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  𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥 📚 (@dashiellclipp) reported 9 minutes ago

  This point by @Asmongold is relevant for all digital media. I purchase ebooks mostly from Kobo bc I can strip the DRM for backups, but Kindle owners can’t do the same anymore. Their ebooks aren’t actually theirs, and Amazon can update the story content on you or even remove the ebooks just like Sony recently removed 550 movies from user libraries. Remember when Amazon removed purchased copies of 1984 from user libraries in 2009? Let’s circle back to gaming and consider the second hand NSW & NS2 market. The Switch is now seen as physical media’s main defender, yet a used game off eBay can trigger Nintendo to block your console’s online access if the prior owner ripped and shared it. Or GFCs. Yes, they can be traded between friends and resold legally, but they will always be a dongle that needs authorization before it will play. Same with game Nintendo licensing in general. I can’t tell you how many times I couldn’t play my legally purchased Pokémon game on my legally purchased Switch Lite bc a family member was using the family NS2 with my linked account at the same time. (You can fix that particular annoyance, but Nintendo doesn’t make it intuitive.) Yes, having physical editions of games is important, but licensing with DRM benefits corporations, not consumers. It means we don’t own what we purchase, even if we hold it in our hands.

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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 12 minutes ago

  A company with 30 employees made $1 billion a year. Not Google. Not Facebook. Craigslist. At its peak, revenue per employee was 10-20x Google's. The founder did everything "wrong": rejected billions from VCs, ran zero ads, and demoted himself to customer support. Then within 6 years, revenue crashed 70%+. Here’s the real story. • Started as a simple email list in 1995 by Craig Newmark, an IBM programmer. • Friends asked to post jobs and rentals. He built a bare-bones website — intentionally ugly, like a community bulletin board. • Zero marketing spend. Network effects did all the work. • In 1999, he made it a for-profit company but kept 99% free. Charged only for some job posts in a few cities. • In 2000, he stepped down as CEO to become a customer service rep. He didn't like managing people. • The result: ~30 employees, ~$1B annual revenue (reportedly, around 2018). For comparison, Google's per-employee revenue was ~$1.2M; Facebook's ~$1.6M. Craigslist's was $20-35M. • They rejected every opportunity to make more money. Every niche they dominated was later turned into a billion-dollar company by someone else: • Jobs → LinkedIn • Housing → Zillow • Goods → eBay, Facebook Marketplace • Then crises hit: • 2004: eBay bought 30% of Craigslist without founders' consent. Legal battle followed. Craigslist converted to an LLC to avoid shareholder profit demands. • 2009: "Craigslist killer" — a medical student used the site to commit murder. The adult services section, worth $36M/year, was shut down. • Mobile revolution: Craigslist stayed ugly and desktop-only. Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016, fully mobile, with real names. It surpassed 1 billion users by 2021. • Revenue reportedly dropped from ~$1B (2018) to ~$300M (2023). A 70% decline. The irony? The same principles that built Craigslist killed it: • 99% free → no money to modernize • No investment → no strategic pivot • Anti-commercial → picked apart by specialists Craig Newmark today lives in an apartment, owns no car, keeps pigeons. He's donated over $500M to journalism — the very industry his site helped destroy. This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of choices. You can live by your values and be comfortable. But markets don't wait. Craigslist's decline was a choice. Takeaway: If you don't evolve, you get eaten. Security and growth rarely coexist. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #Craigslist #BusinessLessons

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  Cultured_Anon (@Cultured_Anon) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CosmicRichy @Ro_z1e Discs are not the core issue, it's the DRM, the lack of owning anything and the fact eBay it can be taken away, Valve has proven themselves to he customers where Sony keeps taking away

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  Devils Joint (@DevilsJointX) reported 15 minutes ago

  @NJDevilsMusee I get my cards (for the most part) by buying single packs and unseen auctions on ebay. Never more than 2 packs from the same store- always from different places so they aren’t coming from the same cases- this also works with upperdeckEPack. The issue with this is you might not find single packs of certain sets- I saw OPC platinum one pack 35$- I never buy those- I’ve gotten big OPC Platinum hits from regular OPC packs bc they toss cards from other sets into the cheaper sets-I don’t really know sites to look at regarding x accounts or breakers or anything bc I mostly just do it on my own and my process/the way I seperate where I get them from and when I get them has proven to be a solid. If this doesn’t make sense dm me lol

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  Kage Invests 影 (@Investmentkage) reported 17 minutes ago

