eBay status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

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

• Website Down (61%)
• Sign in (24%)
• Errors (15%)

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
South Ockendon	Sign in	5 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	13 hours ago
Southampton	Errors	20 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	23 hours ago
Valady	Website Down	23 hours ago
London	Sign in	24 hours ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Jamie Mcullough 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@JamieMcullough) reported 2 minutes ago

  The problem is you don’t understand accounting. You’re just looking at revenue. I can resell **** all day on eBay but if I pay $100 for it and sell it for $105, how much did I really make?

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  ultrapampers (@ultrapampers) reported 6 minutes ago

  @RDKLInc @eBay I had a buyer pay $40 for shipping on an item that only cost $24 to ship. All the shipping numbers looked correct, so I had no idea why the buyer was charged that much. I refunded the difference, but wish eBay would fix it.

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  Aoka (@aokanio) reported 6 minutes ago

  the xp pen tablet got refurbished on ebay is great, no problems so far

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  stefanopineda (@stefanopineda) reported 6 minutes ago

  @bot is a really convenient place to run routines (cron jobs). My sister needs a video editing PC so every morning @bot searches eBay for 32GB DDR5 auctions with decent CPUs under $400. Nice to have on Mac / iPhone as opposed to Hermes / Openclaw on server.

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  patric hoi Mr.AverageNerd🇦🇹🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@hoi81_hpi) reported 8 minutes ago

  @LikeToBeBossy Post 2027 you still can buy games from ebay, 2nd hand and for games released Post january 2028 ... a Switch 2 will solve this problem !! It sucks but at the end it doesnt matter if its a Nintendo copy or a Sony copy ... as long as it is a physical copy ;)

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  É 🌼 (@kanekiji) reported 10 minutes ago

  @iateyofather if they are in every fast-fashion (which i don't support) and in most thrift stores (including online ones like threadup, ebay, vinted, poshmark) they are largely available, what do you want more. Now size inclusivity is another issue of course.

