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  Kyl⭕ZΞn (@Kyl0Z3n) reported 7 minutes ago

  @glacierptrading $15 then $12. RCeO is clueless and bagging share holders intentionally. No plan. No ebay. See you down low

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  A Floyd (@Mrshoujo) reported 12 minutes ago

  @gamestop Broken stuff which will end up on eBay "for parts" and then all the retro gaming channels on YouTube will buy it up and make videos repairing it all.

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  Ed Mox (@Muddybon) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Cody_Is_Boring @musicbykwiz @JoshInEncinitas The bits get expensive..I've used some cheap Ebay ones just to test them. They weren't terrible, but cost very little. I keep a few for backup.

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  Alice 🌊❤️‍🔥🌒 (@Alice82669242) reported 14 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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  EverydayReseller (@EverydayResell) reported 14 minutes ago

  Day 194 Total sales: $599.00 eBay earnings: $102.82 Buy cost (COG): $15.54 Net profit: $87.28 ROI: 562% Today was definitely an unusual one. On paper, it looks like a slow day, but the story is a little different. 3 higher dollar orders were canceled before they shipped, which meant they hit today's numbers even though I still have the inventory ready to sell again. That's one thing I've learned about reselling, not every low profit day is a bad day. Sometimes it's returns. Sometimes it's cancellations. Sometimes it's just timing. The important part is that those items are still sitting on my shelf, ready to be sold to the next buyer. You can't control cancellations, but you can control how quickly you relist, how consistently you source, & whether you keep moving forward. Tomorrow is another opportunity, & those canceled items are already back in inventory waiting for their next sale. That's just part of the business. On to Day 195. 📦💪

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  Fangs🖤| Pro Memoria (@FangsGhostV) reported 15 minutes ago

  @CopiaFanart That’s utterly horrible! Ebay is (at least in my experience years ago), really good with refunds for scams. Hopefully they take down the ad/scammer account as well.

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  . (@Ericc5Bears) reported 16 minutes ago

  @lookatryno @eBay @CardPurchaser Was getting the same error around an hour ago, ended up fixing itself within about 30 minutes, seemingly just a technical issue with the ebay app.

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 23 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  ToppsNowToday (@josephwmayjr) reported 25 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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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 27 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  Keyser Sose (@lexyalexus) reported 28 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK there seems to be an issue with contacting eBay. Each time I request a phone call the ai bot says she’s unable to put me through then.. Goodbye.. v stressful

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  BEFORE THE POP (@beforethepop) reported 29 minutes ago

  Pikachu Stole Mario’s Grail Card Someone just paid US$33,999 for Pikachu wearing Mario’s clothes. This might be the best evidence yet that Mario’s actual rookie market is still early. The card is the 2016 Mario Pikachu #294. It is beautiful, instantly recognisable and already accepted as a modern grail. PSA has graded 2,210 copies at Gem Mint 10, yet buyers have repeatedly paid around US$30,000 for one. That is a serious population by the standards we normally hunt. Now compare it with the leading Mario rookie candidate. The Amada Donkey Kong Menko shows Donkey Kong, Pauline and Jumpman using the artwork from the original 1981 arcade cabinet. A CGC 7.5 sold through Goldin for US$12,810. Menko was a Japanese game where children tried to flip each other’s cards by smashing another card into them. Basically an industrial process for creating low-grade survivors. It is old, genuinely difficult to find in respectable condition and depicts Mario at the beginning of gaming history. The 2016 crossover has still sold for 2.7 times more. Plenty of people will see that and conclude Pokémon won. I see a Mario market that has barely started pricing its own history. Demand is clearly not the problem. Someone just paid nearly US$34,000 for a modern card because Pikachu is wearing a Mario costume. The Mario name, image and nostalgia already carry high-end money. The problem is that collectors still do not know which early Mario card to crown. The Donkey Kong Menko is widely treated as the 1981 rookie, although CGC recently changed new labels to “c.1985” because neither Nintendo nor Amada kept enough records to conclusively date it. The 1982 Topps Donkey Kong set contains “Jump Man at Work”, which Topps considers its first Mario card and gives American collectors a cleaner documented option. The 1982 Donkey Kong Jr Menko may be Mario’s first card after Jumpman was officially given the Mario name. There are multiple candidates, terrible records, tiny populations and no universally accepted checklist. Good. You do not get to be early after the hobby has agreed on the rookie, auction houses have called it a grail and every collector has saved the same eBay search. Before that happens, it looks exactly like this. The cards are difficult to identify. The dates are disputed. Listings are badly titled. Sales are infrequent. Collectors hesitate because there is no obvious answer telling them what to buy. That confusion is the discount. On our framework, early Mario clears the difficult tests. It has age, cultural importance, enormous global recognition, genuine scarcity, condition difficulty and an IP that mattered then and remains dominant now. It fails on clean canon and liquidity. Those are the two things a developing market can fix. Nobody can go back and manufacture more early Mario cards. The US$33,999 Mario Pikachu sale has already proven the ceiling exists. We are not waiting for collectors to care about Mario. They clearly do. We are waiting for that money to discover Mario’s actual early cards. The rookie market for the biggest gaming IP on Earth still hasn’t run. It is sitting right here, before the pop.

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  Ryan Helton (@Ryan_Helton44) reported 30 minutes ago

  You’re definitely going to see these on EBay soon, which absolutely blows. This way of buying tickets may get shut down sooner rather then later

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  NIGHTWATCH EXPLORATION 🇨🇺 (@NIGHTWATCHOvO) reported 30 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 32 minutes ago

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