eBay status: access issues and outage reports

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Most Reported Problems

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

• Website Down (62%)
• 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
Manchester	Website Down	3 hours ago
Friedrichsdorf	Sign in	9 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	9 hours ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Manchester	Website Down	1 day ago
Ocala	Errors	2 days ago

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eBay Issues Reports

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  Collectibles.com (@Collectibles) reported 1 minute ago

  This is a collector fumbled a $1.8 million payday 🫠 In 2013-14, Panini’s National Treasures set produced a single 1-of-1 Giannis Antetokounmpo rookie card, with his autograph and a swatch of an NBA “Logoman” patch cut from a jersey he actually wore as a rookie. At the time, Giannis was an unknown 19-year-old from Greece averaging under 7 points a game. A collector (Amerigo Vespuccc) on the Blowout Cards forum listed the card on eBay in 2014, and it sold for $7,000. But the buyer noticed a small indentation and a yellow stain on the card and returned it for a full refund rather than keep it. Panini later replaced the card to compensate for the damage, which is why it ended up with a fresh autograph. In 2017, the card sold again, this time to a 12-year-old collector named Andrew Park, who paid $40,000 for it. Giannis still hadn’t broken out as a superstar yet, so this was a serious bet from a kid barely into middle school. Over the next three years, Giannis turned into a two-time MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, and the card’s value exploded along with his career. In September 2020, Goldin Auctions sold it for $1.812 million, setting a new record for the most expensive modern-day basketball card, edging out a LeBron James rookie card that had set the previous record just six weeks before. The buyer was Alt, the same collectibles platform that had bought that record-setting LeBron card. Collect basketball cards? Track and value them on @Collectibles 🏆

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  Noah Fence ✡️🇮🇱📟🦁 מיכה Phil the Shochet (@ZealouslyQuoted) reported 1 minute ago

  @LDBirdywatcher Facts. Problem is a lot of the ebay cost is shipping and the shipping would make it not worthwhile. Though I find plenty of cheap books locally

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  Kinbozan’s Right Airpod (@wickiebee69) reported 3 minutes ago

  Just caught a whiff of cigarette from this box I got from eBay is this furby I got just Joe camel cool as **** or am I in trouble guys

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  Kai (@kai_xbt) reported 5 minutes ago

  Gary Vee explains why 3 to 4 NFT projects will end up being the Jackson Pollocks of the 2021 era "When internet stocks came out in 2000, everything was worth a trillion dollars even if the company did zero revenue. Then April 2000 hit and all of it went to zero, companies going from $500 a share to three cents. But the handful that were legit, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, got dragged down to $3 and then went on to become some of the biggest companies in the world." "NFTs are the exact same thing. Everyone got confused and thought all of them were worth a million dollars, when most are worth nothing, just like trading cards. But there will be 3 to 4 to 7 projects from that 2021 era that in 20 years are the Jackson Pollocks and the Andy Warhols. The only question is whether you're good enough to pick the winners."

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  RAJ (@israjsonu) reported 5 minutes ago

  @svpino The part that doesn't transfer to "just ask AI" is accountability. At eBay scale the model gives me a plausible fix in seconds — the job is knowing which of the three plausible fixes survives ****, and being the one on the hook when it doesn't. Clients pay for the second thing, and they still will.

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  Botpixx (@botpixx) reported 7 minutes ago

  @PaxCybertron I wasn't too happy, either. After putting this up, I asked ChatGPT what the DHL charge usually is for a voyager and deluxe combined, and it said anywhere from $25 - $40. So, not terrible on the low end, and considerably less than what we'd pay on eBay on the high end

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  Keith Bacon | Sports Cards (@Keithbacon) reported 8 minutes ago

  @theonlydsmith @GotdemCards I currently post almost everything on eBay, but if you see something and your rather buy in CollX, I can move from one to the other. I’ve had trouble keeping track when listed on both and accidentally sold the same card twice.