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 13 minutes ago

  THE 90s ARE NEXT. The market has spent decades deciding what matters in vintage pop culture. Now it is paying serious money for the cards it has canonised. A 1966 Topps Batman #1 PSA 9 sold for US$131,250 in December. There is no PSA 10. A 1977 Topps Luke Skywalker #1 PSA 10 sold for US$687,500 in May. Seven months earlier, the record was $268,400. These aren't obscure cards being dragged upwards by a hot market. Batman and Star Wars are two of the largest entertainment properties ever created, and collectors have had decades to decide what their early cardboard means. The 50s, 60s and 70s have had their time to become vintage. I think the 90s are next. And the more time I spend digging through the decade, the more obvious the setup looks. The 1990s may have been the greatest decade for character IP ever. You had Mario and Zelda becoming global institutions. Sonic arrived. Pokémon arrived. Toy Story arrived. Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and South Park arrived. Final Fantasy VII changed what a videogame could look and feel like. Street Fighter became a cultural phenomenon. The Simpsons went from a new animated show to one of the defining franchises on television. Thirty years later, look at what survived. Mario is bigger than ever. Pokémon is Pokémon. Sonic is selling movie tickets. Zelda is still one of Nintendo's crown jewels. Resident Evil is still releasing major games. Final Fantasy VII is still important enough to support an entire blockbuster remake project. Toy Story is still being watched by children whose parents watched the original. The Simpsons and South Park apparently intend to outlive all of us. That's an extraordinary hit rate. And the cards were made at exactly the right time. The 90s landed just before collecting became industrialised. There was no mature grading economy. No population reports. No breakers opening cases for numbered parallels. No army of collectors immediately sleeving every card of a major character because it might be worth something in thirty years. A lot of this stuff was treated exactly as intended: as kids' stuff. Japanese vending cards came out of machines. Stickers got stuck to things. Magazine inserts were removed or thrown away with the magazine. Foils went into binders. Cards went into pockets, school bags and bedroom drawers. Nobody was carefully preserving a 1995 Toy Story foil because Woody might eventually need a rookie card. Nobody was thinking about the gem rate on a 1996 Bandai Final Fantasy VII prism. Nobody was buying Japanese Zelda cards and calculating future PSA populations. They were just cards. That gives the decade something modern collectibles can never manufacture after the fact: natural scarcity created before anyone thought scarcity mattered. Then there is the buyer. 1996 is thirty years ago, which feels rude but is useful. The kid who was ten when Pokémon arrived is 40. The teenager who played Final Fantasy VII in 1997 is now somewhere around 40, probably with a mortgage and the financial capacity to make significantly worse decisions on eBay. The generation that grew up with these characters is entering the same part of life where collectors before them started paying serious money to recover pieces of their childhood. Except the underlying franchises never really went away. That is what makes the 90s so interesting to me. The nostalgia is arriving at the same time as the IP is still commercially relevant. And Pokémon has already shown us how far this can go. Pokémon was born in 1996. Its earliest CoroCoro material now sits right at the beginning of one of the largest collectible franchises on earth. Then there is Pikachu Illustrator, created for CoroCoro contests in 1998. This year, the only PSA 10 sold for US$16.492 million. The most expensive trading card ever sold at auction. A 90s character card now sits above Mickey Mantle, Honus Wagner and every other piece of cardboard ever sold publicly at auction. So the idea that the 1990s are somehow too recent to produce serious grails is already dead. Pokémon got there first. I don't think it will be alone. We've spent the last few weeks digging through the rest of the decade and the depth is ridiculous. 1993 Sonic prisms. 1995 Toy Story. 1996 Final Fantasy VII Carddass. 1998 South Park. 1999 Ocarina of Time. Early Resident Evil. Tomb Raider. Street Fighter. The Simpsons. Different countries. Different formats. Different manufacturers. Vending cards, foils, prisms, stickers, lenticulars, magazine issues, cheap American wax. But the same broad setup keeps appearing: enormous IP, childhood-era cardboard and far less high-grade supply than you would expect from franchises this big. The Simpsons already feels like the market beginning to look backwards. Collectors are increasingly treating the 1990 Topps cards and stickers as first-year character material rather than some forgotten junk-wax non-sport set. Pokémon is already fully mature. The rest is earlier. That is why I keep coming back to the 90s. Earlier vintage has already had decades of attention. Batman collectors know the Batman card. Star Wars collectors know the Luke. Disney and comic collectors have spent generations establishing their important early pieces. Modern collectibles have the opposite problem. Everyone knows they're collectibles before the box is even opened. The good cards are identified immediately, sleeved immediately, graded immediately and often hoarded immediately. The 90s sit right between those two worlds. Old enough to have been genuinely used and lost. Recent enough to contain some of the largest IP still operating today. Thirty years of nostalgia. A huge generation of collectors moving into serious earning years. And cardboard produced before people realised they should be protecting it. You could almost design the perfect future vintage market around those conditions. Except we don't have to. It already happened. Batman had fifty-plus years for its cardboard to become canon. Star Wars has had nearly fifty. Pokémon has shown what can happen when a 90s property reaches the same level of collectible maturity. Now look at the class sitting behind it. Mario. Sonic. Link. Cloud. Tifa. Aerith. Resident Evil. Lara Croft. Woody and Buzz. The Simpsons. South Park. Street Fighter. Some of the most recognisable characters of the last thirty years, attached to cards produced before anyone had a reason to treat them like future financial assets. I think the market eventually does what it has always done with culturally important things. It looks backwards. It decides what mattered. Then it pays for the best surviving examples. The 50s had their turn. The 60s had their turn. The 70s are going absolutely ******* nuts right now. Pokémon has already broken the door down for the 90s. The rest of the decade is only a matter of time.

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  Mayonnaise (@BeefStewtoo) reported 18 minutes ago

  @dorkburger84 It’s down to like 90. I gotta find a few more auctions. They sell wicked fast on eBay

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  Midnightpulls JP (@midnightpullsjp) reported 18 minutes ago

  @CardGameNomad Don't just shut down eBay sales, force eBay to share the seller's personal information and sue these people into the ground. They all deserve to win stupid prizes for playing stupid games. Also applies to everyone selling these packs/cards anywhere else, mind you.

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  Chris (@DrDude1985) reported 19 minutes ago

  @SSGSentinel That's a No for me, dawg. When it was announced years ago I was stoked. But this was before Spider-Man 2 and everything. We're talking 2020 maybe? Forever ago. I LOVE SM1. But I passed on SM2 after everything I saw online and I'm passing on Wolverine as well. Perhaps a sale in the future or a used copy on eBay much later on down the road. At least a year or two from launch. I'm not impressed with what I've seen and all the usual tactics are being deployed from the AAA industry and it's shills. Like Yotei and SM2 all over again.

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  Dutch Tender Guy (@dutchtenderguy) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Sweatypalmssss But we’ve done that and the stock is down by a lot. I think the problem is poor capital allocation. Sat on cash, wasted some on bitcoin, diluted for a low return eBay acquisition.

