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  kurkosdr (@kurkosdr) reported 7 minutes ago

  @james_droog @lauriewired A similar thing almost happened to me on eBay when I bid on an okay-but-not-great vintage laptop with Nvidia 3D Vision: "set max bid to €600 so I won't have to monitor the auction", but someone matched me and (fortunately) outbid me! (they backed away after, but not my problem)

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  PanoramaDan (@PanoramaDanB) reported 8 minutes ago

  @DrElectronX @RandyWKirk1 Major tech companies pre-dot-com bubble peak (late 1990s–2000): Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Oracle, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell, HP, AOL, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, eBay. If you wind the clock forward 10 yrs everyone of these except AOL lives on its own or was merged. My point is that most of the leaders in the tech industry would survive a bubble bust if it happened tomorrow. I saw the bubble coming and moved to cash befire the dot. com bubble, but I was scared out of the market for 10 years and missed the rapid rebound of the tech leaders. Timing a bubble is a fools game. Buy quality companies whose competitive advantages will endure in down times.

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  John Bumstead (@RDKLInc) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Krishell1985 You can still pick them up on eBay for a couple hundred. Fix the mistake! :-)

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  KarmaWraith (@KarmaWraith) reported 10 minutes ago

  @akiraa_tanaka These sell for around $300 broken on ebay. Found one in a bin at the local thrift store last year and flipped it

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  Shoebox_Stadium (@ShoeboxStadium) reported 11 minutes ago

  Was trying to put some cards up for sale on eBay today, but the option to set flat price shipping was gone. Anyone else have this issue?

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  Alice 🌊❤️‍🔥🌒 (@Alice82669242) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ThrillaRilla369 Toy R US perhaps closed down due to bad management? I noticed if a toy sold out on eBay the price would surge, and had seen toys r us followed as they raised their price to match eBay’s price on certain things 😮‍💨 kids toys at a toy store at Christmas time- to say the least. Bad times calls for desperate measure?

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  Roberto Correa (@Roberto8943018) reported 14 minutes ago

  @eBay Hello my name is Roberto order number 12-14978-57535the TV I bought got broken after 1 day and I throw it away because the returns are not accepted I dispute it for the reand the seller telling me to send the TV when is too late is in the garbage, nothing i can do

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  Pumpkin Escobar 🌵🌄🇺🇸 (@PumpkinEscobar0) reported 14 minutes ago

  @studios2491 He could have gone up Toreys *** for anyone knows. **** this guy. El Pike is now El ****. All my #4 **** on eBay tomorrow. Seriously done with this ****** after the **** he pulled last year. Your house got broken into and you went to DR? F off. Get off my team.

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  Satchel Price (@SatchelPrice) reported 17 minutes ago

  lowball offers are a non-issue, at least on eBay. set BIN minimums, ignore "what's your lowest" messages and you're basically set

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  HeroAssange (@HeroAssange) reported 18 minutes ago

  Once again I reiterate Ebay goes up = GME goes down Ebay goes down = GME goes down Bitcoin goes up = GME goes down Bitcoin goes down = GME goes down Institutional ownership goes up = GME goes down Institutional ownership goes down = GME goes down GME posts record earnings = GME goes down GME makes $600 million annual profit not including interest = GME goes down GME makes $500 million gain on Ebay stake = GME goes down CEO buys 1 million shares = GME goes down after 3 days GME gets re-rated to a buy - GME goes down GME might pull ebay offer - GME goes down New additions EBAY goes below Gamestops buy price - GME goes down EBAY goes back above Gamestops buy price - GME goes down Gamestops market cap goes near the assets they own even removing all of the debt - GME goes down Some of GTA 6 gets leaked, people love it and it will make $69 trillion- GME goes down Wall street values a company that will make $1 billion profit this year at $0

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  NIGHTWATCH EXPLORATION 🇨🇺 (@NIGHTWATCHOvO) reported 18 minutes ago

  @oelma__ slapjack! u can still get them on eBay! how i miss the good old days! they where standard issue for the N.Y.P.D.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 18 minutes ago

  Solo marketplace arbitrage operators are getting vaporized by Amazon and eBay's 2026 rules. Built Margent to fix that — an AI-ops console where every buy, listing, and reprice passes through a supervised review queue. Audited. Logged. Policy-safe.