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  Tim (@EPluribusX) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS I am surprised this issue has not gotten more media attention. I called my retirement plan manager and told her to divest my accounts of any fund that has money in EBAY. The EBAY X account alone is about 90% complaints for similar issues.

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  0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reported 14 minutes ago

  A $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.

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  We are all Charlie now (@Girls_n_Guns) reported 14 minutes ago

  @BabyD1111229 Stupidest part was I could buy Trane boards on eBay for under $200. Can’t remember if they were new or used. But nothing happened to that board that I couldn’t diagnose and fix myself.

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  OzKo (@OzKo_txt) reported 16 minutes ago

  @narliebirds my headcannon is that he got a super cheap broken one off ebay and fixed it himself

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  Saeed Anwar (@saen_dev) reported 16 minutes ago

  @FadiEcomAI The eBay search grid problem is even worse because every listing looks identical and the buyer decision comes down to who shows up first, not who has the best product. Are you seeing any sellers successfully differentiating through image quality or listing structure?

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  patrick (@PatrickHarmonn) reported 17 minutes ago

  When you send a card to PSA for grading, either from home or through eBay etc. do they do any time of maintenance to the card? Wipe it down etc? Always been curious.

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  Will James (@willjamesusa) reported 20 minutes ago

  @lior_pozin Why didn't eBay shut down 100 accounts? There's something impossibly odd they would not find a relationship among them.

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  let me check my palm pilot (@K_Why_C) reported 21 minutes ago

  @GOODBROTHERLYZM @Slangdini These tweets made me search it up. All you can find are snips of the article. There are issues on eBay. they even cut the link to the interview. it’s “unable to load”

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  J.Miguel Navarrete 🇲🇽🇺🇸 (@JmiguelNavarre3) reported 24 minutes ago

  @eBay I believe Ebay is in some trouble... the system keeps doing some strange stuff to my account,so for the time been,I'm going to stop buying anything until it goes back to normalcy,as it was before !

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  auburn35 (@35auburn) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Ay2G @bourassa_kyle @eBay I posted a public thread that highlights some of the issues and things to check. If you compare against a known good example, you'll see several differences.

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  Gabriel (@Gabriel050111) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MLSophist @TheAhmadOsman That's a ****** looking GPU rack. I guess these people don't know you can find racks and server cases for a few bucks on ebay.

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  The New Mocha Joe (@TheNewMochaJoe) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ThePPseedsShow Who cares. If he gets EBAY, we go down!

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  Dr. Genius, Esq. (@KCitons) reported 30 minutes ago

  @miles_commodore Leased cars today are not what they used to be. I leased a 2015 Ford Fusion for 2 years. $99 down, $99 a month. I've also owned a timeshare since 2008. Bought for $1 on ebay. Used every day of it since, except during the pandemic. House has been paid off for 10 years.

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  ICFacades9 (@ICfacades9) reported 31 minutes ago

  @mattvanswol We lost America in 1901 is why. That is when Rothschilds and Rockefellers cooked up the federal reserve. Do yourself a favor and read 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' get it off ebay. Once you figure that out, you start to realize There has been a massive plan to keep you down.

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  Diamond Dark Dino (@Diamonddarkdino) reported 36 minutes ago

  @KevinfromKY17 🤙🏽 I would love to bypass eBay in a safe manner … and even down the road would like to make sales this way… What do u guys do as far as seeling directly where both seller and buyer are somewhat safe? And I would sale these to u for 3$

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  Bob Nolan (@buddhalite) reported 36 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS @_bismack_ I don't agree people will stop bidding, simply bc the things still slow at auction are still predominantly sold at/on eBay. It'll be a shift, but as a seller (I don't do auctions) there's nothing but upside and for buyers the experience wi be 10x better.

