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Current known technical issues - updated as of 6/3/2025

The following are open technical issues that have been reported and we are still tracking. If you are impacted by one or multiple of these please consider shaking your mobile app or selecting the question mark in the bottom right hand corner of the e...

Adding Recommended Item Specifics Not Working for me

The "Add Item Specifics" is not working for me from my desktop. It either just goes around and around or it pops up and looks strange and will not save. This started yesterday (Wednesday, 9-14-23). @community_team

ebay site bug report

I'm on the US site, looking at a US listing, and when I click the "Have one to sell? [Sell Now]" button, it spawns off to the UK site, even though I am logged into the US site, and the item is on the US site. I don't have a UK account.Rolling over th...

unable to close item. The arrow on my items does not appear, only my first 3 have a up arrow that do

read my problem above about not being to cancel items

Promoted Ad traffic not available anymore.

You use to be able to select ad traffic or normal traffic. Now gone. I need.to have both as thistles me know if paying for the promotion is worth it. It was there yesterday and now gone from drop down on all listings.

Error 500054

I'm unable to accept an offer on an item and get the above error code..... Rung ebay and the said they're having technical issues since Tuesday and trying to rectify it....... Still not working on Friday and looks like I'm going to loose a sale of 2....

Website not functioning

Why does eBay's site sometimes look like this (attached). Nothing works, I can't even login on ebay.co.uk, although I can on ebay.com but even when logged in I can send messages or anything. Nothing works. Even if I relaunch my browser (Firefox). And...

eBay MOTORS search function

Why is the search function acting stupid on eBay motors? I click on Cars & Trucks, then Toyota. Shows zero Toyotas, but I get matchbox cars instead.

How about responding to feedback issues?

Sent eBay a "report a buyer" for a false claim and got the "we'll get back to you". Two weeks now, how long does this take??? Anyone feels like no one is home? eBay is quick respond when there is an issue with funds that they didn't get.Still waiting...

eBay's Search on Mobile App is Broken. Results Don't Match Keywords & Different from Desktop. Why?

As a seller who sources items on the road, its very important to be able to look up items on the spot through eBay Mobile search and rely on those search results to be accurate. However the search on the Mobile app is giving me results that DON'T mat...

My listing is not showing up when sorting by price.

I noticed for about 3 weeks that one of my items was getting almost no views, compared to similar items I was selling. I discovered that, although the item displays at the top when searching for "M367 Mixer" under Best Match sorting, it is not includ...

Search does not function properly unless a hyphen term is used (eg: -string)

A search will display no results or fewer results than it should unless a "minus" search term is used. For example, search for: 1819 large cent. As of right now that search shows 193 results across all categories. If you add any unrelated term with a...

Resolved! Feedback number dropped by over 700

My seller feedback drop from 1265 to 431 one day last week. I thought it was just a glitch but it hasn’t fixed itself yet. Can Anyone help with this?

Need to refund a buyer excess shipping charge but am unable to.

Buyer bought items via Buy-it-Now where first item has $4.60 shippingand each additional item is 10 cents more shipping charge.Since it was Buy-it-Now buyer had to pay in advance.I need to refund him $4.50 for the other two items as only 10 centswere...

Messages, where do they go ?

After replying or sending messages, I can not seem to find where they are saved. Sent 3 different messages and none are showing in the "Sent" folder. Hoping to have all the communications saved for future reference. In general, seems like a horribly ...