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• Website Down (46%)
• Sign in (36%)
• Errors (18%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Great Dunmow	Website Down	1 hour ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	2 hours ago
Leeds	Errors	8 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	9 hours ago
Souderton	Errors	11 hours ago
Barnsley	Errors	15 hours ago

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  ☆ (@porcelaincups) reported 4 minutes ago

  @KotoriSenseiBA @LostSkeledude idk if I'll get a response but how would this work if I buy a figure off ebay and not directly from a big retailer? I collect hot toys figures and for the ones I dont have/are sold out in the US, I usually buy from hong kong sellers. would this be an issue?..

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  𝕁𝕒𝕪 𝔹𝕠𝕓 & 𝕊𝕠𝕟𝕤 (@JayBobSons) reported 5 minutes ago

  Is that like 8% sales tax? That's the biggest issue here, the 13% eBay cut has pretty much always been there, I feel like its payment for the 👀. So very often eBay is king!

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  Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported 5 minutes ago

  GameStop is about to make the Final Bid for $EBAY On May 3rd, 2026, $GME made a bid for $eBay: "proposed offer is $125.00 per share, comprising 50% cash and 50% GameStop common stock, with full shareholder election rights as to consideration type and pro-rata allocation." Since making that bid, he has gone on a full media pressure campaign, highlighting the misalignment and inadequacies of the management and board of $eBay. The bid was promptly rejected in the face of a stunning 2.5 billion share auth proposal at the July 7th meeting, seemingly to get the $eBay deal done, though the two have not been explicitly linked. Last we heard from @ryancohen was that he is taking the deal directly to shareholders. So what does that mean? —————— WHY EBAY? Let's first look at the target: $eBay. $eBay has around ~90% institutional ownership. Now, in the face of an activist takeover and a hostile bid, what does that mean exactly? First, it means the shareholders of eBay are heavily organized and concentrated. The bidder does not have to convince a million people separately. He just has to convince a few holders of the stock. Second, institutions have a hard mandate. They are fiduciaries of capital, not shareholders convinced for a multitude of reasons. There is only one reason they care about: does it make sense financially? A fiduciary, by law, has to evaluate the offer against standalone value. If the premium is real and the financing is committed, they tender. Not because they want to. Because they have to. For a potential acquisition target, that is not a defense. That is a STRONG vulnerability. And for a hostile bidder, that is everything. —————— MOVE 1: THE REJECTION You can't launch a hostile tender without first making a friendly offer the board refuses. The rejection is the legal prerequisite. It establishes that the board won't negotiate, which justifies going around them. But it matters HOW they reject. If they say "$125 is too low": you're negotiating price before you've started. If they say "not credible": they've rejected the financing, NOT the number. And look at what eBay actually said: "neither credible nor attractive." They left $125 completely unchallenged. Cohen didn't just get rejected. He got rejected perfectly. Price locked. Board on record fighting the wrong battle. Hostile lane open. The dismissible bid was designed, not fumbled. He could have shown up May 3 with committed financing. The board would have had to engage. Price negotiation starts at $125 but eventually he pays more, and it's open to negotiation. Instead, he showed up with a highly confident letter the board COULD dismiss and they dismissed it on financing, not price. Now, when the financing firms up, their only stated objection disappears, and they've already conceded $125 by never contesting it. Meanwhile, he amassed 2,480,467 shares, funded with cash. The 39M-share conversion untouched. Move 1 is complete. —————— COHEN EXPLICITLY TOLD YOU MOVE 2 IS COMING The public press run Ryan Cohen did was very interesting for a multitude of reasons. First, he had to keep his cool under pressure. The viral CNBC clips show just how difficult that is. Second, the interviews themselves are hard to curate to ensure no critical information leaks out. And in that, he explcitly states his next move. Anthony Pompliano Interview: "It's going to come down to the owners of the business and who they believe are the best fiduciaries of their capital." The owners decide. Not the board. That's the tender described in one sentence. "If it was all stock, GameStop shareholders would own 20% of the business. eBay would own 80% of the earnings." He described the all-stock version. Framed it as the bad outcome for his own shareholders. Then went silent on the alternative. Barron's Interview: "The board and the management team cannot run and hide forever." A board hides behind a rejection letter. You can't hide from a tender: it goes directly to your shareholders. "Ultimately this will be resolved by shareholders." He says it twice. Not the board. Shareholders. "I'm not receiving risk-free compensation and selling stock without putting money on the line." That's the pitch to eBay's institutions, pre-loaded into the public record. When the tender arrives: your management takes risk-free comp and sells stock. I