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  Joe A (@aceofcards89) reported 38 minutes ago

  I was just thinking about this today. If you take a 5-10 year horizon, where would you want to put your money? - Vintage? I think it's risky. I'll go so far as to say even big names like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays will start to fade. - Definitely not ultra-modern. Don't chase the new "color blast" or whatever every year. Wouldn't touch Topps Dynasty, which seems to be popular. - GOAT market is at all time highs and feels frothy to me. ------------- For me the play is simple, buy cool cards! People want unique cards (no base, no random parallels, but also no "case hits"). I'm talking image variations, autos (on-card), the kind of cards where you pull up eBay and you can't find any available. -------------- Cash might be the play. Take a little risk off the table and be ready to come back when (IF) things calm down. Sealed wax is a play if you can keep it sealed and know how to sell it (not for me). I do think the 2005-2015ish era is a little undervalued. A lot of big cards in that era that are entering HOF eligibility.

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  Alex Strand (@1ev_guy) reported 39 minutes ago

  @eBay please be very cautious selling on eBay! They do not care about sellers! They hold money for weeks (presumably to make interest) under the guise of a zip code issue at delivery. I have confirmation thru their msg system that buyer has his item. Still will not release funds.

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  Simplus (@simplusng) reported 50 minutes ago

  @greyfinance Rubbish! You have said this sorry 1000 times but at the end of the day you refused solving my problem. I tried the card on ebay, Amazon, apple, Google, etc, but it failed on all these sites. I even did a video and sent to you but u still did nothing

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  kungfuflu (@forgottenwildc) reported 50 minutes ago

