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	4 hours ago
Gateshead	Website Down	5 hours ago
Preston	Website Down	9 hours ago
Cuyahoga Falls	Errors	12 hours ago
Dagenham	Sign in	12 hours ago
Dagenham	Website Down	12 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Vlad Green (@VladislavGreene) reported 8 minutes ago

  $GME My 2 cents about GME buying eBay. 50% cash 50% stock. If GME market cap $10B and Ebay's $40B, so it's 20/80 split, but as GME pays out 50% cash it bring us to 80/2 = 40%, so in the end 60/40. 60% GME shareholders and 40% eBay's in the new company. Case 1 (basic): GME has 450000000 shares outstanding. To keep the 60/40 split GME need to issue 300000000 new shares to the eBay shareholders. Total after deal = 750000000 shares. If the NEW company has $60B market cap the share price after deal is done = $80. Case 2 (diluted): Including the 144000000 Senior Convertible Notes + 59000000 Warrants = 651000000 total GME fully diluted shares. To keep the same 60/40 split GME needs to issue 434000000 new shares to eBay's people. Total after = 1085000000 shares. If New GME has $60B market cap the share price = ~$55.30.

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  sners | #1 barbara gordon himejoshi (@snarbages) reported 9 minutes ago

  if absolute cass lets me down just know @DCOfficial its minimum 20 ebay witches on your head

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 10 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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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 11 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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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 12 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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  b0bba (@b0bbaTV) reported 13 minutes ago

  @OsirisOrigins Yep! Same! I hated having it weight my limp wrists down and getting buzzed with notifications all the time. I’ve put mine on eBay. I had a discount code so put it to good use 🧑‍💻 I must’ve ✨manifested✨ it!!

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  Greg (@Greg13868007) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AMCbiggums Meanwhile #GME is long EBAY and making money on that. Could be a massive squeeze in GME if this ends up not working out!

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  Cyber Samurai (@_hustleandgrow) reported 19 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK @eBay you need fire whoever is running your websites. Total shambles, total fraud. Your website is down, your app is down. Dog ****. Your shareholders should sue you all.

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  Vlad Green (@VladislavGreene) reported 21 minutes ago

  $GME My 2 cents about GME buying eBay. 50% cash 50% stock. If GME market cap $10B and Ebay's $40B, so it's 20/80 split, but as GME pays out 50% cash it bring us to 80/2 = 40%, so in the end 60/40. 60% GME shareholders and 40% eBay's in the new company. The stock portion is $27.75B (half of the $125 offer). Case 1 (basic): GME has 450000000 shares outstanding. To keep the 60/40 split GME need to issue 300000000 new shares to the eBay shareholders. $27.75B / 300000000 = $92.50 implied issuance price. Total after deal = 750000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price after deal = $92.50. Case 2 (diluted): Including the 144000000 Senior Convertible Notes + 59000000 Warrants = 651000000 total GME fully diluted shares. To keep the same 60/40 split GME needs to issue 434000000 new shares to eBay's people. $27.75B / 434000000 = ~$63.94 implied issuance price. Total after = 1085000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price = ~$63.94.

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 21 minutes ago

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

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 21 minutes ago

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

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  M B (@checkem888) reported 22 minutes ago

  @ryancohen Why ******** are you trying to build a Berkshire Hathaway clone and have done nothing to stop predatory shorts holding down the price of gme? Why would they just short ******** out of eBay too?

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  Balance Sheets Matter (@BSheetsMatter) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Comedyorwat @eBay $GME is down since RC become chair and ceo while EBay is up over 100%+ in those 2 periods of time

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  Mark M (@iwasmmueller88) reported 25 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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  Sep 🌸⚔️ (@venom_cipher) reported 27 minutes ago

  @vvvvioll And then returned to the seller. When I tried to contact them, I found that their eBay account was entirely gone. $80 USD down the drain… I did end up getting them from Best Buy a few years later though!

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  Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) reported 28 minutes ago

  This is a good callout - eBay provides some tools to manage who can buy/bid but blocking 0 feedback buyers isn't on list. While it's understandable eBay doesn't want to discourage new buyers, it's also a real problem for sellers especially on high $/high fraud risk items. It should be at seller's discretion on per item basis.