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 27 minutes ago

  🧵 the forgotten market the standard pushback on any marketplace founder (few are left) going after horizontal C2C: „it‘s too hard. We looked at this space (and lost a lot of money)“  the core mechanic is trivial:  1. build a a place to buy and sell 2. onboard regular sellers 3. onboard regular buyers 4. match them 5. monetize the network asset  It‘s 2026 and every country has a dominant horizontal marketplace that dates back at least 10-30 yrs Founding dates Desktop era Craigslist: 1995 eBay: 1995 Blocket 🇸🇪: 1996 Ricardo 🇨🇭: 1999 Mercado Libre 🇦🇷: 1999 Gumtree 🇬🇧: 2000 Leboncoin 🇫🇷: 2006 … Mobile era Vinted 🇪🇺: 2008 OfferUp : 2011 Depop: 2011 Carousel 🇸🇬: 2012 Wallapop 🇪🇸: 2013 Facebook Marketplaces: 2016 … Void 2026 Combined valuation of all of them ~$250B I‘ve been trying to find NEW startups over the past year that go after this market and asked investors I talked to if they can point at any. The only one I found that was geared at regular sellers horizontally was tradepost raising $4M last year.  Their last iOS update was 6 months ago and hope that just means a stealth v2 or smth is coming, because it feels strangely lonely.  Like the one lunatic from Switzerland with a tiny team of 2 1/2 and the monetary firepower of a spoon trying to win a ~$250B industry.  $250B only includes what‘s visible: 80% are throwing (un)used goods away or let them depreciate. So why are we/startups are not trying to solve this? It‘s not like it‘s a niche problem or the prize of winning is too small. We now have global solutions for almost anything and our horizontal C2C trade infrastructure is running on Pearl or Java (mostly isolated by country). The UI and UX are like asking kids today to play Command and Conquer and Halo (no, they are not as good as you remember, don‘t try playing them and destroy your awesome memory) there are two camps: a) everyone failed, so it doesn’t work b) verticals win and a newer third one c) agents will replace them I‘m not going to address a) for obvious reasons  b) logical vertical fallacy that consumer convenience revolves around having ten apps to sell or buy something (un)used. c) I see some agent probability for (non-discretionary) B2C and B2B, but C2C would require the 80% offline supply to be online in the first place (which agent is taking the picture?). Automation for regular sellers is still the right move (there is also some element of selling hobby though) But C2C buyers are more like treasure hunters. They love exploring, going to the flea market. It‘s a hobby/passion. Finding that vintage lamp from the 60s for a bargain.  My daughter went happily shopping today and it wasn’t about buying smth specific, it was about the journey much more than the destination. (I personally love discovering and hate shopping btw) We‘re not going to send agents playing beach volleyball and proudly tell our friends we automated leisure.  It‘s why so many of us spend so much time on x, when we could also just ask Claude: „give me cool things to read“.  C2C has this social/culture layer that‘s really hard to capture without a timeline/feed and C2C UI tooling (swipes, taps, maps, connections, etc).  It‘s not as transactional as „how many vitamins does chocolate have?“ We addressed „big market“ and „horizontal UI/UX app layer“  I guess the most important question remains:  Why did nobody solve this yet and users are now even going to private chat groups? The people who tried were beyond smart, well funded (we‘re talking billions that were burnt). Some managed to put a (big) dent in e.g. eBay like Vinted for fashion, but we‘re still ridiculously far away from a Spotify like dominance over the global horizontal C2C app layer. Many failed to win the grand prize. Cold-start funding would be the easy answer (there are many people on earth). This is missing a much bigger issue: we forgot how building C2C works.

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  ToppsNowToday (@josephwmayjr) reported 27 minutes ago

