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 (15%)

Live Outage Map

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	21 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	23 hours ago
Valady	Website Down	23 hours ago
London	Sign in	1 day ago

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Community Discussion

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eBay Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mark (@imlasvegasmark) reported 3 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser Idiots that don't use the Ebay Envelope system that puts tracking to the customer. This complicates issues and doesn't put the customer in the loop. This is the one way I will never buy from anyone again.

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  Broseph Smith (@brosephsmith420) reported 4 minutes ago

  I had to consult the Oracles (ai chatbots) to figure out the proper spell (prompt) to use in order to summon the demon (ebay customer service employee (actually quite nice)) to solve the issue Looks like everything will be resolved now. Let it be known that you CAN access a human on ebay customer support, if you're a powerful enough wizard

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  Xeno 👾🤖 KONTON (@XenomorphSlay3r) reported 8 minutes ago

  @FNAF_ScottGames Peak stop motion trailer. The only issue I have with these is the limited stock that keeps getting vacuumed up by scalpers, I cant find these ANYWHERE besides on ebay for triple the retail value. Its very frustrating cuz these are the best figures weve ever gotten

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  Coach DJ ⚽ (@CoachDSMJ) reported 9 minutes ago

  Ever get the feeling to just spend $ on Amazon or eBay? LOL.... Surely you need SOMETHING right? :) My problem with this is that I end up with new coaching or training gear! ⚽

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  Zach Alt (@ZachAltmyer) reported 14 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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  stefanopineda (@stefanopineda) reported 15 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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  Sergeant_Spyro (➡️ MFF 2026!) (@Sergeant_Spyro) reported 16 minutes ago

  Point is: **** resellers. If you enjoy the interest genuinely, and either play it or collect the rares for your personal long-term investment, I dont see a problem with that. But the recent "buy the whole stock and resell for 3x the price on Ebay" meta pisses me tf off.

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  Wesley A Zietlow (@3rdZof4) reported 18 minutes ago

  R other ppl experiencing a huge problem lately with @eBay standard shipping and @USPS as a seller and a buyer!? i have bought multiple cards that say delivered yet nothing arrives, and sold many cards with no scans that they were delivered!?loss of $ and no card! @CardPurchaser

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  Crshamo (@crshamo) reported 18 minutes ago

  Ebay image search is not working on my iPhone? Anyone have suggestions?

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  Vintage Japanese Pokémon Cards (@VintagePokeCard) reported 18 minutes ago

  @PokeCardsDaily I keep a pretty close eye on eBay too, but I rarely find any real bargains. I guess it all comes down to timing.

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  Kenan Fernsby (@KenanFernsby) reported 20 minutes ago

  @HustleBitch_ The so and so’s even use non conventional fasteners and so on to stop you trying to fix a car yourself. Here’s the thing with the CEL though: buy an OBD2 WiFi plug in off eBay for $10 and download a free app. Read and reset “fault codes” to your heart’s content. For free👍

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  Terry Shadley (@TheTerryShadley) reported 23 minutes ago

  @tresamigos858 I had one of my PCs i put up on eBay last week and then about an hour later I rushed and took it down. lol.

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  Roadkill_Lurch (@Roadkill_Lurch) reported 26 minutes ago

  eBay when selling: It was an issue on our end that caused the item not to ship to the right location, but ultimately we’re going to force a refund out of you to make the buyer happy. eBay when buying: Oh your item didn’t arrive? I mean geez sucks to be you I guess….

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  tess (@nunshabit) reported 32 minutes ago

  @TheWarRoomNZ 'Castle Doctrine'.... covered under S 55 of The Crimes Act. We have window-decals placed all round our house depicting a Cowboy on horseback holding a rifle in the air. Text reads.... "INSURED BY WINCHESTER" Never once have we been broken into. Got them off ebay.

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  PokeNotify (@PokeNotifyX) reported 32 minutes ago

  🚨 30TH ANNIVERSARY CRACKDOWN 🚨 Reports are circulating online that eBay has started REMOVING early listings for leaked 30th Anniversary Pokémon TCG products 👀 Pictured is a look at what sellers are reporting when trying to list 30th Celebration products for sale on eBay. Looks like getting these cards months early just got a whole lot harder… What do you think about this move down below? 👇 #30thCelebration #Pokemon30 #Pokemonnews

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  Bid Sniper for eBay (@Myibidder) reported 33 minutes ago

  Try to resolve your issue with the seller directly before opening a case on eBay #MyibidderTips

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  Big Josh (@bziddy) reported 33 minutes ago

  After searching for a $2 card I sold for 10 minutes, I'm about to pull down my ebay store an relist everything with a better organization system. Something similar to what @allset24 has shown.

