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 (23%)
• Errors (16%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Manchester	Website Down	5 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	11 hours ago
Hayward	Website Down	18 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	23 hours ago
Telford	Sign in	1 day ago
Green Lane	Errors	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mr_Bastard James (@james_bastard) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ArmaLite15OU812 Seriously. We want to pay less for everything across the board. Also work on better tax laws. Tired of paying tax on everything. If something is purchased once. Sold through eBay or something. Shouldn't pay tax again. That's robbery. Fix the IRS.

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  Art Ram🇺🇦🟦 (@ArtRam10382404) reported 12 minutes ago

  @eBay What's happening, 3 packages in a row claiming delivered, and nothing or fraud, I got email to refund one, another on process, the third one im probably forget about it, and avoiding eBay for a while, never had this issues shopping on ur site, don't understand.

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  🩸 Rabbit 🩸Vampire Autism (@MaskedRabbitt) reported 12 minutes ago

  @qirvanas He is! I've had him for a little over a year and I sleep with him every night, no tears or rips or any issues, he was about 15 dollars on ebay though I'm unsure if there's any listings around that price now

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  Gray Hoodie (@grayhoodie) reported 20 minutes ago

  @WavysTV @XBOX Go on eBay to every one of these listings, select “Report” -> “Product or Listing” -> “A problem in the listing” -> “Presale” and then enter something like “Greater than 40 days before release (November 13). Estimated shipping date is fraudulent. “

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  Yaboybroke 🐍 🐶 (@OKokokokok4444) reported 22 minutes ago

  @quan_eth Just attempted to get some cards graded on GCG and the website is not working. I’m buying every value pick up on EBay that I can. All Pristine grades

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  MPT (@mypublictwit7er) reported 22 minutes ago

  @VirtuallyMarti Problem with this is it forces people to buy pins they may not even want just to trade. Lessens the chance of people who actually want them getting them due to people buying them up-- many who are those same Ebay people.

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  Monkey D. Rell (@prometheusRel34) reported 23 minutes ago

  @eBay going to basically full AI support id fn terrible. Can't get an answer to a simple fn question. Guess imma go to mecari after all. Less fees on top of it

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  Tarra 🇵🇸 (@freesickdepravd) reported 26 minutes ago

  Since eBay is still refusing to do anything I reported the issue to PayPal to at least get my money back hopefully

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  MEGACARDINVESTOR (@ALTPEPEEEEEEE) reported 27 minutes ago

  @isBlessedaWish The only thing is, even if I got a sale on eBay, there’s an issue with international shipping as I reckon there will be much international interest. It lays heavily on the seller to ship it, insure and because of the amount, there would be no authentication guaranteed. It’s way too risky unless the buyer came in person to pick it up and the deal was made with a wire. Even for a domestic sale, I’d be extremely wary of shipping on my own this card to a buyer or eBay. The burden should lie with the auction house. Fanatics will send you an insured label for next day shipping to their location. Be better to just hop on a plane and drop it off.

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  Jimmy Garant (@JimmyGaran81046) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak @C37484Olibher It doesn't cost anything to open another account. Why go to the trouble if its just a personal buy-crap-from-ebay account?

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  Cody (@cody0xx) reported 33 minutes ago

  A Yale professor recorded one semester of game theory in 2007 that quietly explains how Google, eBay, and every ad exchange on earth pulls over $500 billion a year out of advertisers' pockets. Yale charges $86,000 a year to sit in that classroom. He put every lecture on Yale Open Courses in 2008 for free. Millions of people have watched. Almost no retail trader, founder, or negotiator has ever actually used the framework. His name is Ben Polak — Yale professor, former Provost of Yale, and one of the most-watched university lecturers in internet history. The 62-minute clip here is one lecture from ECON 159: Game Theory, taught to a packed auditorium of Yale undergrads in the fall of 2007. Over 24 lectures, Polak builds the entire mathematical foundation of strategic decision-making from the ground up. Dominant strategies. If one option beats every other option no matter what your opponent does, you take it — end of discussion. The reason the rest of game theory even exists is that dominant strategies almost never show up in real life. Nash equilibria. The point where nobody can improve their outcome by switching strategy on their own. Almost every price you've ever paid is a Nash equilibrium. Every wage negotiation, every auction bid, every trade in a market with millions of participants — it all converges to one, whether the people involved know it or not. Auctions. The mathematical difference between first-price sealed-bid, second-price sealed-bid, English ascending, and Dutch descending auctions is worth billions of dollars a year to whoever's running the auction. Google Ads runs on a modified second-price auction. eBay is an English ascending auction with proxy bidding baked in. Treasury bill sales run Dutch descending. Each format squeezes a different amount of value out of bidders — and almost none of them know which format they're actually playing. Evolutionary strategies. Why cooperation sometimes beats betrayal in games that repeat. Why the dead-simple tit-for-tat rule outperformed every sophisticated algorithm entered in Robert Axelrod's famous 1980 tournament. Why nearly every stable business relationship on earth, if you look closely, is just tit-for-tat wearing a suit. Every hedge fund pays entry-level quants specifically to walk in the door already knowing this. Every big tech company hires PhD game theorists just to design their pricing pages. Every major M&A negotiation gets priced by consultants who bill $2 million a deal to apply these exact same equations. Here's the first rule Polak teaches, every single semester, without fail: "Never play a strictly dominated strategy." He calls it the one rule game theory is completely certain about — zero exceptions. And retail traders break it constantly, every time they add to a losing position, because taking the loss feels worse in the moment than doubling down does. The lectures are free on Yale Open Courses. The 2007 problem sets and exams are still sitting online. Every equation Polak derives fits in under thirty pages of a textbook. The math costs nothing. Sitting through 24 hours of game theory before you open a bid box, a trading terminal, or walk into a negotiation — that's the rare part. Far rarer than the confidence to walk in without it.