  The Cards Are Rare. But Does @Topps Care? Joe May — Topps Now Today #Fanatics Let me warn you from the beginning: This is going to be a negative article. I do not enjoy writing negative articles about Topps NOW. I have spent the last decade collecting, promoting and defending this product. I own at least one copy of every MLB Topps NOW card. I have built a community around it. I want Topps NOW to succeed. That is precisely why I am writing this. Yesterday, I asked whether collectors care about genuinely rare Topps NOW cards. Today, I have a more uncomfortable question: Does Topps care about Topps NOW? The Joshua Báez Chase Joshua Báez just had the kind of MLB debut that Topps NOW was invented to capture: three home runs in his first Major League game. Card #555 commemorated that moment, and Topps added a relic chase consisting of redemption cards numbered to /10, /5 and 1/1. That means 16 collectors will eventually receive relic cards connected to this historic performance. Topps officially listed the three relic levels on the card’s product page. We chased them! But after speaking with some individuals in the know, my fear about the relic material was.....How do I put this? Well know I will not be changing yesterday’s article, It was pretty much spot on without me even needing to talk to anyone associated with Topps. So I will offer this advice: If you receive one of those 16 redemption cards, sell it before the finished card arrives. The redemption allows a buyer to imagine a spectacular piece of the base—a logo, a painted section, a corner or something else worthy of a 1/1, /5 or /10. Once the actual card arrives, that imagination will for sure disappear. Now I've been told that they will try to make the one of one better than it appears but they don't have to it's pretty much what you see is what you get. You may receive an ordinary, ***** piece from the top or even bottom of the base. Your 1/1 might distinguish itself primarily through foil and numbering while containing relic material that looks like it belongs in a card numbered to /99. Actually people will be pulling cards like this from flagship commemorating this exact day an exact event and it will be numbered to 99 and it will look better than your one-on-one. The redemption may honestly be more exciting than the finished card. And that's a sad state of affairs. Topps NOW Once Led the Way This was not always the situation. In 2016, Topps NOW produced event-specific base relics that were genuinely remarkable. These were not generic pieces of memorabilia pulled from storage and placed into cards having no connection to the pictured moment. The relic was part of the story. Perhaps the most iconic relic card from the early years of Topps NOW is the 2016 “Bryzzo” card. It commemorates the final out of the 2016 World Series: Kris Bryant fielding the ball and throwing it to Anthony Rizzo at first base, ending the Chicago Cubs’ 108-year championship drought. Topps created dual-autographed relic versions containing pieces of a base used during Game 7, and those pieces were MLB authenticated. Those relics received the good pieces—the jewel sections, logos, edges and other visually distinctive parts that made each card feel connected to that exact night. That is why the Bryzzo relic has become one of the defining cards of early Topps NOW. The card did not merely commemorate history. It contained a recognizable physical piece of that history. Now imagine that same moment happening today. Would the Topps NOW 1/1 receive the best section of the base? Would the /5 and /10 cards contain jewel or logo pieces worthy of the final out of a World Series? Or would Topps NOW collectors receive plain sections from the bottom while the premium pieces were saved for future pack-pulled products? I honestly feel sorry for collectors who hit some of these modern World Series relics. They may wait months for a redemption, expecting something worthy of the moment, only to receive an ordinary piece that looks nothing like a premium relic. That approach will damage the entire product line. Topps and Fanatics may generate additional revenue by saving the best pieces for Dynasty, Definitive, Transcendent and other future releases. But in doing so, they risk neglecting the product that captured the event when it actually happened. They are weakening one of the very features that helped make Topps NOW successful. Some of those 2016 cards contain tremendous logo, jewels and easily recognizable base pieces. They are distinctive, immediately recognizable and worthy of their numbering. Unfortunately, hindsight is undefeated. If Topps had known what those pieces might mean years later, perhaps it would have saved every great section of those bases for a premium 2016 commemorative product released during the tenth anniversary. Instead, Topps NOW collectors received them. Imagine that. The Bryzzo card demonstrated what Topps NOW could be. If that same card were produced under the apparent modern relic hierarchy, the pieces that made it iconic might never reach Topps NOW collectors at all. Fanatics may believe it is protecting the value of its future premium products. In reality, it may be destroying the value—and eventually the collector interest—of the product that made those pieces meaningful in the first place. My Wembanyama 1/1 I have already experienced this with my Victor Wembanyama Topps NOW 1/1 relic. I understood that a Wembanyama relic from Topps NOW might eventually be surpassed by a spectacular premium card from another product. That is business. What I did not expect was for my 1/1 to be visually outclassed by seemingly every /5 and /10 relic placed into other products. A 1/1 should represent the best available presentation—or at least something approaching it. It should not feel like the product received whatever material remained after every pack-pulled brand selected its pieces. That is the problem. The Unofficial Relic Hierarchy Topps does not publish an official chart ranking which products receive the best relic material. What collectors see, however, creates an obvious perceived hierarchy. Topps and Bowman currently support an enormous baseball portfolio: Flagship Series 1 and Series 2, Update, Bowman, Bowman Chrome, Bowman Draft, Topps Chrome, Chrome Sapphire, Logofractor, Finest, Heritage, Stadium Club, Brooklyn Collection, Dynamic Duals, Inception, Museum Collection, Pristine, Tribute, Tier One, Definitive, Dynasty and Transcendent—among others listed in Topps’ own current and recent checklist catalog. Topps’ official checklist page shows the breadth of that product lineup. Some are inexpensive. Others cost more than many collectors’ monthly mortgage payments. Yet when the impressive relic pieces are distributed, Topps NOW appears to sit beneath all of them. Topps NOW may have captured the event first. It may have sold the card while everyone was still talking about the performance. Its collectors may have financed the acquisition of the base through their purchases. But when that base is cut, the best sections appear destined for products with future revenue still attached to them. The Topps NOW sales clock has already expired. The money has already been collected. The card has not even been manufactured, but its revenue stream is finished. From a short-term business perspective, I understand the temptation. Why place the best piece into a product that can no longer generate another sale when it could become the centerpiece of a future premium release? I understand it. I just think it is shortsighted. Topps Is Teaching Collectors How to Value Its Product If Topps treats Topps NOW as the bottom of its own relic hierarchy, why should collectors treat it differently? Why should someone chase a Topps NOW 1/1 redemption when they can wait for the same base to appear in Dynasty, Definitive, Museum Collection, Tier One, Tribute or another pack-pulled release with a much more attractive piece? Why should collectors pay a premium during the 24-hour window? Why not wait, buy one base card from the cheapest eBay seller and return to chasing packs? Topps NOW created an entirely new category of collecting. It taught people to value immediacy, exact moments and verified print runs. It taught us that the first card commemorating an event could matter. But Topps cannot ask collectors to love this product more than Topps appears to love it. If the company continually reserves the best material for every other brand, it is effectively telling collectors that Topps NOW is inferior. Eventually, collectors will believe them. The Opportunity Topps Is Missing Imagine if the Joshua Báez 1/1 arrived before the season ended with a spectacular logo or jewel base piece. The winner would post it everywhere. Collectors would say, “Look at that card.” The next time Topps NOW offered a relic chase, more people would participate. More cards would sell. The photograph of that incredible 1/1 would continue advertising the product long after the original sales clock expired. That is how Topps NOW becomes stronger. It's how it became what it is today. A remarkable relic is not wasted on a completed sale. It is marketing for the next hundred sales. Instead, a disappointing relic teaches collectors not to chase the next one. That may save premium material for another product, but it slowly destroys one of the best features Topps NOW ever offered. My Advice Thankfully, Topps NOW autographs are different. I still believe those can be among the most significant cards in the entire hobby because they connect an autograph to a specific achievement almost immediately. Though even that's changing many autographs if not in other products already we'll forego a Topps Now autograph... Preferring to wait for flagship or some other more important brand. But I can no longer recommend chasing Topps NOW base relics with the same enthusiasm. They were once among the greatest things the product offered. Today, too many feel like a promise of something special followed by a routine piece of material surrounded by different-colored foil. The mockup may show an ordinary piece, so perhaps nobody can technically call it a bait and switch. But that does not make the finished card any less disappointing. So, if you receive that beautiful blue Joshua Báez redemption card, take a good look at it. Then consider taking it directly to eBay while collectors can still imagine what the relic might become. Because once the finished card arrives, the most valuable thing inside that redemption may have been the expectation. I do not want Topps NOW to fail. I want Fanatics and Topps executives to recognize that they are weakening a product that many of us genuinely love. Topps NOW does not need preferential treatment. It simply deserves relic pieces worthy of the moments it was created to preserve.

