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  Kal5 (@Kal5_) reported 2 minutes ago

  @hamati351840512 @prisma_illya US release of season 1 is not sold anywhere anymore. (unless it is $300 or more on ebay, and that's rare) You can buy season 2/3 US just fine at normal price As to why, I would like to know. But releasing another season in the US when you can't buy the first season is a problem.

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  Xah Lee (@xah_lee) reported 9 minutes ago

  the ugly web dev history, frontend. I was ignorant of JavaScript and frontend tech, from 1999 to 2010. am a web backend dev in 1998. back then, professional programers sneer JavaScript (and php). except, those big corp actually need to use it sans choice, such as gmail, google map, amazon, ebay. (the need to update page sans reloading the whole page.) Only when Node.js in 2009 By Ryan Dahl, changed things. It introduced the async, which puzzled and derided by most programers. (async, a pain in the ***. One of the worst thing in programing language history, still so today, even with latest await etc. Reason is because js is single threaded. Async is a pretend fix on this concurrency issue.) In 2010 js did not have a library system. (nor did php, scheme lisp, for the first 10 years of their life. emacs lisp has no module/namespace to this day.) Commonjs and amdjs module system mess got introduced in the wild. A very complicated mess, which created concepts like bundlers (browserify, webpack), code repo and package manager (bower, npm), task runners (gulp). npm is a corp greed, designed so that 1 line code is considered a lib, to promote its popularity. Then in 2015, js finally had some basic features, such as real local scoped variable (let), real dictionary/hashtable/map data structure. but for reason, the JavaScript committee refused a “use new js”. (google chrome dev got stun by a “use strict”.) So, one thousands warts of js, stay in js. (such as var, use strict, string is utf16 and all methods cant deal with emoji, no real array masking as magical object with magical length. etc.) JavaScript landscape, is really 30 years of **** pile due to a in-10-days mistake. But cpp is worse.

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  Val Vel (@ValVel23) reported 9 minutes ago

  @voxmaxxingg @jordan_rintoul If someone does do it there is a bit of a problem but it’s nothing major eBay is a website that started in the 90s And past Vox is way before that

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  Val Vel (@ValVel23) reported 16 minutes ago

  @diuueliz @voxmaxxingg If someone does do an animatic there is a bit of a problem but it’s nothing major eBay is a website that started in the 90s And past Vox is way before that Maybe it would fit modern Vox more in that aspect But I honestly really love past Vox more 😭for this

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  Ray Martin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@RayMartin79059) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Louise81637779 @ChefGruel I found out the same when I moved to Florida. The lettuce seems to last about a week longer than in the southwest. We used to use the tupperware salad containers - we bought several from ebay because they're difficult to find. The problem for us is that if you keep three heads - three tupperware containers take up a lot of space. And TBH - after experimenting for awhile, we found that wrapping them with a thin white kitchen towel, placing them in a ziplock and removing the air gains us about a week of freshness and they actually can go in the crisper trays..

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  Sergio D (@sergiod2262) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Sergbytes @eBay_UK Same for me. Somebody got an absolute bargain because no one could bid. It’s clearly some eBay issue.

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  HeroAssange (@HeroAssange) reported 23 minutes ago

  25 years ago one of these anchors would have brought in Ebay CEO Jamie Iannone when they are interviewing Ryan Cohen Split screen, have it out in public. Jerry Springer style Thats the problem with the leadership at Ebay. They are installed puppets to a company that was 99% insitutionally owned. Blackrock doesnt get mad when they pay themselves extortionate fees, thats a part of the game The big companies have the same group of people moving from one company to the next. They are there to extract value for themselves and their friends. Thats it

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  Pat(ricia) (@materialculture) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ValueAddedRS And then they pulled the recorded live down, eliminating the video sales receipts!! Hard to believe ebay found another way to not think things through.

