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I really loved my 9-3 turbo...

Who gave it in writing that he can back the deal if need be.

I believe it was this time last year Ryan had a sit down with the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.

Same for McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing.

Well, that, and the CEO of Sears was an Ayn Rand fan who decided departments needed to fight each other over everything.

They have deep synergies in the collectibles market. There's a Venn diagram with eBay on one side and Gamestop on the other, and cultural characters like Logan Paul with his $16m Pokemon card right in the intersection.

This is a big market getting bigger. Americans have more spending money than ever before, especially at the top end, and the collectibles market is expected to grow as much as 7% y/y for a long time. That's like $50b of new spend every year. Massive opportunity.

I think this is smart. Gamestop is a vibes company, everyone knows it, and this is an opportunity to acquire a real business with strong tailwinds. Everyone knows eBay has been poorly run for 20 years. Even in 2010/2011 when I worked there it was running on empty so to speak. Some opportunity to take control of that narrative and grow the business in demographics with deep pockets would be huge.

If they promised to revert eBay's search to how it worked in 1997 I'd throw them a few dollars to bolster their "takeover."

I could see a synergy. Remember when there was a small trend of strip-mall "We'll sell on eBay for you" shops?

That seemed like a great idea for certain types of goods-- the market for plenty of collectibles are thin in any given locality, but it was always clumsy to get to the global marketplace. If you had a normal consumer eBay account with 30 feedback, you might have a hard time getting trust against sellers with 400,000. You had to deal with packing, shipping, nonpayment, complaints.

Handing it all off to a professional with experience and a high volume credible account was worth a consignment commission. But they seemed to dry up after a while, I think when eBay pivoted from "the world's garage sale" to "AliExpress but some products are in domestic warehouses."

If you had a widely deployed retail presence that was already used to dealing with used merchandise (pawnshop-style laws, routing items for cleaning/refubrishment etc), turning the tradein counter into a consignment counter is a potential win. New revenue stream, gets people in the door, and provides an expectation of legitimacy and predictability.

Yeah I don’t blame them. They didn’t create the meme but once it happened, any responsible leader would start doing secondary offerings to raise money. I sure would. If morons want to keep investing in the stock of a company that has no other chance of survival, great. Now they’ve got $9 billion on hand and they’ve had time to find a niche, right-size, and the interest on the cash pile is great too.

> Gamestop can't possibly run eBay better than eBay's current management.

I meaaaaaaan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

"Deferred Prosecution Agreement with District of Massachusetts" still sits in the eBay footer. ;)

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Apologies. Maybe you just came out of a coma that spans half a decade and is unaware of the events surrounding GME stock.

It's a bit of a rabbit hole, but this is a good place to start: https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=3YZ1SpRxOB9sglVG

The minus, double-quotes and parentheses work in many situations, but not in all situations, all of the time. They used to be deterministic. Just this week I found some more searches where wrapping a specific two-word phrase in quotes would actually remove half of the auctions that had that exact phrase in the title. And others where minusing out a term stubbornly refused to remove it.

The worst thing is when you are searching for an item, but most of the listings are those "multiple different specification" listings. e.g. a seller has 8GB, 16GB and 32GB USB sticks. It's almost impossible to compare listings and the price you see is clickbait because once you click through you find the thing you were searching for is several times higher. I wrote a bookmarklet to remove all these, but that's not ideal because it can over-correct.