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  Cait Sith Apologist (@FizzOpera) reported 35 minutes ago

  @norainthefuture eBay being like two blocks down isn’t helping. Like “come bring everything here and we will help you list it”

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  TheHoundoomGuy (@TheHoundoomGuy) reported 36 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay tell me how I’ve sold thousands and thousands in your app but now I can’t search anything because nothing pops up??? Please fix this don’t do me like this 😢

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  nyart (@nyartcollector) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Adam76306407 @clarkknowscards If you only sell on eBay or other platforms that remit for you you’re good to go without any issues. In person sales really only time you need to worry.

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  Punished_Droid (@DroidAngry) reported 37 minutes ago

  @loverboyaaa Can't go wrong with a Lenovo Ideapad either. I used to hunt for ones with bad batteries and just fix them and flip on Ebay. Easy fix

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  älëx (PJ) (@agixjones) reported 38 minutes ago

  @RecoveriX__HQ @eBay I’ve submitted multiple reports to eBay, and both times they determined that the seller was not in violation. The seller claimed he provided me with a return label, but he never did. eBay then instructed me to resolve the issue directly with the seller, but he hasn’t answered.

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  BTI (@garbmad) reported 38 minutes ago

  Why does EBay govern what is art? Their AI will write a description. I’m trying to list a rare large hand pulled screen-print from the 60’s that clearly has Standard Oil station & VW bus in the artiest photo & that appears to be the problem. Ebay wants it to be listed as an automotive part. I just noticed it. 11 months listed & ONE view. Ebay is awful with art collectors. Who’s better for high end pieces where you don’t loose full control ( ie a Heritage where you have to ship to them ) @eBay @ValueAddedRS

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  Ayush Patel (@ayushp81) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Teslaconomics @SpaceXAI @cursor_ai I'd set a bot loose on my garage of dead electronics. It looks up every model, finds the repair guides and parts, prices them on eBay, and builds me a 'fix or sell' list. Then a second bot lists whatever it says to sell

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  Founder Tribune (@Founder_Tribune) reported 39 minutes ago

  Sheryl Sandberg on the best hiring pitch she's ever received: Sandberg is talking about what her parents taught her. Working on things that matter, and doing "the right thing for the right reason." She's blunt about the unglamorous part: "all the stuff out there on grit and determination and working in things that are challenging is all true." There's "no substitute for hard work." But hard work alone isn't the lesson. The lesson is who it's for. "We need to remind kids that they're not just doing for them, they're contributing. And we need to remind people of that in the workplace." Then she tells the story she calls the best hiring experience she's ever had, the one she put in Lean In. Lori Goler was at eBay in marketing. She called Sandberg when Sandberg went to Facebook and said: "I think I want to come work with you at Facebook." What came next is the part worth stealing: "So, I thought I'd call you and tell you all the things I like to do and all the things I'm good at, but I figure everyone's doing that. So, instead, I'm going to call you and say, 'What's your biggest problem and how can I solve it?'" Sandberg's frustration is that the story is famous and nobody copies it: "Lean In sold millions of copies, millions of people have hopefully read at least part of the book... But I don't see that many people coming into the workplace asking what they can do for the company." Her promise, if you flip it: "Ask what you can do. I promise you will get mentors, you will get sponsors, you will get results, you will get promotions, you will get opportunities by contributing." And the reason the self-focused version fails: "If it is about you, it won't happen because organizations are not about you." Organizations are about their mission. "And when you serve that mission, and when you work hard towards the betterment of the people around you. And I think I learned that at home, that's where real success comes from." The obvious move here is to treat "what's your biggest problem?" as a networking script. Sandberg closes that door herself: "But you can't fake it. You can't be like, 'I'm going to pretend to care about everyone else in our mission to get myself ahead.' That won't work. You actually have to care." Which turns the whole thing into a filtering problem rather than a technique. If the caring has to be real, then the decision that matters happens before the interview: "So, you have to go work someplace with people you can care about and with a mission you can care about."