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  Lightheart (@IciclePrism) reported 24 minutes ago

  I would like him to spend a lot of money looking into spring technology for air rifles. I have a souped up Beeman R 10 air rifle. It may or may not have ever been used, but I think someone did some work on it because it seems to have more power than my Beeman R 1. I bought it off of eBay. It looks like it’s been in storage for about 30 years. They cause it looks new, but they haven’t made them for about 30 years. I put a little moly oil on the spring, and a few drops of chamber oil down the transfer port. I’ve been shooting it for about a year. It’s very accurate. It has enormous power. These billionaires should spend a little money on air rifle spring technology. ———

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  Excellent Driver (@newconciousness) reported 25 minutes ago

  At worst, @ebay has a credibility problem that has persisted for many years now. Fix your problems or suffer. That's my best advice to you as a business partner to millions of people on the planet.

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  Julie Wade (@julie_wade) reported 28 minutes ago

  The Activist’s Weapon: Deconstructing GameStop’s $4 Billion Synthetic Long on eBay How Corporate Treasuries Weaponize Derivatives Microstructure to Force Physical Delivery and Bypass Traditional Risk Constraints When standard institutional funds trade multi-billion-dollar derivative books, they are usually hunting for alpha, managing delta, or avoiding margin-call liquidations. But when a cash-rich corporate treasury plays the options market, the rules of financial gravity warp completely. The recent revelation that GameStop (GME) converted its massive derivatives footprint into a direct 9.8% voting stake in eBay (EBAY) provides a masterclass in modern activist market microstructure. Let’s break down the quantitative dynamics of this trade, how it survived dealer-hedging feedback loops, and why traditional risk metrics failed to predict the outcome. 1. The Anatomy of a $4 Billion Synthetic Long A synthetic long position replicates the linear payoff profile of owning stock by simultaneously: Buying an at-the-money, or near-the-money, call option; and Selling or writing an identical put option with the same strike price and expiration date. According to traditional put-call parity, the relationship is: Call premium minus put premium equals the current stock price minus the present value of the strike price. In plain terms: C represents the call premium. P represents the put premium. S represents eBay’s current stock price. K represents the strike price. T represents the expiration date. r represents the applicable interest rate. Leverage Amplification and Notional Exposure The math: GameStop accumulated options representing roughly 39 million underlying shares at an average strike price of approximately $101.30. The notional footprint: This created an enormous total notional exposure of approximately $3.96 billion. The volatility multiplier: Because of the position’s massive scale, even minor percentage movements in the underlying stock produced enormous absolute changes in mark-to-market profit and loss. A “small” 2% adverse move on a roughly $4 billion book creates an immediate $80 million paper drawdown. 2. Microstructure and the Dealer-Hedging Trap When a single participant builds a multi-billion-dollar synthetic position, it alters the risk profile of the entire options chain. The market makers—or dealers—sitting on the opposite side of GameStop’s trade were forced to hedge their exposure dynamically. Because the dealers were short the synthetic long—short calls and long puts—their position carried negative delta. To remain delta-neutral, the dealers had to buy billions of dollars of underlying eBay stock in the open market. The sequence was straightforward: GameStop builds a long synthetic position. Dealers inherit the opposing short-synthetic exposure. That exposure produces negative delta. Dealers must buy eBay shares in the open market to hedge it. The Gamma Loop If the underlying stock price drops, dealers encounter gamma—the rate at which delta changes as the stock price moves. In plain terms: Gamma measures how quickly an option position’s delta changes in response to a change in the underlying stock price. As eBay’s share price decreases, the dealers’ required hedge ratios shift rapidly. In a typical speculative environment, this can trigger a negative feedback loop. A falling stock price forces dealers to unwind—or sell—their hedges to remain neutral, potentially accelerating the downside through a classic domino effect or volatility-clustering cascade. 3. Risk Tolerance: War Chests Versus Margin Triggers In a standard hedge-fund framework, an adverse swing on a multi-billion-dollar derivative position triggers immediate internal risk-management mechanisms. Value-at-Risk Breaches Escalating volatility can automatically force the fund to reduce its position. Psychological and Board Pressure Stop-losses may be triggered to protect capital and quarterly performance reporting. Collateral and Margin Calls Leveraged participants can be forced to liquidate at the worst possible structural moment, as demonstrated by the Archegos collapse. The GameStop Anomaly GameStop’s internal team—with Director Julie Wade highlighting the strategy—explicitly noted that the company held through a $12 million drawdown during the accumulation phase. On a roughly $4 billion notional book, a $12 million drawdown represents an incredibly tight variance of approximately 0.3%. More importantly, GameStop’s massive cash reserves—billions of dollars raised through previous equity offerings—insulated the company from systemic stress. GameStop was not trading on borrowed prime-brokerage margin. Because it possessed the hard capital necessary to purchase the underlying notional asset, the dealer-driven “gamma dominos” had no capacity to force it out of the position. 4. The Structural Shift: Physical Settlement Over Cash Rollover This is where the strategy shifts from a purely quantitative trade into a corporate hostile-takeover play. Standard quantitative funds almost always cash-settle or roll their expiring options. Their objective is to capture price discrepancies without taking delivery of the physical asset. GameStop did the exact opposite. A standard quantitative fund typically follows this path: Synthetic long → Cash settlement or rollover → Financial alpha extracted The corporate activist followed a different path: Synthetic long → HSR clearance → Physical delivery → 9.8% voting power After clearing the necessary regulatory hurdles—specifically satisfying Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust requirements—GameStop elected to take physical delivery of the 39 million shares. Instead of treating the options as an ongoing mark-to-market accounting problem, GameStop handed over approximately $3.97 billion in cash and demanded the stock. Instantly, a paper derivative position transformed into a physical 9.8% block of common equity—complete with voting rights, boardroom influence, and strategic leverage. 5. The “Monopoly Money” Paradox For retail traders and legacy funds, a multi-billion-dollar derivative position represents an extraordinarily high-stakes risk calculation. But when an activist corporate treasury holds a structural cash surplus, the traditional mechanics of profit and loss undergo a profound paradigm shift. At this point, it is just monopoly money to them. The more they lose, the more voting shares they acquire. They will either make profits on their longs—or take stock when the market moves against them. When an entity is completely unleveraged and indifferent to short-term mark-to-market pain, price depreciation is no longer simply a risk. It becomes a discount. If the market rises, the synthetic long generates billions of dollars in financial profit. If the market falls, GameStop can absorb the temporary paper drawdown, trigger physical settlement, and acquire the company’s equity at a lower cost basis. That is the ultimate asymmetric corporate macro play: Heads, they win financial alpha. Tails, they absorb your voting power. $GME $EBAY @ryancohen

