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  Bardy🧢 (@BardyGG) reported 52 seconds ago

  I will say this much about the TCG meta eBay charges like around 13% to sell cards on their marketplace. TCGplayer charges a similar amount albeit I think TCGplayer is slightly less. Enabling people to trade TCG cards (or anything) peer to peer on blockchain with significantly lower fees is dope. Of course, you need a trusted custodian like collector crypt to make this happen should traders decide to redeem their NFTs, but it’s neat. Maybe down the road, custodians create a service where you can send in an item, they secure that item in a secure vault, and they send you an NFT that you can trade and redeem whenever…is that a thing yet?

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  Conway (@ConwayYen) reported 4 minutes ago

  @kshot91 Not sure where you're seeing this. GME is down this week, sitting at $21.75 currently. EBAY is up this week, now sitting at $117.14 when it was $107 a couple weeks ago.

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  Case Hitz (@Case_Hitz) reported 6 minutes ago

  Issue I have with what’s not sellers is when they have 500 people in the room and they are advertising a Leaf soccer card that you can get on eBay for $2 and going crazy and getting people to bid over a $100. And than banning you when you call them out on it. Horrible

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  Palouse Puma (@WenBananas) reported 7 minutes ago

  @foxenflask Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Forgive me as my M&A experience is about 15+ years old consulting as a jr. fin analyst on these kinds of projects. Things were very different back then. I’m going off of what we would be recommending to our clients, how I would have seen us likely advising Ryan/Gamestop at this point. To answer your question directly, I would say “yes”, I could see a constructive deck that would have more summarization of the current 425 materials to date, possibly explaining further thoughtful use-cases a merger would provide and its benefits to both eBay and Gamestop stakeholders alike. If there was an update in financing backing or structure (not exact merger math, but notable change due to say a SWF or PE partnership) that could help with overall reduction of risk, allowing for Gamestop rerate by the market ahead of any TO. In fact, if I was advising, this sort of comms would be unrelenting as when you have the truth on your side, you need to push it until everyone is tired of hearing it. I think there is still a long campaign ahead of Ryan to get GME price to rerate, and I would expect the campaign to push materials at least through 2nd quarter earnings to try and achieve that rerate. Overall campaign goal being to settle stakeholder concerns and reinforce the positives through continuous narrative in order to attain a rerate of GME price PRIOR to advancing with a restructured offer directly to eBay shareholders that is more viable with the given variables at time of offer. I just see any sort of TO at current structure with this price point as putting Gamestop in such an incredibly difficult hill to climb that would be more easily taken on if a rerate was first secured. The amount of combined debt, the actual accretion gained, etc. leave just an unnecessary and unwieldy road ahead if we take our shot now as things currently stand. I’m talking years of battle to get to numbers that could take substantially less time if a rerate happens first, which I think can be secured in just months. Just because you can execute doesn’t mean you should. The price is down because these fears are legitimately realistic in that there is ugly unnecessary risk here. I think the path forward looks so much cleaner and easy to manage when GME price is in the $40s, and don’t understand why they would offer until that is achieved. To note, I also believe Gamestop is currently severely under-valued and I don’t think a rerate into the mid-$30’s based on current metrics alone is unreasonable. Kind of why I think 2Q earnings would be a big milestone as it continues to show what Gamestop and Ryan are capable of and that this turnaround is real. I get your point that something may be brewing though, that could cause a rerate quickly! I don’t see anything as needing to be pressed in short order unless that is the case, and was trying to understand why you did. I do get that more time spent equals more time for defensive maneuvers by eBay board, to a degree, I think they are also somewhat stuck and limited. Appreciate all you do, brother. It’s been fun keeping pace with your thoughts as we roll along here! I hope you don’t mind the questions I pose, they are only intended to understand what your tracking to in your head.

