago

  @RaisinTcg To the Moon 🚀 and I’ll tell you what I wasn’t told when I pulled my 1st manga. It’s a speed game. Grade fast ( yes it’s more expensive but that doesn’t matter you’ll make the money back) sell fast. ( don’t accept the PSA offer. Currently they are at 40% so multiply whatever number they hit you with by 60% and that’s the true value of the card) Selling on eBay will take 7 days to sell and 7 days to get your money. Strategize accordingly. If you sell IRL you will find a buyer but you’ll also have trouble explaining the funds down the line. Your choice based on what your end goal is. Good luck and GOD SPEED 🫡

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  🔴™️⚪️ (@TMath_Ayyy) reported 19 minutes ago

  About to do my first stack sale or attempt it. #TradeMarkedTakes This will end at 10pm. After that everything that doesnt sell will go to ebay auction. Im going to sticker all of these at last sale or under. Some of them i may bump down as the day goes along. If you buy more than one, shipped free. If you buy 3, 10% off. Should be listing around 1:30 Pm Central and End 10 PM Central

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  Tik Tok (@Spamolator) reported 22 minutes ago

  @EggerDC Wrong. Those are not in a sealed box from the seller. Anyone could've tampered with that and what recourse would that person have? They bought of eBay AND Door Dash. That's illegal bud. You can't claim it's from Amazon, but really from the Krogers down the street. 🤡

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  theHusk will remember that (@theHusk489) reported 22 minutes ago

  @NNavram Lol Reason I didn't buy em. I'm sure I could talk someone down to mid 200s on eBay.

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  Latent (@0xxLatent) reported 23 minutes ago

  In 1954 Mickey Mantle was the best baseball player in America. In 1994 he was a raging alcoholic with a failing liver. He jumped the transplant queue, got a new liver, kept drinking, and died anyway. The liver went to someone who could pay. Not to someone who needed it most. That is not a legal question. It is not a moral question. It is a microeconomics question - and there is a Harvard lecture that builds the framework to answer it from scratch. His name is Jonathan Gruber. MIT, 14.01, Principles of Microeconomics. He advised the Massachusetts health reform that became the model for the Affordable Care Act. He has taught this course at MIT for over two decades. This is lecture 1. One claim: every decision you have ever made is a constrained optimization problem. You just did not know it had a name. At 08:17 he uses the iPod to show how three questions get answered simultaneously by one mechanism. What gets produced. How it gets produced. Who gets it. The answer to all three is the same variable: price. One number coordinates millions of strangers without any of them knowing the others exist. At 19:13 he gives Adam Smith's paradox. Water is necessary for life. Diamonds are not. Water is nearly free. Diamonds cost a fortune. Smith had the question in 1776. The answer requires both sides of one equation - and the side he was missing is what this course is built on. At 21:15 he puts the kidney auction on eBay to the room. Starting price $25,000. Bidding reached $5 million before eBay shut it down. He asks whether eBay was wrong. The students argue. He does not resolve it. He says that question will take the rest of the semester to answer properly. A consultant I know says this is the lecture that made her realize she had been solving optimization problems her whole life without the vocabulary to describe them. Says she started seeing supply and demand curves in arguments she had been losing for years. Free on MIT OpenCourseWare, all 33 lectures. The kidney question from lecture 1 does not get a clean answer until week twelve. Most people who have opinions about ***** markets have never watched the part where the model is actually built.

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  Rugikk (@rugikkk) reported 25 minutes ago