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  Mr_Pool_Shot (@Mr_Pool_Shot) reported 40 minutes ago

  @eBay IT take a special kind of stupid to have a broken search system this long.

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 43 minutes ago

  Einstein never made a dollar from relativity. The Wright brothers flew the first plane and died broke. Every railroad baron who connected a continent went bankrupt. They created everything. They captured nothing. Google made $50,000,000,000 in one year selling search. Airlines moved 800,000,000 passengers and made approximately zero profit across their entire 100-year history. One is more important to civilization. The other is worth four times more. Peter Thiel spent one Stanford lecture explaining why - and why most people have it completely backwards. This is Stanford, How to Start a Startup. He called it Competition is for Losers. He opens with one formula: value created times percent captured. X times Y. The mistake everyone makes is thinking X and Y move together. Then the lies. Monopolies pretend they are not monopolies - Google calls itself an advertising company. 3.5% of a $500,000,000,000 market. Not a monopoly - just a minnow in an ocean. Startups with nothing unique do the opposite. They call themselves the only British restaurant in Palo Alto. Then the small market rule. Amazon started as a bookstore. PayPal started with 20,000 eBay power sellers. Facebook started with 10,000 people at Harvard - 0 to 60% market share in 10 days. Everyone called these markets too small to matter. That was the point. Then last mover. 75% of a tech company's value comes from cash flows after year 10. First mover gets a one-third **** advantage. Last mover wins the game. The question is never who got there first. The question is who stays. Then the personal story. Thiel graduated Stanford, got a job at a top New York firm everyone wanted to enter and everyone wanted to leave. Left after 7 months and 3 days. A colleague told him: it's reassuring to see you leave. I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz. All you had to do was walk out the front door. Watch the moment he redefines loser. We think losers are people who can't compete. He argues the real losers are the ones who compete hardest - in markets so crowded that winning means capturing nothing. A founder I know replayed this before turning down a Series A that wanted him to go after a larger market. Said it was the first time saying no to money felt like strategy rather than fear. Free on YouTube, Stanford. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every crowded market you see will feel like a sign someone already lost

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  kristal (@kristalshay) reported 44 minutes ago

  Apparently this is an app issue and the search function works fine on a browser. eBay needs to get their **** together.

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  Recliner (@Recliningdad) reported 44 minutes ago

  @RobertMSterling @EODHappyCaptain @LEGO_Group Yea even Lego gets hit by the repackage/return scam. Happens all the time in tech. And some of the Amazon 3rd party sellers seem to have an error rate approaching some of the eBay stuff now. High trust societies are important for a lot of reasons.

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  TheEagle (@_PatrioticEagle) reported 49 minutes ago

  This is ridiculous. @eBay you need to stop using this gofo express garbage. They dump packages outside, their delivery people take pics and then steal the package (they dump packages outside, take a pic to say it's delivered, and then steal the package). We can do nothing. These are the worst scum imaginable. Their entire operation need to be shut down. They don't even hire people that speak English. @GOFOSupport

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  POKEGRID CARD CO. (@POKEGRIDCC) reported 52 minutes ago

  @radioofam @CardPurchaser I've had the same issue happen a few times. Unfortunately, some buyers will receive the card and take advantage of this. Calling eBay customer support is the best way to handle this situation. eBay will refund the buyer on their end and you will be able to keep the funds.

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  G (@gianmt) reported 53 minutes ago

  @eBay @askebay Of course I’ve done that first, but you need to be logged in, see my problem?

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  John Goetz (@GoetzItSold) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ChuckDeVore @***** Having kids play sports all over has forced me into stores across the country Massive difference in certain areas as many of their stores are now designed to prevent loss Terrible shopping experience Easier to wait a day from Amazon or buy off eBay

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  Schoencards (@BourbonInvestm2) reported 58 minutes ago

  @justinkadesport The problem is, this is what sellers were doing a long while ago. Marking shipping high, and pocketing proceeds. This is why ebay changed it up and started charging a fee on top of shipping. Looks like round two is here

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  ed from da bronx (@BronxCardsFan) reported 60 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser anyone having search issues on eBay? Every search I’m doing is coming back as zero items found

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  SWAT (@SWATZ911) reported 1 hour ago

  @ALTPEPEEEEEEE I’m same way. Probably purchased 500 cards on eBay so far this year. I may have a problem.