  The Christmas That Changed the Way We Shop Christmas 2026 may become the dividing line between the old internet and the new one. Before this Christmas, we searched for products ourselves. We opened a dozen browser tabs, compared prices, read reviews, searched for coupons and tried to decide whether the five-star toaster was wonderful or merely supported by a very energetic marketing department. After this Christmas, more of that work may be handed to AI. The shopping agent will not completely take over Christmas. It probably will not independently select every present, drain your checking account and explain afterward that everyone in the family needed matching electric bicycles. But millions of people are likely to let an AI agent perform at least part of their holiday shopping. That could include finding products, comparing prices, watching for discounts, assembling carts and, in some cases, completing purchases. The Pieces Are Already in Place This is no longer just a collection of impressive demonstrations. Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping can compare products, track prices, reorder household items and perform scheduled shopping tasks. A customer can establish conditions such as buying an item when its price falls below a certain amount. Amazon’s “Buy for Me” feature goes even further. When Amazon does not sell an item, its agent can purchase it from a participating brand’s outside website on the customer’s behalf. The customer still reviews the purchase, but the agent performs the work of completing the transaction. Google is building similar capabilities into Search and Gemini. Its Universal Commerce Protocol is designed to give AI agents a common way to communicate with retailers, payment companies and shopping platforms. The list of companies supporting Google’s effort is not small. It includes Shopify, Etsy, Walmart, Target, Wayfair, Best Buy, Home Depot, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe. When that many enormous companies begin building the same plumbing, it is usually a sign that someone expects water to start flowing through it. Visa Is Preparing for Millions of AI Purchases The clearest prediction comes from Visa. Visa reported that its partners had already completed hundreds of controlled, real-world transactions initiated by AI agents. The company predicts that millions of consumers will use AI agents to complete purchases during the 2026 holiday season. That does not mean millions of people will turn over their credit cards and tell a robot to “handle Christmas.” The more likely experience will be supervised automation. The agent searches, compares, monitors and prepares the purchase. The person gives final approval before the money moves. That may sound like a small difference from ordinary online shopping, but it changes where the real work occurs. Instead of searching Amazon for “best cordless drill under $100,” opening several listings and reading conflicting reviews, a shopper could say: Find a reliable cordless drill under $100 for someone who does occasional home repairs. Avoid professional models, check the recent reviews and tell me if the current price is actually a sale. The agent could then narrow hundreds of products to three serious choices. It might monitor the preferred model and buy it—or ask permission to buy it—when the price drops. The customer is no longer searching the store. The agent is searching the market. ChatGPT Is Taking a Slightly Different Road ChatGPT shopping is already live in the United States. It can search for products visually, compare choices and tailor its recommendations to a shopper’s stated preferences. OpenAI also says Shopify and Etsy catalogs are already integrated into its shopping system. Individual Shopify merchants do not need to construct a separate OpenAI connection merely to have their products considered for discovery. However, OpenAI recently moved away from making its original Instant Checkout system the center of the experience. Most shoppers will be directed into the merchant’s own checkout system, although companies such as Walmart can build deeper shopping experiences inside ChatGPT. That change is revealing. Finding the right product with AI is becoming practical very quickly. Completing purchases across thousands of unrelated websites is harder. Every merchant has different shipping choices, return policies, inventory systems, taxes, discount codes and payment requirements. AI can understand a request in plain English, but it still has to communicate with online stores built over roughly three decades. The intelligence is largely ready. The plumbing is still being installed. What Christmas 2026 Will Probably Look Like The most likely outcome is a mixed shopping season. AI should be very good at: Finding products that match detailed requirements Comparing specifications and recent prices Summarizing customer reviews Suggesting gifts based on someone’s interests Watching for price reductions Notifying shoppers when an item returns to stock Building shopping lists and carts Reordering familiar products Completing purchases through supported retailers It will probably remain less dependable when dealing with obscure websites, complicated product variations, unusual shipping requirements and merchants that have not connected their systems to the new agentic-commerce standards. In other words, the first mass-market shopping agents will resemble very capable assistants—not independent financial decision-makers. The human will still hold the leash. Why This Matters to Small Sellers For small online merchants, this could change product discovery almost as much as Google changed it during the early internet era. Traditional search engines depend heavily on keywords. Shopping agents attempt to understand the shopper’s actual intention. A person may not search for an exact product title. They might ask: Find an unusual railroad gift under $30 for a collector who already owns most of the common books. Or: Find a funny novelty license plate for a garage wall. I want something unusual, not a mass-produced motivational sign. An AI agent could search descriptions, images, prices, shipping information and customer requirements simultaneously. That gives small merchants an opportunity. A unique item from an independent seller can compete with a mass-produced item from a large retailer—provided the agent can understand what the item is. Accurate titles, clear descriptions, good photographs, correct dimensions and current inventory will become increasingly important. Product listings will have two audiences: the human buyer and the AI representing that buyer. Poorly written listings may become almost invisible, even if the item itself is excellent. AI cannot recommend what it cannot confidently identify. For Shopify merchants, the change may arrive relatively quickly because Shopify’s catalog is already connected to ChatGPT’s product-discovery system. That does not guarantee that every product will appear, but it gives millions of small businesses an entrance into this new market without requiring them to build their own AI infrastructure. eBay sellers should watch this closely as well. Used, vintage and one-of-a-kind merchandise is more difficult for agents to categorize than standardized new products. However, those are precisely the purchases where a capable agent could be most valuable. Finding a common toaster is easy. Finding a particular railroad timetable, vintage catalog or discontinued piece of clothing in the correct size is where intelligent searching could shine. The First Agentic Christmas Shopping agents will not dominate Christmas 2026. Most purchases will still be made through conventional websites and apps. But this could be the first Christmas when agent-assisted purchasing becomes visible to ordinary consumers. People will ask AI what to buy. They will allow it to search across stores. They will rely on it to judge reviews and compare prices. Some will permit it to complete transactions within carefully established limits. If those experiences work reasonably well, consumer habits could change quickly. Once someone discovers that an AI can search 40 retailers, compare the serious choices and monitor prices while they do something else, returning to ten browser tabs may feel surprisingly primitive. The agents will make mistakes. Prices will occasionally be outdated. Product details will be misunderstood. Deliveries and returns will expose weaknesses that controlled demonstrations did not reveal. Those problems will slow adoption, but they probably will not stop it. The underlying shift is already underway. Amazon has working purchasing agents. Google is building common retail standards. OpenAI is connecting merchant catalogs to ChatGPT. Payment networks are creating secure credentials that allow authorized agents to spend money without receiving unlimited access to a customer’s account. Christmas 2026 will not be the Christmas when AI completely takes over shopping. It may be more important than that. It could be the Christmas when people decide they no longer want to shop alone. Sources OpenAI: Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT OpenAI: Product Discovery for Merchants Amazon: How “Buy for Me” Works Google: New Tools for the Agentic Shopping Era Visa: Agent-Initiated Transactions and Its 2026 Holiday Prediction

