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Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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Ryan Cohen rarely does interviews & Lauren Thomas is one of the few journalists he agreed to speak to, they had an interview earlier this year - https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/gamestop-ceo-plans-e8440c...

If you check eBay & GME's stock prices after the announcement, the market seems to think there are at least serious discussions here if not more.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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> GameStop, which had a market value of around $11 billion [...] EBay is several times GameStop’s size, with a market value around $45 billion as of Friday’s close. > Details of the potential offer for eBay couldn’t be learned. This appears to be an attention stunt, of which Cohen has done a few since GME became a meme stock.

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NFT’s and crypto nonsense, for starters. Go look him up and what he has done at GameStop. He’s not exactly shy about his plans and likes to make dramatic statements.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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post #11

Ryan Cohen rarely does interviews & Lauren Thomas is one of the few journalists he agreed to speak to, they had an interview earlier this year - https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/gamestop-ceo-plans-e8440c... If you check eBay & GME's stock prices after the announcement, the market seems to think there are at least serious discussions here if not more.

GME stock price is not really a reliable metric for measuring the seriousness of anything.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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post #11

Ryan Cohen rarely does interviews & Lauren Thomas is one of the few journalists he agreed to speak to, they had an interview earlier this year - https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/gamestop-ceo-plans-e8440c... If you check eBay & GME's stock prices after the announcement, the market seems to think there are at least serious discussions here if not more.

Does “the market” not mean meme stock investors in this instance though?

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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post #7

> GameStop, which had a market value of around $11 billion [...] EBay is several times GameStop’s size, with a market value around $45 billion as of Friday’s close. > Details of the potential offer for eBay couldn’t be learned. This appears to be an attention stunt, of which Cohen has done a few since GME became a meme stock.

Maybe but we have a recent sample of Paramount ($12b) acquiring WB ($62b).

Besides the Larry Ellison, Trump, and Middle East backing, Paramount and WB's businesses have synergy.

Gamestop and eBay have no synergy. Gamestop can't possibly run eBay better than eBay's current management. It's a meme stock looking to make noise so they can get a higher stock price, and then unload their shares onto the public market to raise cash.

GME has 3x'ed their shares outstanding since Covid.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GME/gamestop/share...

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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> GameStop, which had a market value of around $11 billion [...] EBay is several times GameStop’s size, with a market value around $45 billion as of Friday’s close. > Details of the potential offer for eBay couldn’t be learned. This appears to be an attention stunt, of which Cohen has done a few since GME became a meme stock.

I’ve searched the net to find the example, but I remember this happening during the dot com era too… Some unknown tiny company made an offer to takeover Yahoo (or some similar company)… the tiny company made headlines for a moment then disappeared again. It was an example of dot com silliness. Can’t for the life of me remember, and Google can’t seem to either.

Similar to when koenigsegg attempted to purchase saab, it can be a great way to get publicity.
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