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eBay moves to ban unsupervised agent purchases

development2026-01-25

Claim

eBay is attempting to ban AI agents from making purchases without direct human supervision.

Reporting date: 2026-01-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 25, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Two weeks after a protocol is built for agents to transact, a marketplace tries to shut them out.

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Welcome to January 25, 2026

Actor

eBay

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Supersedes

Google ships a commerce protocol for agents

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eBay moves to ban unsupervised agent purchases
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-25
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-25-ebay-bans-agent-purchases
Claim: eBay is attempting to ban AI agents from making purchases without direct human supervision.
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- Welcome to January 25, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-25-2026
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