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  Zach Alt (@ZachAltmyer) reported 51 minutes ago

  Reselling discontinued products has been my bread and butter for years. Here's how it works: When a product gets discontinued, you become one of the last places someone can get it. Maybe it's not sold near them anymore. Maybe they don't have time to look for it. They'd rather click a few buttons and have it show up at their door That's where you come in. Finding these products is easier than you'd think. Head to your local pharmacy, grocery, or hardware store and look for: - discontinued price tags - clearance sections - dust on the products Stores with slow inventory turnover will have stuff sitting for months, sometimes years. If you don't have those kinds of stores near you, check discount stores, closeout chains, and bargain outlets. These buy closeout inventory in bulk so when a brand discontinues a product, this is often where it ends up, before most people realize it's gone To build a list of what to hunt for, search "discontinued" plus any category on eBay. For example, "discontinued detergent" pulls up every detergent that's selling. Do this across all categories and you'll never run out of leads. Before you buy a bunch of units, confirm the discontinuation. Go straight to the brand's website, since some list discontinued items or note it right on the product page. Another tip is to read the reviews. When something gets discontinued and hard to find, customers will be complaining about it. One last thing to keep in mind: discontinued doesn't always mean gone forever. Sometimes it's temporary and sometimes demand brings it back Happy hunting!

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  Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) reported 54 minutes ago

  EBay: hey, rather than that password and 2FA code stuff, let's set up a passkey! Me: sounds good. EBay: OK! Done! *two days later* EBay: let's sign in with your passkey! Me: *stares at camera* Ebay: great! And now we'll just send a text to verify it's you! Me: ...

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 59 minutes ago

  In 2003 a thirty-two-year-old Elon Musk gave the Stanford talk founders still pass around twenty years later. He was invited to speak at Stanford's Graduate School of Business by a class of MBA students who wanted to hear from someone actually building companies instead of teaching cases about them. He walked in, sat down, and talked for forty-five minutes without a single slide. By that point he had already sold Zip2 to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars and had cleared roughly one hundred and eighty million from the PayPal sale to eBay the year before. He had used most of that money to start SpaceX in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2003, SpaceX had zero launches, roughly thirty employees, and a runway that was going to run out inside two years. He talked about how to start a company when nobody believes in the market. How to cut costs when the cash pile is shrinking every week. How to think from first principles instead of from analogy. How to stay alive long enough for luck to matter. The most striking part of the tape is not the advice. It is the tone. He is calm. He is quiet. He is thirty-two years old and running a company that is trying to build rockets, and he speaks about it the way a project manager describes a Kanban board. Twenty years later that same man owns SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and X. His net worth crossed four hundred billion dollars at the end of 2024. The rocket company he was running on empty in 2003 now launches more mass into orbit than the rest of the world combined. The talk is on YouTube. It has been posted, taken down, reposted, and re-uploaded dozens of times. It never breaks a hundred thousand views on any single upload because it does not have a thumbnail hook or a title that promises secrets. It is just forty-five minutes of a man who had not yet become anything explaining, in flat prose, how to survive when nobody has backed you yet. I watched it for the first time in 2019 during a stretch of my own company where I was three months from running out of cash. Nothing in the talk was tactical enough to save me. What it did do was give me permission to keep going for another quarter, which turned out to be all I needed. The Musk who gave that talk did not know what he would become. Neither did the students in the room. That is the actual value of the tape. You watch him before he was Elon Musk.