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  Richard (@standards4ppl) reported 30 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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  John Carletto (@jcarletto27) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PayPal My paypal account of 18 years was permanently blocked this morning, with no reason given. Your support staff has been less than helpful. I use paypal every week for automated payments, Apple, Google play, and Ebay purchases. I have not broken your TOS.

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  Joel Mendoza (@JoelMendoz63815) reported 40 minutes ago

  @BrdcastMediaGuy @eBay If there’s an issue and you want your money back, go to the items listing and select the start refund option. It will force the seller to either refund you with no return or communicate what you want done. eBay will hold their funds until the problem is resolved

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  Matt Henderson (@MattxH) reported 41 minutes ago

  @StonksMae You will be diluted and there is no reason eBay would want to pay down a debt you obtained in order to buy it. It makes no sense, Cohen isn’t worth a debt burden on the company. You’re literally better off selling GME and buying eBay.

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  Hickey (@asheme62) reported 42 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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  Killa Koyote (@KoyoteKilla) reported 45 minutes ago

  @tm1515152005 If selling a card for under $20, use eBay Standard Shipping. It costs around $1 to $2. You are insured up to $20 if anything happens to the card. There are a lot of issues with tracking these, they typically say "delivered" a few days earlier, and buyers become confused.

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  It’s Maina (@maina_dilemma) reported 47 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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  Ađam (@thetrgrf) reported 47 minutes ago

  @jmeredith2015 @NewAgeCardKings @Scott_YaDigg i mainly priced them how i did since they are sealed and i went off eBay last solds for sealed. Would you be willing to call it $14 and $19. I also have 2 eevees so if you wanted both id be down to just call each eevee $17. I know youre going off raw pricing but they are sealed.

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  ElevatedPNW (@dustino20371995) reported 50 minutes ago

  @business @opinion In some cases eBay won’t have a choice. They have fiduciary duty issues, and I’m sure with close inspection from the inside, it’s much bigger than that. I’m here to FAFO, do your thing Ryan, I’m more than impressed what u did with chewy, then the turnaround at GameStop. I’ve got my money on Ryan all ******* day long. I smell blood in the water.

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  bobby (@lisiraill) reported 51 minutes ago

  @PhantomBlack699 @birdzone24 @ryancohen GME holders cannot live on fresh air. We are entitled to make a profit the same way as Ryan Cohen makes profit on Apple stocks. It is not cool the way the GME holders are expected to live on a fresh air and go broke watching a billionaire talk about his baby in eBay, you can correct me if I am wrong explain to me how GME holders are meant to survive when the stock keeps going down. I know delusion was supposed to believe a billionaire.

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  Poor_Vida 💣💥 (@johnny_glue) reported 52 minutes ago

  @MemeStockMillyz The thing that is so weird to me, is that not only was there an EBAY tab on Gamestops Investor Relations page BEFORE ebay even responded to the offer. But, its still there. You would think they would have taken it down by now

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  Randolph Duke 🇺🇸 (@RandolphDuke7) reported 52 minutes ago

  @EconomPic Raise equity? I didn't say that. Issue equity to EBAY shareholders. The market cap and EV structure that you cite is not an immutable law of gravity. Low probability, but not zero. This is what I find so funny here. That traditional fundamentalists can't engage in

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  Jake Friedel (@zebular0) reported 52 minutes ago

  @__deadguy @aaaaaaaaa171039 @markusen I honestly can't believe there are any bears right now. People bitching for years Ryan has no plan for the cash, he gives a plan and they freak out because price went down a couple bucks. We're either about to get ebay or leave with a **** ton of money and share price is $22 lol.

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  Law (@BlchrCreature27) reported 59 minutes ago

  @rnewton7777 RC's approach would be easier is GME was at $50-60. Issue shares, take in the cash, fund the eBay purchase. A legacy swap roll in the coming months might set it up. Wonder if there's a trigger available to light the fuse? Either way, selling CCs and CSPs. #GoodMorningEveryone