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  Martin Patz (@martin_patz) reported 10 seconds ago

  @eBay is so broken as a marketplace when something is off. Many vendors list their items incorrectly (intentionally or accidentally). The differences are obvious, yet their customer support agents simply label everything as OK. Why bother reporting.

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  𝔻𝔸ℝℝ𝔼𝕃𝕃 (@dzdarrell) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Polymarket I remember when Meg Whitman ran eBay and it was really trash. They definitely benefited from first mover advantage back then and not much more They'd shut down every Thursday night for maintenance, for hours

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  Robert Landa (@robertico1980) reported 2 minutes ago

  @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @ryancohen If the Board doesn't care about Ebay that's not a problem by Ryan Cohen

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  Cain (@seo762110) reported 5 minutes ago

  @magsonthemoon They are BCG agents. These douchebags were hired to burn down EBay from the inside out. The reason they cannot sell for $125 is.. if they accept the $125, all the EBay shorts must close for $125. They want to close for much lower and if possible, bankrupt EBay.

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  Mark M (@iwasmmueller88) reported 7 minutes ago

  @MTG_HODL @CardPurchaser You issue a refund, and file a damaged in transit claim with eBay’s ESE insurance. Then you move on. You’ll get paid out in like 3 days max to your PayPal and then you block the buyer.

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  Jolly Jack-o **** (VeeScoot) (@Veescoot) reported 7 minutes ago

  Alright. i got some boxes from ebay at these prices. i had to remind myself. the print run is est to be WAY bigger. than 2025. so i can calm down i ended up buying 1 hobby to keep sealed, 7 mega boxes and 12 blaster boxes, May buy more if prices lower in due time

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  Ben Rogers ☀️ (@Multisiteltd) reported 7 minutes ago

  Shorts are pushing the $GME price down - if GME buys EBay the share count will be higher …

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 8 minutes ago

  Cohen’s conviction on this point is deeply personal. In a recent interview, he highlighted this exact vulnerability, detailing his own experience as an everyday eBay consumer. He revealed that he made multiple purchases on the platform—specifically digital items for his son—that turned out to be fraudulently advertised, forcing him to undergo the friction of initiating chargebacks. Expressing outright disbelief, he openly questioned how a major marketplace could allow such basic operational failures to persist. For a CEO obsessed with customer delight, that experience highlights a critical, systemic failure in digital trust. It also serves as the perfect pivot to the darker side of the thesis: if simple consumer fraud is this prevalent and unmanaged, what else is hiding in the system? The Forensic Risk Layer: The "Ghost Architecture" Hypothesis The public-facing thesis is purely operational: modernize eBay, optimize logistics, and restore trust. But given Cohen's own encounters with platform fraud, a serious acquisition of eBay necessitates a deep forensic audit. This introduces the risk layer. The following is a hypothesis, not an allegation: eBay’s protracted stagnation may have allowed hidden inefficiencies, synthetic activity, ghost accounts, or non-economic transaction patterns to calcify within the marketplace. These anomalies are rarely visible through headline revenue, Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV), or active-user metrics. Uncovering them requires bottom-up telemetry analysis. A marketplace can appear healthy on the surface while actively harboring volume that is low-quality, non-repeatable, artificially inflated, or entirely disconnected from physical commerce. If Cohen’s team is executing due diligence, they are likely scrutinizing the relationship between reported transactions and physical reality: inventory movement, shipping integrity, buyer-seller linkage, tracking reuse, account clustering, and authentication failure rates. The foundational question is simple: How much of eBay’s marketplace activity is real, durable, physical commerce? The NGO Laundering & "Fees as a Service" Hypothesis One forensic risk scenario involves the exploitation of marketplace infrastructure for non-traditional capital flows. Under this theory, certain accounts might utilize eBay-style transactions not to trade goods, but to generate legitimate-looking payment records and move capital. This could hypothetically involve shell entities, offshore actors, or coordinated account networks. The entity's label is irrelevant; the core issue is whether the transaction possesses actual economic substance. The model is straightforward: 1. A controlled buyer account purchases a high-value, vaguely described item from a controlled seller account. 2. Little to no meaningful physical inventory changes hands (shipping may be recycled, unverifiable, or minimal). 3. The payment clears through the marketplace, the seller receives an e-commerce payout, and the platform collects its final value fee. 4. The transaction secures a pristine digital paper trail. In this scenario, the marketplace unwittingly becomes a fee-based transaction wrapper. The ghost seller sacrifices normal retail profit margins to acquire the transaction record. For the platform, this activity inflates GMV, transaction volume, and fee revenue. But the revenue quality is entirely hollow. Due Diligence and the "Skeletons" Risk GameStop would not simply be buying eBay’s reported numbers; it would be buying the quality of those numbers. A rigorous due diligence process would demand deterministic telemetry analysis. Key audit questions would likely include: Are active-user metrics inflated by ghost accounts? Are there unusual, circular buyer-seller loops? Are there transaction clusters with weak evidence of physical goods movement? Are specific categories producing high fee revenue but low physical verification?

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  bumblebeetuna (@ballzack850) reported 11 minutes ago

  @eBay My 90 day total is down 25% and falling more and more everyday. No matter what or how much I list. Good times...

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  drswithoutboundaries🦋 (@drswoutbdries) reported 12 minutes ago

  @zebular0 or is wall st. widening the spread to shut the proposed deal down??? ebay rises above the $125 offer and gme slumps down to $20 or possibly below? we all know the prices are set by MM'ers

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  i am a winner (@darthdunsparce) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation Asking for trouble with this. People will sell the bad copies on ebay with no disclosure

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  Vlad Green (@VladislavGreene) reported 20 minutes ago

  $GME My 2 cents about GME buying eBay. 50% cash 50% stock. If GME market cap $10B and Ebay's $40B, so it's 20/80 split, but as GME pays out 50% cash it bring us to 80/2 = 40%, so in the end 60/40. 60% GME shareholders and 40% eBay's in the new company. The stock portion is $27.75B (half of the $125 offer). Case 1 (basic): GME has 450000000 shares outstanding. To keep the 60/40 split GME need to issue 300000000 new shares to the eBay shareholders. $27.75B / 300000000 = $92.50 implied issuance price. Total after deal = 750000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price after deal = $92.50. Case 2 (diluted): Including the 144000000 Senior Convertible Notes + 59000000 Warrants = 651000000 total GME fully diluted shares. To keep the same 60/40 split GME needs to issue 434000000 new shares to eBay's people. $27.75B / 434000000 = ~$63.94 implied issuance price. Total after = 1085000000 shares. This gives the NEW company $69.375B market cap and share price = ~$63.94.

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  Pete Bronson, CPA, CA (@rantsofmich) reported 21 minutes ago

  @lasvegas_ape Even crazier when you look at the numbers it's down ~$1B in market cap on the news it made ~$500M profit on its investment in eBay... Perfect markets in action.

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  Hey Jay (@JJeffrey100) reported 21 minutes ago

  @camolNFT Given royal pops are going for $3k on ebay already, I'd say they sold out pretty quickly. They'll be down under $1k in a week

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  IMAYSELLIT (@imaysellit) reported 25 minutes ago

  @bkj_brad @yanxchick The fake card problem is honestly why I'm skeptical of eBay for anything graded. Between fake PSA certs and people pulling bait-and-switch on auctions, it's playing roulette with your money. Sellers eat 15% fees and still get burned by buyers sending empty boxes back.