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Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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Whatever you do, don't break eBay. I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship. We let CraigsList get broken, with seemingly much fewer sellers and buyers than it used to have. I tried Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to. But I won't install their app, and the notification emails only sometimes came through. (One buyer became very irate when…

> ”Whatever you do, don't break eBay. […] Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to.”

I too actually rely on eBay as an alternative to _every other online store_.

It’s curious you mention facebook and eBay together. I find FBMP completely unusable because of what their search feature returns—garbage. It functions like their whole platform by trying to grab your attention with things it thinks you might want (how else to interpret unrelated results?) but didn’t ask for.

Despite eBay hobbling their search feature by removing Boolean operators, I find the two platforms couldn’t be more different.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

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post #29

Whatever you do, don't break eBay. I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship. We let CraigsList get broken, with seemingly much fewer sellers and buyers than it used to have. I tried Facebook Marketplace, which is where most local buyers&sellers seemed to move to. But I won't install their app, and the notification emails only sometimes came through. (One buyer became very irate when…

First thing gamestop did when they bought Impulse (digital game distribution service) is make it US only.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KMart famously aquired the much larger Sears (and then destroyed it)

Well, that, and the CEO of Sears was an Ayn Rand fan who decided departments needed to fight each other over everything.

As a matter of fact, ESL had bought Kmart and used it as a vehicle to acquire Sears. It was the same person.

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

#77
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.m…

The synergy is "corruption"

Re: GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

#80
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can’t talk to people like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Still holding on to dramatic statements? https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/gamestop-is-offering-to-b...

Yes. Because it took less than 2 weeks for this bullshit to fall apart like we sane people all predicted.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/12/ebay-rejects-gamestops-t...

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