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  James Griffiths (@JamesGr90508074) reported 32 minutes ago

  @K_W0mb4t @eBay Ye same for me mate. I’ve chased and chased and they just say sorry it’s a technical issue and it’s been logged as a complaint. Absolutely useless

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 35 minutes ago

  eBay has the brand and platform to be the YouTube of live shopping but they can’t get their act together for simple things like automated emails to customers explaining why their accounts are being auto-suspended by their grandmas AI system that $EBAY has policing the backend. @ryancohen and $GME please fix things like this ASAP when you get in there. eBay’s CTO seems to be behind the curve.

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  Leeroy Jerkin (@JerkinLeeroy) reported 39 minutes ago

  @DreamcatcherDK @LeeChinchang @HeroAssange True but it's much more than 10%. They can maybe get 20% with their cash but then would need financing. Going over 10% also triggers the poison pill which will allow eBay to issue shares at a huge discount (not available to GameStop) diluting all shareholders.

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  MangiMi (@MangiMi2) reported 39 minutes ago

  @bitwsammy eBay doesn’t authenticate based on card classification. They will reject authentication if there’s major damage, but they let so much other **** go. Maybe you haven’t bought many cards before but this is a massive problem right now with many buyers. I bid on the card thinking it was a camera glare. When I got it, it was dented bad. Description says this exactly lol, that if it isn’t listed, theres no damage.