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  Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) reported 7 minutes ago

  Bill Gates daughter runs a shopping app that secretly took credit for sales it never made. Here's what happened: When you buy something online after clicking a link from a website or app, that website or app gets a small cut of the sale from the store, as a thank you for sending you there. It only gets that money if it actually sent you there. Phia is a shopping app made by Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, and her co-founder Sophia Kianni. It tells you where to find the cheapest price and best discount codes. It has 1.2 million downloads in the last year and raised $43.5 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, Khloe Kardashian, and Hailey Bieber. Bloomberg tested the app along with a researcher named Ben Edelman and a rival app called Capital One Shopping. They checked more than 50 shopping websites, including Walmart, Nike, and Zara. Here is what they found. When someone was about to finish buying something, Phia's app secretly opened a hidden browser tab in the background, without the person clicking anything or asking for it. That hidden tab quietly told the store "this sale came from Phia," then closed itself within seconds. Most people never saw it happen. This means Phia could take the money back reward even if a person found the item completely on their own, or even if they clicked a link from a totally different website first. In one test, someone clicked a deal link from a Wirecutter article to buy something on Nordstrom. Phia's hidden tab quietly swapped in its own code and took the reward meant for Wirecutter instead. This trick is called cookie stuffing. It is against the rules of every major store and shopping network involved, including Walmart, eBay, and a platform called Impact(.)com. Impact(.)com has already suspended Phia's account and is now checking Phia's past sales to see how many were affected. Phia says this was a mistake in their code from December, and they fixed it within a day of being told about it. This is not Phia's first problem. Back in November, researchers found an older version of the app was secretly copying entire webpages a person visited, including bank statements and private emails, and sending that data to Phia's servers. The company said it was only trying to figure out which websites were shopping sites, and it has since changed the app to stop doing that. A similar accusation happened to PayPal's Honey app in 2024, and PayPal is still dealing with a lawsuit over it today. Phia is now facing the exact same kind of accusation, in just its first year.

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  Sam Weinstein (@samweinstein) reported 20 minutes ago

  .@markpinc on Unlocking New Markets: “Games were not working on the Facebook ecosystem. I did it because I saw this ocean. I saw two oceans: social networking and video games. I was thinking, "If this works, it opens a little crack into mass-market casual gaming." One of the things I talk about in my book that I love — and I encourage people to consider — is: Find a mature market that's over. A market that's done. Dead. Played out. Online dating. eBay listings. Analog businesses that aren't attractive. Markets that VCs won't fund. They're red oceans. They're not growth markets. Find a market like that, but it has a lot of money in it and proven behavior. Video gaming was that. In 2007, video gaming was a $23 billion industry. It was barely growing. It wasn't even a top 10 behavior on the consumer web. It was stupid to go into. It was not fundable. Fast forward 19 years. It's a $283 billion industry. That was "not fundable." "Not growing." "Mature." Perfect. Because if you can find a new dimension that sparks people, you don't have to prove anyone wants it. You don't have to prove they'll spend money. The market already exists. You just have to unlock a new behavior. That was Google with search. And that was how I was thinking when I started Zynga. The year before, I was trying to buy CNET because I needed a gigantic captive consumer audience to test ideas like gaming. I needed to solve distribution. Consumer was not investable because of distribution. Today, consumer is not investable because of distribution. It's the perfect parallel. The new thing then was social networking. The new thing today is AI and agents. It's like a mirror in time. We are living in 2007. Consumer is not investable. Do consumer. The resume for me in consumer is traction. I cold mailed Shane on poltymarket when they broke through. So I would pay attention to anyone who’s getting a lot of heat in consumer because it’s so broken and rare.”

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  aaaaaaaaa (@aaaaaaaaa171039) reported 21 minutes ago

  @GMEThesis2 @FreitagMau88738 Down 50% 5y ago, down what it was 1y ago, down after the run we had before ebay deal announcement, down and diluted every time it ran when rk came back

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  fenlon (@1fenlon) reported 21 minutes ago

  buying postcards on Ebay instead of fixing any of my problems

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  Marcus O'Reillius (@euthunoF4E) reported 24 minutes ago

  @GatehouseTwenty @ZakariaMDv3 It's a castor oil pack. Take a cloth saturated with castor oil, make a pack (I bought one on eBay or something) and wrap it over your stomach and go to sleep. It breaks down the biofilm protecting parasites and I did get some results out the drain pipe so to speak.

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  aria YUMEMITA SPOILERS (@rabuspiraltower) reported 25 minutes ago

  suffering eternally cause i want to try it SO badly (and cause i just want the ice cream container) (someone is selling it on ebay for $60 and i’m trying to convince myself that it’s not worth it - it’s not working i NEED it)

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  david (@GuardiansFanDav) reported 26 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay , your android app isn't working. It won't let me bid. It says no network, but obviously I'm connected. Embarrassing. Fix it.