  MIT teaches auction theory with 40 minutes of integrals, then throws out one bar-room example that quietly ruins every bid you'll ever make. 2 men, 2 wallets, 1 auction. Google built its ad business on the broken version of it, and the honest version has been sitting on a shelf since 1961. Start in the bar. 2 strangers, each with his own wallet in his hand, neither one opening it. They agree to auction the combined cash inside both. Highest bidder pays his bid and takes everything in the pot. You know your own $60. You know nothing about his. So every number you say out loud is built from half the facts and a guess about a stranger. Here's the trap, and it takes a second to land. He is only still bidding when he thinks the pot is fat. He drops out the moment he knows his own wallet is thin. So every round you win is a round the other guy was glad to hand you. That's the winner's curse. You don't win because you read the room better than anyone else. You win because you were the most wrong person at the table, and the auction sorted for exactly that. Oil firms bid on offshore drilling rights this way. Nobody knows what's under the seabed. The company that wins the block is the company that guessed highest, and the company that guessed highest is usually the company that guessed wrong. Government procurement runs on the same math. So do apartment bidding wars, and so does eBay at 11 PM when 3 people want the same lens. Now the money part. Google's search page has several ad slots, and the top one gets clicked far more than the 5th. Advertisers bid per click, not per view, so each one is really reporting a private number: what a single click is worth to them. For years the rule was simple. The 5th highest bid takes the 5th slot and pays the 6th bid. GSP. Generalized second price. It sounds clean and it isn't, because losing here doesn't mean going home with nothing. It means going home with a worse slot. So nobody states their real number. Everyone shades down, and then spends millions a year on software whose entire job is guessing what the other 40 bidders are about to do. An auction where the optimal move is to misreport what you know. The fix was published in 1961. Vickrey first, then Clarke, then Groves. VCG. You don't pay your bid. You pay the damage you caused: exactly what everyone else lost because you walked in the door. And the property that makes it beautiful is stronger than "usually works." Under VCG, telling the truth is your best move no matter how the other 40 bidders behave. Not on average. Always. It holds for any resource, not just ad slots. Vickrey solved it in 1961. The ad market spent 20 years bidding around him.

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  Steve (@SteveSTechMan) reported 25 minutes ago

  @mov_axbx Power. That is what this boils down to. The Spark will stay in the 2 digits, while this one gets to hair dryer level. Processors alone at idle 400w TDP. And there is NO WAY you are getting a server with 6TB of memory for $500. A 4TB model on ebay right now is selling for $88,000+.

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  nona 🇵🇭 IT'S FROZEN 3 SEASON (@nonadraws) reported 26 minutes ago

  @W1ngedP3arlz i got most of my merch from ebay, and some i found in a local toy sale many years back. i also have plushies that were given to me from someone in a discord server im in while i was in the US for a trip

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  Zazzy Xandrax (@ZazzyXandrax) reported 32 minutes ago

  @lazudeepbluesea I did this before and at least where I am you can for $3 each, the problem is that each location is only given a few at once so they don't have a full set and don't know if they will get them all. Best bet is just ebay type place.

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  big z (@zectrillionaire) reported 34 minutes ago

  Low-liquidity markets always interested me in a way that extremely liquid markets didn't. Wym I can push the price up or down in the short term, that's awesome This is one of the reasons that TCG markets always interested me. You're telling me if I buy this slab, and it's the cheapest one available, I can set the new price, higher? And be instantly up?(Atleast unrealized) There's actually a lot of opportunity to make money fast in lower liquidity markets, with less risk IMO, if you're lower-size (sub 100 million). It's also kind of safer too in a way, if price drops, I can just push it back up, and be back at break even or even higher. You just have to be patient. During Covid I did this experiment with WoW TCG sealed booster boxes, and unironically became one of the biggest whales in sealed WoW TCG. There's several products from that game, where on eBay, I literally am the market, if someone wants it they gotta pay what I say. The loot cards are still redeemable btw. It's fun, and teaches you a lot about how markets work.

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  Colin Landforce 🛠 (@landforce) reported 38 minutes ago

  Dropshipping fake Jordans on eBay All auctions, made clear there was no receipt/authentication, usually went for $70-$100 Paid a guy named Tommy in HK $55 per pair landed when the listing ended. Sold a lot of Blackcat 3’s and at some point realized - Nike would only take down the fake colorways. The real colors almost always stayed up. I was a freshmen in college, sold a lot of shoes to the football team that yr

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  Cardboard Connection (@sportscards) reported 39 minutes ago

  So my company is made over 100 million in sales In the past decade for eBay Using the eBay Partnership Network their affiliate marketing program. I would think that nine figures would buy at least a little feedback maybe a phone call notes an explanation maybe even some perks considering the magnitude... Instead my commissions were cut by over 2/3, everything is limited I was never entered into any programs and literally am losing my company without an explanation and Trying to save my business, the most recent compliance request came in about the entirety of my Facebook and X accounts. Keep in mind both of these accounts have roughly 70,000 followers between the two and I've never had an issue in a decade with these accounts except for the occasional request for an appliance update and I was trying links for one of their new programs. There's no way to call anyone there there's no way to get an explanation and now I've had to let go all of my employees just to keep the company alive until yesterday... Went from 4M organic users visiting my site, to this. Coincidently, 2 days after I asked for an explanation why my commission were basically eradicated. Play something along these two social media platforms that I haven't touched in a month since the last compliance Only reason enough to shut me down after 16 years with ebay. IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS??? They told me i was being used as a test pilot which is why my rates were below the GLOBAL STANDARD RATE CARD. And to wrap it up stay informed me of my suspension after over a decade of business by writing an email to me with the wrong name. I don't know who Ryan is... HELP