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  Rugikk (@rugikkk) reported 28 minutes ago

  Elon Musk sat for his first television interview in 2007 with $37 million behind him and 2 companies that had shipped nothing. Wired Science, one camera, a host working from a script about a rich man's hobby. The money was 8 years old by then - Zip2 sold at 27, then the company eBay bought as PayPal. None of it shows. He sits in a cubicle at SpaceX with engineers on all sides. In at 9:30. Out at 8 PM. No fixed hours. The host asks whether he ever considered the beach and the beer and the sunset. Musk says that would be torture. The host laughs at him twice - once about his age, which Musk puts at 12, and once when he asks, on camera, whether we really went to the moon. Then the interview stops being about money. Musk says after college he picked 3 problems: the internet, space, and moving the economy off mined and burned hydrocarbons to solar electric. He gives 80% of his week to SpaceX and 2 to 3 days a month to Tesla. On the moon he is blunt - 1969 we walked on it, 3 decades later we can barely reach low Earth orbit. The moon is the Arctic. Barren, small, nowhere to put a civilization. "We saw that movie in the 60s. The remake's never as good." NASA, he points out, is not a rival. NASA is a customer. Falcon 9 lifts Dragon to the space station and brings it home, replacing the shuttle from 2011. Asked who is chasing him, he says nobody with a serious chance of catching. On Branson he does the math out loud: 9 units of energy to reach Mach 3, 625 to reach Mach 25, and all of it burns off again on reentry. Different league. He had already bought a ticket. The Tesla part is a business plan, not a car pitch. The Roadster runs 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds, beats every Porsche in production and every Ferrari but the Enzo, doubles the efficiency of a Prius, and 2007 production is nearly sold out. New technology enters at high price and low volume, so the sports car comes first. Model 2 is a $49,000 sedan. Model 3 lands near $30,000. None of it had been built. The host asks why you can't buy one yet. "We haven't made them yet." The tape is 19 years old. Nothing on it was a guess.