take zero salary and get paid only if the combined company hits hurdles. Who should run your asset? "Private equity is really good at raising money and charging management fees. I'm an operator." He's killing the white-knight defense before the board even tries it. When they look for an alternative buyer, PE is the obvious candidate, but Cohen has already framed them as fee-extractors. That defense is pre-neutralized. Every answer points at the same mechanism: a tender offer, direct to shareholders, where the owners decide. SO WHERE IS IT? —————— THE AGM WAS THE LAST PIECE OF INTEL The highly watched $ebay AGM came and went, and many GameStop shareholders were dissappointed. Proposal 4 on the slate specifically was the one to watch: a proposal to lower the special-meeting threshold to 10%. Ultimately, all motions passed in favour of ebay's board and the proposal was rejected. However, let's take a look at the context. This is not the first time this proposal has been brought forward, and every time it has failed. What was the difference this time? This time, the board hired Innisfree, a professional adversarial proxy defense entity. They ran two weeks of direct outreach.  On the other side, @ryancohen amassed close to a 10% position, not going above, but buying direct shares as well.  So what were the results? 2026: 42.8% in favour.  Compare that to 2025: 49% in favour.  So what does that mean in the context of the situation? For a company that is held 90% by institutions, 43% voted IN FAVOUR OF A HOSTILE BIDDER BEING ABLE TO CALL A SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING. Nearly HALF the register defied the board's recommendation DURING AN ACTIVE HOSTILE BID, AFTER the board spent weeks fighting it with a professional proxy solicitor. The institutions who did vote with the board on Proposal 4 didn't do it because they love eBay management. They did it because an uncommitted activist at 9% isn't a strong enough reason to hand him structural tools. Change "uncommitted activist" to "fully funded premium tender" and fiduciary duty makes the decision for them. 42.7% defied the board on a hypothetical. The question is: What happens when the offer is real and sitting in their account? The AGM was never the battlefront for $GME, just the last piece of data he needed before Move 2. Now he has it. —————— THE TENDER A tender doesn't need the board's permission. Doesn't need a merger vote. Doesn't need a special meeting. Doesn't need Proposal 4. It goes directly to the owners. Every shareholder individually decides. The board can recommend against it, but they can't stop it from reaching their shareholders. A fund manager holding eBay at ~$100 receives a funded offer at $125. The math: take certain cash at a 25–46% premium, or hold under a board whose only defense just collapsed. "I believed in eBay management" is a career-ending sentence when the alternative was guaranteed money. The board's one tool is a poison pill. A pill blocks the tender from closing, but not from staying open. Not from the arbs flooding the register. Not from the story running. And a pill turns it into a proxy war. eBay is declassified. Majority-vote. Every director stands annually. "Replace the directors blocking your $125" is a short fight when arbs hold the register and the board's own stated objection no longer exists. Cohen said it: "cannot run and hide forever." A pill buys time but it doesn't win. —————— THE WINDOW Since the last 425, Cohen has gone quiet. The longest gap of the campaign: straight through eBay's AGM and out the other side. Let's look at the calendar a bit and try to surmise what he is planning. July 7: GameStop's annual meeting. Two proposals matter, and they are not the same vote. The authorized-share increase of 2.5 billion is close to a formality. The June 8 proxy supplement spelled it out: simple majority of votes cast, and NYSE deems it routine, so brokers vote uninstructed shares *for* it. That one passes. Cohen knows it passes and that's what the proxy supplement was to clarify. The CEO performance award is the hard one. It was pitched to be decided by unaffiliated holders which is a higher bar than a plain majority.  But here's what the supplement also said: the share authorization is *not* a condition of the pay award. The two are decoupled. And the authorization was never explicitly tied to the eBay deal to begin with. So read it straight. Cohen does not need the July 7 vote to move on eBay. He already has the shares and the structure. What he needs is the other half: committed financing locked *before* he reveals a direct offer to a base that's ~90% institutional. Institutions don't tender on a "highly confident" letter. They tender on certain cash. And then there's Teddy. The site Cohen built for his father has been password-gated since June 1. During this entire saga, this has never ocurred. This Sunday is Father's Day. What I'm watching for: Teddy goes live on Father's Day, Sunday June 21 and the formal offer hits the tape the next morning, Monday June 22. —————— TL;DR: This was always two moves. Move 1: present a dismissible bid. Let the board reject it on financing. Lock the price. Accumulate cheap. Map the register. Move 2: fix the financing. Take the same $125 directly to the owners of a 90% institutional company, where fiduciary duty makes tendering a forced move. Move 1 is done. The board rejected on financing, not price. The toehold is built. The AGM data is in hand. "The board cannot run and hide forever."