  @alexthegoodlife @SparkingFIRENC Found it’s easier to sell at shows and facebook groups. eBay takes a 13% fee. And I included shipping on all of my cards so really if I was selling lower value cards I didn’t make much. But that shows a lot of vendors need 1-10 dollar cards and a lot of them are happy to pay me 80% sometimes more if I sell an entire organized collection. There’s definitely ways to make money on eBay with bulk and stuff like doing master sets and stuff like that for hollows and non-hollows for collectors that want to get those easily and fast. But honestly, I’m a bit lazy and I treat this as a hobby and not a job. As long as my cost basis is zero or lower i don’t care haha. Also with eBay, it was a bit annoying to deal with some customers when you’re selling low value cards. I had the most problems with selling literally two dollar cards versus $200 cards. What if I just sell out a show or through Facebook groups it’s way easier less time intensive and I make more money on lower value cards.

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Xeloris1 Fair point on the current market cap, GME has been dragged down partly by the arb short pressure and deal uncertainty, sitting closer to $9-10B right now. The $12B figure was the pre-bid reference point from when the offer was first announced in May. On the VWAP question, yes, the actual exchange ratio in a stock-for-stock leg of a deal like this is typically set based on a VWAP collar, usually a 10, 20 or 30-day VWAP around signing or a fixed ratio with a walk-away collar. So if GME's share price stays depressed, eBay holders negotiating the stock leg would demand either more GME shares per eBay share, a tighter collar, or a higher cash mix to compensate. That actually makes the current GME weakness interesting. If the deal prices the stock leg off a depressed VWAP, GME issues more shares to cover the $27-28B equity leg, which dilutes legacy GME holders below the 30% figure. But if GME's price recovers before the exchange ratio is locked, legacy holders retain more of NewCo. So the 30% is a snapshot at $12B. At $10B it probably slides toward 26-27% of NewCo on the same math, and the path back toward mid-30s% on economic look-through gets a little longer. The thesis is the same, the entry point is just more sensitive to where the VWAP lands at signing.

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  Chris F (@Chris83936803) reported 21 minutes ago

  @AMCbiggums Everyone fears big dilution but if we acquire ebay we will have a much much higher market cap and default share float.. so the math is completely new when RC would issue more shares. Am i wrong here?

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  Jasmine “CEO of Olive Silverlock” Tracy 🍉 (@MegaMekaLesbian) reported 21 minutes ago

  I wanna try and replace the broke right door and windshield on my Studio Series ‘07 Bee but every copy on eBay is either £50+ or ALSO HAS A BROKEN RIGHT DOOR

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  Matty Thomas Engel (@matt_t_matty) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hey @eBay @eBayde, what’s up with the endless security loops when using a VPN? Half the world uses a VPN for many reasons nowadays. The constant, repetitive verification checks even without VPN are incredibly annoying! Fix your login system! #eBay

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  TheGreatDivider (@gr8divider) reported 24 minutes ago

  @WeebyRevy @moonlitlupines I have several PS3 games on disc...but some I didnt buy on Ebay or anything I have no problems sailing the seven seas and FTP-ing those files to my PS3. Way easier than hdldump-ing my games to my PS2 HDD, and PS2 fails FTP more often than succeeds

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  Eddie McPigskin (@eddiemcpigskin) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Get_BIG_Cards @eBay Fingers crossed. Luckily most of the cards that are sliding out aren't damaged although it looks terrible. If you have a tempering situation like me make sure to take pictures and hop on a call/chat with ebay!

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  OnlyCharizard (@OnlyCharizard) reported 27 minutes ago

  @packfaxai A lot of people put PSA 10 contender not because they actually believe its a 10, but to manipulate search results. If someone is searching PSA 10 theirs will show up. Its search manipulation which is against eBay TOS & if you report them eBay will sometimes take them down.

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  Warge (@Warge6) reported 27 minutes ago

  @SMACT72 @HamishDBG @Telegraph Good luck getting your initial issue they are called stores not issues for a reason Best get and buy it quickly off eBay

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  Nadine Babu (@NadineBabu) reported 27 minutes ago

  @daninky @craftsman Trust me, I've been searching eBay for literally years. I even found one, and then they never shipped it. They are either $200-300 dollars, or not working and just sold for parts. Probably easier for you with a 1 year old item than me with a 7 year old mower.

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  Zack Becker (@DasBecker) reported 28 minutes ago

  @JeremyMVisser This is actually horrendous. All cheap plastic jackets , the fit will be terrible and quite lacking. Using eBay will get you much further. I would strongly discourage buying Amazon clothes, like a jacket for $50 that is alpha sizing. Waste of money.