eBay bans AI “buy for me” agents & LLM scrapers, updates arbitration & dispute resolution rules in User Agreement update effective Feb. 20, 2026.

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eBay updated its User Agreement effective February 20, 2026, explicitly banning AI-powered "buy for me" agents and LLM scraping bots from accessing the platform without permission. The update also modifies arbitration and dispute resolution terms, expanding the class action waiver to exclude private attorney general actions and third-party damage recovery, updating the physical address for legal correspondence, and clarifying that only new users can opt out of arbitration (existing users' deadline was May 16, 2025). These changes follow Amazon's controversial Buy For Me feature and eBay's December robots.txt updates restricting AI agent interactions.

eBay Explicitly Bans AI “Buy For Me” Agents, Updates Arbitration & Dispute Rules In User Agreement Update