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  Doyoudrewtoo (@Werdnah815) reported 40 minutes ago

  @SpawnWaveMedia Keep in mind this is asking prices but only become real eBay sales if people give in to them. But people will probably give in to them :/ Or people will tag the sales and attack to take them down since preorders are being scrutinized more lately

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  Em (@artsyxbody) reported 40 minutes ago

  In all seriousness I had to change the category on my artwork so that way eBay didn’t take my **** down. 😔

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  D. Hathaway (@businessdhhrd) reported 42 minutes ago

  👀 5 copies of the Ditto Expo Promo have sold on my eBay since I posted this copy on X yesterday. The average sale price across those 5 copies was $437.40 per card. On X, I’m offering near-mint copies for $350 each — no tax + free shipping. 🔥 I’ll consider discounts on multiple copies. 💰 THE LITTLE GUY WON’T BE AVAILABLE FOREVER. 🐐 Started with roughly 1,200–1,500 copies… I’m down to about 150 copies left. 🥹🥹🥹

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  rabbit (@miniloprabbit) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Gamers4LMedia @DarkIxion Wait on eBay curry’s they sell it for £500-650. Brand new the box is just broken.

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  Knicks Memes (@KnicksMemes) reported 45 minutes ago

  @CEOAdam Huge problem with that: What if somebody decides they want, say, seats G26 and G27 for a showing, but it's sold out. So they go create a fake ebay listing for those exact seats, so those seats get canceled and open up, even though the actual owner was NEVER trying to sell them?!

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  🔴™️⚪️ (@TMath_Ayyy) reported 46 minutes ago

  About to do my first stack sale or attempt it. #TradeMarkedTakes This will end at 10pm. After that everything that doesnt sell will go to ebay auction. Im going to sticker all of these at last sale or under. Some of them i may bump down as the day goes along. 5.99 Shipping. If you buy 2, shipped free. If you buy 3, 10% off. Should be listing around 1:30 Pm Central and End 10 PM Central.

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  NKP1993 (@nkp1993) reported 47 minutes ago

  I broke down and bought a copy of The Potential Daleks. This boxset was clearly a big seller because it's hard to find for cheap. If you look on ebay it's already going for $200+! Luckily I found mine at @alienentertain, but it was still $85. Good grief! Could be worse I suppose.

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  Mystory Collector (@MyStoryCollect) reported 49 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS eBay's PWE tracking has caused more problems than it solves. That they are having to implement after-the-fact protections (e.g., what happens when a refund is issued for a shipment that is actually later delivered) is a wrongly placed band-aid, and hammers home the point that their PWE tracking sucks. It's cool that they're offering a program that requires 1k orders for a seller to qualify, but the problem relies mostly on the buyer side of things ("my package is 'lost' [due to eBay's shoddy tracking system], I demand a refund [or you'll get negative feedback]")...as the seller issues a refund to preserve their own feedback rating. If eBay is truly going to handle refund requests (at what cost?!) then that mitigates things for the seller, but it's just another band-aid to "fix" a tracking system which only tracks sporadically, if at all.

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  Nowellstradamus (@nowellstradamus) reported 1 hour ago

  @RobTheAlphV @Topps Laurence on Ebay for 10k Bjon on there at $2300 ( not a terrible price imo)

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  Hannah Eden (@HannahEDishman) reported 1 hour ago

  @XRPspider I totally understand your frustration, but you ordered them at a price that you agreed on and you received what you ordered. If you want a lower price you can get it at those locations. I don’t think I would feel comfortable doing this as a seller, but the seller goes to the trouble of finding items that they can mark up. That’s how it works. I resell on eBay. I search for hours for items that are low cost that can be resold. My Free People dress with tags may have only cost me $3 and resell at $50, but the work that I put into finding it at that low price is my job. I’m kind of on the fence on this.

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  sugarshaz👻 (@sugarshaz19) reported 1 hour ago

  @ybtweetz I bought the Summer issues off of eBay