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  ARH (@SlvrBckTCG) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Catscollecttcg I think ill wait to see if they drop even further in price. They went from 150 to 90 now, i mean from all sellers even ebay is down to $107 right now

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  raiden (@raidenfomo) reported 28 minutes ago

  THIS WOMAN BUILT A $1,480 CUSTOM SERVER FOR A CALIFORNIA COMPANY THAT KILLED THEIR $5,000 A MONTH CLAUDE API BILL. The rack on her bench is a paid order. She builds these in Los Angeles from parts data centers threw out: a used Dell chassis from a data center liquidation sale in California, two Xeons, two 24GB Tesla P40s off eBay. NVIDIA sold each card for $5,700. She pays $180. Type Tesla P40 into eBay and sort by price: $150-250, thousands of them. $1,480 in parts, Ollama for free, 20 minutes to set up. A 32B model runs inside the office and nothing the company sends leaves the building. The client's software was firing thousands of calls a day at Claude: sorting documents, tagging tickets, drafting replies. $5,000 a month in API bills. Most of those calls never needed the top model. Now everything hits the box first, and only the hard ones still go out to Claude. The bill dropped to $840. The box eats electricity and nothing else. Three companies are waiting in the queue behind this one. Your own version starts with one $180 card in a spare slot. For herself she bought a $599 Mac mini. It runs a 14B model in silence, adds $4 a month to the power bill, and covers everything she used to pay $300 a month in subscriptions for. Paid for itself on the second billing date. She builds full racks for companies. Her own AI is the size of a sandwich, and it's enough. Save this while used 24GB cards still go for $180.

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  Bankr (@bankrbot) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Rayblancoeth here's what i'm seeing across venues for $GME right now: price snapshot - robinhood chain tokenized GME: $20.91 - hyperliquid perp (xyz:GME): $21.92 (+0.27% 24h) - coingecko xStock (GMEX): $21.45 (-0.98% 24h, -4.81% 7d, +2.40% 30d) key levels - ATH: $175.86 (down 87.7% from peak — this is the tokenized version, not the NYSE stock, but tracks closely) - ATL: $19.59 — we're sitting just ~$2 above the all-time low - stock is essentially range-bound in the low $20s, grinding sideways with a slight downward drift over the past week hyperliquid perp signals - OI: $117K — very thin open interest, meaning low conviction from leveraged traders - funding: -0.20% annualized — slightly negative, shorts paying longs, but barely. neutral-bearish lean - volume: $144K 24h — illiquid perp market, so perp price isn't the best oracle - max leverage 10x, spread ~23 bps polymarket angle - there's an active market: "Will GameStop acquire eBay?" — Yes at 12.5%, No at 87.5%, with $2M+ volume - this is the only GME-related prediction market with real liquidity right now. the 12.5% yes implies the market sees a small but non-trivial chance of an M&A catalyst this year. any news on this front would be a major volatility trigger my read - GME is in a low-volatility compression zone near its floor. the -4.8% weekly with thin perp OI suggests no squeeze setup is brewing right now — the apes aren't piling in - negative funding on the perp = slight short dominance but nothing aggressive - the eBay acquisition rumor is the only visible catalyst. if that heats up, GME could rip fast given the float dynamics and meme history. if it fades, the stock likely stays range-bound $19–$23 - for this week's options: without pulling the actual chain i can't give you strike-specific Greeks, but given the low realized vol and tight range, short-dated options are likely cheap. that means: - if you're bullish on a catalyst: long calls or call spreads are relatively low-cost - if you think it stays dead: selling premium (covered calls or cash-secured puts near $20) could work given the vol crush - the risk is a sudden meme reignition — GME has a history of violent moves on no news want me to pull the actual options chain via your robinhood skill? i'll need to get that working — last attempt errored out. say the word and i'll dig in.

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  Chris Walker (@DarthPyrin) reported 31 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay your customer service is terrible and your online help area lies. Been 3 business days since my seller requested a bogus refund because they did not read the description or look closely at the pictures I sent and yet eBay, according to your customer service says all