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  Eric Ash (@Ash1138) reported 6 minutes ago

  @MarcoFoster_ @KyleKulinski Communists want to tear down society. Under communism, Tesla would be destroyed. No more Amazon, Google, Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Disney, Netflix, Ebay, no more airlines, no trains, no defense companies. No getting astronauts to the ISS as only Space X can do. Communists are evil.

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  Tru Arte (@MrHuntinNoobs) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ebay I have a genuine question. How come when I look for an item sold it is not in chronological order? Like the most recent order should be at the top of the page I'm looking now and the most recent order is 15 to 20 items down but you'll have an item that sold in May above it

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  Sabrius (@Sabrius) reported 9 minutes ago

  I'm an electrical contractor. So maybe I can speak here a little. Very often pricing is a mafia structure between very few vendors. Here in Florida, lighting is ridiculous. For the same build-out, I will get a $23k lighting quote as "alternatives to spec" that are legit the same products, just a different brand, and the spec'ed lights will get quoted at $64k. Now for your breaker. I personally will not buy a breaker from Amazon or eBay. This is personal. There's likely no issue, but I will pay 3x more through my vendors due to relationships with them, trust with them, certain guarantees through them. Yes, this will get passed onto the customer, but generally 3 phase bigger breakers like this control things that cost money each time they're shut down or require scheduling to shut down. Imagine if I send an employee into a... Grocery store..or something overnight since they can't shut down during the day. My Amazon/eBay breaker fails during this overnight shut down. Now I'm just the cheap *** contractor trusting Amazon and eBay to save a couple hundred $, that now costed me thousands and will require another shut down, logistics etc etc. It sucks, sorry you had to deal with this. My hyperbolic story isn't always true, but I've ran into your breaker price range a few times and usually.. it's the electrical wholesale mafia setting the price because they know we'll pay for it.

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  TrantaLocked (@TrantaLocked) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Ask_Spectrum There is a reddit/amazon/ebay routing issue causing media to fail to load in my area, fixed by changing my DNS, and the chat support rep refused to file the feedback for the engineering team to look at it.

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  AC (@_adamccc) reported 13 minutes ago

  @daripitt @CardPurchaser @eBay Brutal. Seems like such an easy fix

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  sumpplcallmemaurice (@abathingBLOKE) reported 16 minutes ago

  @10thstreetblack @CinsereBeats Is target the only place where you can get the vinyl? I'm asking bc, I didn't get my gnx vinyl from target. So if the reasonable doubt vinyl is EXCLUSIVELY avaliable at target that's the problem. If there's other ways to get, pls send me a link bc I was gone wait to ebay it

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  FPL Waqa Waqa 🐶 (@FplWaqaWaqa) reported 16 minutes ago

  @caseydoesthingx @CardPurchaser @PSAcard The Value Plus grading level didn’t shut down when buying a raw card through eBay. Most likely because of contractual agreements.