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  The Tatted Gentleman (@DCole85) reported 33 minutes ago

  @pokemartalerts Problem is most of these will be on eBay later today....

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  Vernaculist (@vernaculist) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Wefactcheckedit @ebay is terrible, do NOT SELL ON EBAY, you will lose money

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 37 minutes ago

  @VirtualJames @eBay Yes eBay’s international shipping prices are so inflated that it’s practically killed the global shipping program. This problem i mention is compounding the international issue.

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 38 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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  Midnightpulls JP (@midnightpullsjp) reported 40 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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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 44 minutes ago

  Someone runs a full Linux server in his apartment with 8 Xeon cores, 16 GB of RAM, and gigabit fiber, and now this video shows he pays $18 in electricity for the same specs AWS charges $350 a month for. The exact configuration on the screen: Debian 13 (trixie), kernel 6.12, x86_64. Intel Xeon with AVX2, AVX-512, AMX, AES, and VT-x. 8 cores, 8 threads. 128 GB virtual disk on ext4, used 5.5 GB. 16 GB of RAM, 13 GB free. No GPU. Network tested at 977 Mbps down, 259 Mbps up. That is a machine that would cost $310/month on AWS as a c7i.2xlarge, plus $40/month for the bandwidth if he moves any real amount of data. Somewhere around $350 to $400 a month for the same setup, sitting in an Amazon data center. He built the same thing at home. The hardware cost is a used server on eBay for about $500, or a mini PC with a modern CPU for around $700. The internet was already paid because he was paying for it anyway. Electricity for a machine running 24 hours a day at that CPU class is roughly $15 to $20 per month depending on where you live. Payback on the hardware: less than 2 months at AWS-equivalent rates. What he runs on it: A KVM virtual machine that hosts a chat interface called MUSK. Probably a locally-hosted language model, probably something in the Qwen or Llama family that fits in 16 GB of RAM at reasonable quantization. Files, backups, personal *** server, and whatever else he does not want sitting in someone else's data center. The reason the pattern matters is that the case for the public cloud was never really "the servers are cheaper." The case was "someone else deals with the hardware, the power, the network, and the failover." That case is still true for a business at scale. It is not really true for a single person running a personal server for himself. I checked my own AWS bill from last year after watching the video. I was paying $126 a month for an EC2 instance that was doing personal projects, backups, and hosting one small side app. I moved it to a $600 mini PC that I now keep in the closet next to the router. Ten months in, the mini PC has paid for itself twice and I am not going back. The video is short. It shows the specs on the screen and shows the network test. It does not sell a course or a Discord. Someone built the setup. Someone else already did the math. I just had to stop paying the cloud rent.

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  SNAFU (@FritzPeasant) reported 44 minutes ago

  @ingelramdecoucy Eh. If the boys electrocuting themselves with the eBay time machine does not make you belly laugh, your funny detector is broken.

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  Vernaculist (@vernaculist) reported 51 minutes ago

  @PaulBambiBurns @eBay_UK @ebay IS the fraud. Do NOT sell on eBay. It's a cesspool run by terrible people.

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 52 minutes ago

  @DavidV_81 @artur @eBay You probably have defaults in place that you set 17 years ago. eBay is settings defaults that result in outrageous shipping prices and the seller has no clue. This is something eBay needs to fix, and can't be blamed on sellers.

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  Vsadix2112 (@Vsadix2112) reported 53 minutes ago

  @HagaEme @cryaboutitboy The point is to not purchase anything that will put money in Sony playstation's pocket. People are purchasing second hand games from ebay and such. And showing no PSN activity by disconnecting from the internet to show the scope of players participating in the outage. More or less.

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  Snake (@ApePlissken01) reported 53 minutes ago

  @CEOAdam Thats Rediculous you *****🤦 trying to shut down the little guy yet again. Only thing you can do is stop scalping from right in front of your theaters. If I buy something and then decide to sell it on ebay its legal. I think you're going to get Sued again.wasting retail cash

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  Workin' on my knight moves (@lain816460) reported 56 minutes ago

  @PeakHobby Sometimes these takedown requests are fake. I got banned from eBay once due to fake takedowns from a competitor. Not sure that's what's happening but don't be surprised if you find that only one or two sellers left standing after everything gets taken down.

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  SPLIT MANTRA (@Duckman_1337) reported 60 minutes ago

  @aeugh989 @DCOfficial @Disney That’s crazy to think about Unfortunately, eBay told me there wasn’’t any wrongdoing (prolly cause he took it down), so i can’t get justice for the other art hes got on there, but it at least motivated me to get print accounts going so i can avoid this