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  Zach Alt (@ZachAltmyer) reported 28 minutes ago

  A2A tips (discontinued product edition): 1. Set alerts (FlipAlert, Keepa, etc.) on all discontinued products. You never know when Amazon will find a box in the back of their warehouse 2. Don’t buy deep right away just because you found out it was discontinued. Check how much total inventory is floating around at Amazon and other retailers first. I’ve made the mistake of jumping in way too early and tying up cash flow for months 3. For health & beauty items, put in a small order to check expiration dates before committing capital. It tells you how much time you have to sell through before you’re stuck holding expired product 4. If you have a buy and hold that has an order quantity limit, you can order 27 per week to keep stacking 5. Products going in and out of stock is a sign a product can be discontinued, especially if it can’t be found at any other major retailers. If these two line up, I like to reach out to the brand to confirm 6. If you can’t find the product on the brand’s own website, it’s a good sign it’s discontinued. Not guaranteed since some brands are just slow to update or reorganizing their site but it’s a good first check before digging further 7. Set alerts for third party sellers too. Sometimes a 3P seller doesn’t realize a product is discontinued or lists it lower by mistake and you can flip it back on eBay 8. Put your top items in the saved for later list. Sometimes you can catch Amazon in stock before monitors and alerts go off 9. Check if the discontinued product has a replacement or reformulation. If people still want the original over the new version, that opens up opportunity. If there’s no replacement at all, even better 10. Discontinued isn't always permanent. Brands can bring products back with new packaging, size changes, or just changing their minds. Always verify but don't assume discontinued always means gone forever

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  Tomorrow, and other days I remember (@tomorrow99529) reported 31 minutes ago

  @BowTiedBroke Similar thing happened to me on eBay. Fraudulent claim, eBay banned me from selling the product and no response or fix even when I showed them the 35 sellers (Chinese) listing the same product (

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  Anthony Eckert (@EckertAnthony) reported 34 minutes ago

  @samuraix yea you can but i think new in box is king. i sold all my stuff overtime on ebay for decent even though it was used. unless it inflated a lot recently its always been trending decent when i check. id get games if storage wasnt a problem

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  B&S (@bohdanslava) reported 35 minutes ago

  In 1999, a person listed a human kidney on eBay starting at $25,000. Within days, the bidding skyrocketed past $5,000,000 before eBay shut it down. Meanwhile, water—the single most essential element for human survival—was selling for pennies. In 1776, Adam Smith posed the exact same puzzle: why are life-saving goods almost free, while useless shiny rocks cost millions? The answer isn't utility. It's the intersection of marginal supply and demand. In his introductory Microeconomics lecture at MIT, Jonathan Gruber uses this to teach one fundamental law: Constrained Optimization. Markets don't reward intrinsic value or moral necessity. They reward scarcity and the next best alternative. Every financial decision comes down to Opportunity Cost. When you allocate $10,000 into a stagnant asset or sit in cash, you aren't just holding money—you are paying a silent tax in the form of every yield you gave up elsewhere. The gap between market price and real value is where smart money generates alpha. Gruber has taught this at MIT for over two decades. His students went on to draft federal policies and manage billions in capital. They all learned it from the same starting principle: you never buy an asset in isolation; you buy it against its opportunity cost. Bookmark this before your next portfolio allocation. $SPX $BTC $QQQ

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  Reactor Vault (@reactorvault) reported 36 minutes ago

  Trying out bumping our eBay promotions down to 2%. Saw a video of a guy that still had success doing that so we will see.

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  nepo🚬tist (@BTComment) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Cryptoinsightuk Good luck Iran. I failed to mention my $148 eBay income on my taxes in 2005 and the IRS hunted me down like Saddam Hussein

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  Neos Enthusiast (@CyanicValor) reported 38 minutes ago

  @island_xd The T1 bunfle is like… okay ish to buy online. My issue is the amount of people with like 5 of them in their ebay shop cause they circumvented the rules. The real scalper problem is when product intended for play is all bought out to scalp and hard to get because of it.

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  Brian Lindenmeyer | Lindy (@theOGLindy) reported 40 minutes ago

  Time to swap to a Tesla UWC from this POS Rivian J1772 charger that is the third one broken under warranty. Lucky buyer if I don’t trade in the R1S will get a J1772 charger with it. Otherwise I’ll sell it on eBay in box.

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  M3tr0n01d - SLURturabo (@m3tr0n01d) reported 41 minutes ago

  Seeing the crying coming from "Black Library collector" circles because all of the "special editions" ended up on eBay - again, 3rd time this week... You guys are the problem. Stop whining, petitioning and realize that artificial scarcity is what GW wants.

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  alexis ꕤ (@lexs_version) reported 42 minutes ago

  @soitgoeslexi tbh, this feels kind of sketchy to me. i feel like if a parent stepped in and provided an id, ebay would have no issues releasing the funds. I would be very hesitant to do this

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  Skol Geek (@SkolGeek) reported 42 minutes ago

  @MrKdub Sell it… then buy the same card back on eBay when the card prices come back down. This is 100% temporary and artificially inflated.