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  Bier Collectibles TCG (@bierc_tcg) reported 19 minutes ago

  It seems my Ebay shops arent linked properly on my linktree. I will fix this today, im just finishing an overnight shift. Apologies for this error

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  Robbie (@RobbieV1988104) reported 22 minutes ago

  @thwacknicklaus This club thwarted my free golf in college. Had a course where you paid $1 and wrote your name down if you’re a member. I’d pay the buck and write down my friend’s name who had a membership. Bought this driver off eBay and roped one down the first fairway - too much attention.

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  botchedalism (@botchedalism) reported 22 minutes ago

  Someone could grab a chunk, break it down, and sell pieces on eBay. There is absolutely a market.

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  Kiloton Winier (@binhacked1) reported 24 minutes ago

  @petriethedog I had hundreds. Over the years it got whittled down to 4 footlockers. Lost that about 15 years ago. Was sad but also liberating. I had been reading and collecting books since I was a boy. I got screwed selling a lot of it on ebay before an amtrack move from Boston to Orange County California in 2013.

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  BraveHeart (@Braveheartxx75) reported 25 minutes ago

  @itswooch Ebay will go down to 30 lol

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  Duane the Bathtub (@BOHICAGOOGLEIT) reported 26 minutes ago

  @iqrafatma1278 Funny, If They Are 2026 Quarters... The Roll is Worth $25.00. If, The Roll is The Error Roll, it's worth $100.00 or More on eBay. Check it Out.

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  shawn (@Shawncnda) reported 27 minutes ago

  @WaterPlantGuy @CardPurchaser Give it another week. eBay tracking has went back to being jacked up this week. I’ve got issues with cards coming in and going out. Ask for a few more days. Sadly I’ve had cards take weeks to get to me after being marked as delivered

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  Grace P. (@gracepap) reported 31 minutes ago

  @eBay please tell your IT people to fix. When item is sold elsewhere and I end listing on eBay do NOT put in the inactive file! Items that are sold get relisted!!!

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  Zac Alan Cichy (@zcichy) reported 33 minutes ago

  @XRPee1983 @Cliffracer56k I just don’t know when I’m gonna see another functioning Jag CD for less. The cheapest I’ve seen was a broken one on Ebay about 6 months ago for $650, by itself. It’s my grail console.

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  Jeff (@thelostjeff) reported 34 minutes ago

  @RNGingy Ebay, tcgplayer online. If you sell individually you will get more, but its more trouble.

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  LEWIS MELCHER (@cardshopmd) reported 35 minutes ago

  I swear I have had it with eBay, I have a ton of items to list and the bulk uploader is not working. I I do not have the time to list 800+ Soccer items 1x1 @eBay get your **** together

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  Tim Miller (@WebInspectInc) reported 36 minutes ago

  Built sellyourjunk because I kept losing money trashing stuff I wasn't using. Spent weeks manually listing everywhere: eBay, Facebook, local apps. Thought 'this is broken, there's gotta be a better way'. So I built one. Work in progress, but getting better every day 💪

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  UrbanCowboy (@UrbanCowboyII) reported 44 minutes ago

  @TurbosLady9493 Lisa I love you so I want to take the time to follow up here. I think what concerns me is players have used scrips in gear, and in hats before this, a player has used it for a passed wash friend. The rules didn’t apply there. Now this is an issue, that’s what my point is. Is it really optional? I don’t see it when social pressure is pushed so hard to get these guys to conform. See giants pitcher who chose not to wear it on eBay he says. Headlines were made of rays players, dodgers, giants etc on not wearing. I’m not asking anyone to change their views, I think I’m just asking for mutual respect. Players shouldn’t feel socially obligated to deny the lord for anyone or anything, and title VII tells us that shouldn’t be a thing.

