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  Fitzzzy 🏴‍☠️ (@ShaunFitzzzy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Psycho0111 It all comes down to if there is any material info out there. With everything around eBay it might be hard to get around the safe harbor laws Also, I’m not sure if the pre earnings release counts, we get the full thing next week

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  Zaza (@titchyhalo) reported 5 minutes ago

  Canadian sf problems cant buy the baby love perfume unless I pay over $150CAD on ebay (mad I love baby powdered smells) and feeling crazy watching for the us only heachan pc of my dreams (Walmart exclusive)

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  Victory Gundam V1 (@Gundam_mf) reported 6 minutes ago

  @SylusMk2 I found the metal fix on eBay for like 1k Gl, the hummingbird figure is like a mythological creature at this point

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  slicko (@haribo4me) reported 9 minutes ago

  @GoatBeardzDD @MaiDuat31103 When company A acquires company B, doesn’t the stock price of A typically go down while B goes up? So in this case shouldn’t we expect GME to dip if they are successful at acquiring eBay?

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  alex bud (@alex_budimir) reported 13 minutes ago

  Anyone else notice how much better listing has gotten? I hadn’t listed cards on eBay in a while because of the fees and how long it took. Used to be 3–5 minutes per card. Listed a few Laz and Rainiel cards today and the AI had me down to about a minute each. @CardPurchaser

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  Naomi June (@njkjh00) reported 17 minutes ago

  @united_imadoki Buying a broken laser pointer for 15 really set the bar for everything sold on eBay ever since

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  Ratchlock in the Rain ⛈️🥀 (@DamnitKnightly) reported 17 minutes ago

  @boomboomfaia Yeah we had to turn off shipping TO the EU because of LUCID and the new PPWR rulings (US based issue for Etsy/Ebay) But I do believe acggoods does handle most of that since they are the ones producing and shipping the items. Only thing is the tariffs but that is customer based

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  Alex Thompson (@sierrastrades) reported 18 minutes ago

  TL;DR Sales down, profits up, cash lower because they turned the eBay options into real shares. • Sales: $780–800M vs $972M last year. Drop is mostly Switch 2 anniversary, store closures, and selling France. • Operating income: $150–170M vs $66M. Core operations got a lot more profitable. • Net income: $290–310M vs $169M. Includes ~$238M eBay gain, minus ~$75M digital-asset loss. • Cash: $5.05–5.07B vs $8.69B last year. Cash fell because they converted the eBay derivatives into 43.4 million eBay shares, now worth about $4.95B. • Full results drop September 8.

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  Hysterian (@HysterianYT) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SonicBlueRanger The prices for them on eBay aren’t terrible in all fairness, given that not all that many copies were published. It just depends if you’re willing to spend anywhere from £30 to nearly £50 a piece for them.

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  NVSportsCards (@NVSportsCards) reported 19 minutes ago

  @CardsMax If Comc didn’t take 6 months to process or ship, they could have caused real problems for ebay.

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  Sj (@Pkrguy23) reported 19 minutes ago

  @clarkknowscards DM me and I will tell you how I got out of eBay jail from their error which plagued me for almost 6 months. Should work the same for you.

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  k- 🏴‍☠️ (@_goinKuu) reported 20 minutes ago

  @eBay i’ve already done this, and ran into “ Technical difficulties “ when using the call me feature. I need an actual agent asap, because this was made in error. I have nothing that violates any policy as i’ve read everything on the Policy page.

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  kitchen witchen 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kitchen_witchen) reported 22 minutes ago

  @eBay This *** AI listing system is slow as molasses in Antarctica. I could do this in half the time and not have to fix literally every step. **** offffff

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  WesleyTech (@WesleyTech) reported 23 minutes ago

  eBay is the king of terrible customer experiences. 1 example of many: They make you solve a captcha in order to LOG OUT of your account on the web app 🤬

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 25 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.