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  DrVoodoo🐉🥋 (@Drvoodooo) reported 46 minutes ago

  They will go on eBay within the same week. No issue at all

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  THE MINUTEMAN FILES: (@Wefactcheckedit) reported 47 minutes ago

  The site proved to be a 100% waste of time there is zero help from staff not even a simple phone for issues Ai has destroyed the site for small sellers & is suppressing there ads so big corporate sellers can profit the site ebay delibrelty removes all bad feedback to protect them

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  ItsMeCooper (@ItsaMeCooper) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Rakermoon I saw a post with a communication from ebay that took down the listing so I really hope they keep doing this

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  Scott Nodine 🎥📷 (@TheNodine) reported 49 minutes ago

  @hdreport Yes, it's worth it. I found a Sony UBP-X700 at a thrift store the same as you, with no power cord or remote. For $6. Thankfully I had a working player and remote at home that I bought at retail that I could immediately test the thift find with. After running it though a series of tests, I found no issues, and ended up with a backup player. 👍 Because I like to have a complete backup solution, I ended up buying a new old stock OEM Sony power cord and original remote for the backup thifted player on eBay.

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  stefanopineda (@stefanopineda) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bot is a really convenient place to run routines (cron jobs). My sister needs a video editing PC so every morning @bot searches eBay for 32GB DDR5 auctions with decent CPUs under $400. Nice to have on Mac / iPhone as opposed to Hermes / OpenClaw on server.

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  ✰ Rusty ✰ Superhans summer ! (@rvngefrnkk) reported 56 minutes ago

  the way i’ve sat my da down and gone through records and cds of mine that are to be thrown on ebay for a profit immediately in the event of me keeling over like it actually is that serious marty girl make a wee penny x

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  Miguel 'Mike' Denyer (@Capwild) reported 58 minutes ago

  Every ******* time. I swear Facebook Marketplace needs a special button somewhere between "Message Seller" and "Is This Available?" that simply says: "This has absolutely ****-all to do with me, so I'll keep scrolling." Apparently, however, that level of self-control remains beyond a surprisingly large percentage of the population. I'm currently selling several tactical backpacks, operator attachés and patrol bags. They are brand new, most are still in the original packaging with the tags attached, and I'm selling them for less than their normal retail price. Some of them I originally acquired through BOGO promotions. Others I bought individually. Enter Fucknuts McGinty, Marketplace Economic Correspondent and apparently self-appointed Guardian of Other People's Transactions: "You can get two of them for that price from their website." First of all... No, you ******* can't. The price I'm asking is about $40 LESS than what you'd currently pay for the equivalent purchase. But even if you could, allow me to introduce you to a revolutionary concept apparently absent from whatever remedial economics course you attended: A BOGO promotion does not mean the second item has no value. It means I bought one item at full retail price and received another item as part of the transaction. Now I own both. They're mine. I can keep them. I can give one to a friend. I can donate one to charity. I can fill one with ******* jellybeans and bury it in the garden as a time capsule. Or... And stay with me here because this is where **** gets complicated... I can sell it. What I paid for an item has absolutely ****-all to do with what that item is worth to somebody else. If I buy something for $100 and the store gives me another one as part of a promotion, that does not magically require me to give the second one away. I'm offering someone the opportunity to buy a brand-new item for less than the normal retail price without having to spend the additional money required to qualify for whatever promotion happened to exist when I bought it. Buyer saves money. I recover some money. Everybody involved in the transaction benefits. Nobody is being deceived. Nobody is being ripped off. No laws are being broken. Capitalism continues functioning. The Earth remains in orbit. Civilization somehow survives another ******* day. Which brings me to the part I genuinely don't understand: Why ******** do some people feel compelled to complain about transactions they have absolutely no intention of participating in? Don't like my price? Don't buy it. Think you've found it cheaper somewhere else? Buy it there. Already own seventeen of the ******* things? Congratulations. Keep scrolling. There are literally thousands of other Marketplace listings available for you to look at. Yet somehow there is always that one miserable bastard who apparently cannot make it through his day without finding SOMETHING, somewhere, involving complete strangers, that he can ***** and whine about. The truly remarkable part is that my selling this bag has precisely ZERO effect on his life. I didn't knock on his door. I didn't empty his bank account. I didn't hold his dog hostage until he bought a tactical backpack. I posted an item for sale. That's it. Somebody wants it at my asking price, they buy it. Somebody doesn't want it at my asking price, they don't. This incredibly sophisticated economic system has successfully operated at yard sales, flea markets, gun shows, classified ads, eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace for ******* decades. Yet apparently we're still struggling with: "If you don't want the ******* thing, don't buy the ******* thing." There. I've just condensed several centuries of free-market economics into twelve words. You're ******* welcome.

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  Nekcro (@_Nekcro_) reported 1 hour ago

  Glad I was awake to get my doom eagles hoodie this morning. You know damn well those mfers gonna end up on ebay listed for a down payment on a car in a month