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  cats collectibles tcg (@Catscollecttcg) reported 44 minutes ago

  For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to create a TCG When I was a kid, we used to take the Pokemon figures you could get from ebay like 150 fake pokemon 1” toys for $25 I used to make them have levels and states and make gyms and an elite four In my 20s I made a game very similar to how one piece turned out but I didn’t know much about game balance and I even got the first full set printed and we did a little “pre release” event. But printing is expensive and artwork etc; so I gave up The last 2 years I’ve been working on a TCG working on mechanics and how to do it, proof of this is @AQuarterRican actually printed over 600 cards, but very much still in the testing phase and it’s hard to find the time. But @SteeloAndKri of all people made me think of an idea I just never thought of. A Cats TCG? What if I took my original idea that I’ve been working on but build lore and cards around our brand? Now this isn’t “THE NEXT MAGIC KILLER” this is just a fun idea, and not TOO expensive, I can have packs made from Alibaba, korrie and I can pack them and sell them for like $1.99 a pack. I’m going to put my thoughts down below!

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  Laniisha (@laniisha1) reported 45 minutes ago

  My brother got me a canon slr from eBay but it’s messed up and it costs $140 to fix it. Photography really is the rich man’s hobby because who tf..?

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  Sam Boboev (@samboboev) reported 52 minutes ago

  BREAKING: @PayPal winds down venture arm as fintech giant restructures under new CEO PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter. The fund’s headcount has shrunk from more than 10 in late 2025 to now only two, according to an archived version of the website for PayPal Ventures. Meanwhile, the page that listed the venture unit’s employees is no longer visible. PayPal is also exploring the sale of some of its positions on the secondary market and has hired the investment bank Jefferies to help with potential transactions, said one source familiar with the matter, who declined to be named while talking about private business dealings. PayPal established its venture arm in 2016, one year after eBay spun off the fintech into an independent company. Since then, PayPal Ventures, which invests off the fintech’s balance sheet, has backed more than 80 companies across three funds that total more than $850 million. Some of its more prominent bets include the fintech Plaid, the crypto custodian Anchorage Digital, and its exits include Bill com’s acquisition of the startup Divvy in 2021. The performance of the venture fund’s portfolio contributed 10 cents to PayPal’s $1.53 earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2025, as opposed to subtracting four cents in 2024, according to a February earnings release. News by Fortune

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  Julien Azul (@SuenosAzules32) reported 52 minutes ago

  @ckcardz @MKG_Sports @eBay Hard to disagree here honestly. I think it comes down to “lack of proper training”. I have very similar issues when calling customer service for the company I work for.

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  coooookie cutttter (@NunnnnnaB) reported 54 minutes ago

  @dear_angel_lacy @imtrashdva @soitgoeslexi I think it’s really ******* annoying to triple down on something like this when someone who acc spent their money on the cd has a review on it. This person got in the queue and bought something. They’re allowed to return it/be dissapointed in it and not sell it on eBay

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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 55 minutes ago

  A lot of new people here, this one’s for you. 🚨How to stop losing money to eBay return scammers. They buy your clean, working item… then ship back a broken piece of junk & demand a full refund. I recently learned this $7.49 trick & it’s an absolute game changer: Grab a cheap UV security pen (the exact one I use from amazon is in the photo). Before you ship, write a unique personal code or mark in a hidden spot on the item. It’s completely invisible to the naked eye, but lights up under any blacklight. When the return comes back, just shine the light. No matching mark? That’s not your original item. Upload the before/after UV photos in your eBay case and watch your win rate skyrocket. 🚀 Pro tip: Make the code truly unique, your own handwriting style, a random symbol only you make. Something scammers can’t duplicate even if they know the method. Resellers: add this to your process TODAY. It will save you hundreds (or thousands) in the long run. Who’s trying this? Let me know in the comments if you’re adding UV marking to your process. Also, would love to hear your best return scam stories below! Happy selling! Let's grow!

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  Dariel Santana (@daripitt) reported 58 minutes ago

  @_adamccc @CardPurchaser @eBay Just got 3 cards from authentication today and same issue!!