Some eBay product searches failed... Terms restrict unauthorized automation
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Meta’s AI agent Muse failed to retrieve some eBay product listings, with The Verge reporting on April 11 that a user’s daily watch-list request returned no product links or details over the weekend before publication, and that some other search queries also failed during reproduction tests. eBay said it selectively manages external services’ access to its marketplace, citing terms that restrict unauthorized data collection and use of its data for AI. The episode matters because AI agents depend on structured access to marketplace listings, and eBay’s stance signals that agent-driven traffic may face the same scraping and API limits as other third parties. What to watch next is whether Meta and eBay formalize a data-access arrangement, and whether similar retrieval failures spread to other agent use cases.
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