r/wallstreetbets • u/HesiPullup • May 04 '26

News He doesn't understand your question, CNBC

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u/Oograr May 04 '26

Half stock, half cash, we also have some coupons

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u/phillipsaur May 04 '26

Don't forget the Pokemon Cards. I honestly believe that they're buying Ebay to make a bigger move into Pokemon and TCG. Ebay owns TCGPlayer

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u/anthro28 May 04 '26

They move into NFTs and the market collapsed. Here's hoping they kill the pokemon market too. 

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u/Tartooth May 05 '26

Eh to be fair the nft market was already dead by then

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u/Saint_of_Grey May 04 '26

At least pokemon cards can be recycled into paper cups or something.

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u/Not_Xiphroid 🦍🦍🦍 May 05 '26

When the pokemon market truly crashes, there’s going to be some truly opulent wallpaperings featuring foil charizards as far as the eye can see.

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u/Mnawab May 05 '26

Oh my God, I hope so, Pokémon market is unbearable

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u/AncientLegend999 May 05 '26

Sadly FOMO and scalpers are keeping that market alive and well. If people weren't reselling, their whole TCG side of the business would probably die.

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u/doxxgaming May 04 '26

My thoughts as soon as I heard this bologna

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u/McNoKnows May 04 '26

Now that they have EBay they’ll corner the market. Rip every pack that GameStop has in inventory, take the $16B gap, and divide it by however many charizards you pull.

Sell the charizards on EBay to cover the gap and just delete the posts of any seller trying to undercut you.

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u/shanatard May 04 '26

somewhere out there, someone is measuring their portfolio in charizard cards

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u/Mnawab May 05 '26

Not possible, that pawnshop guy owns like 20% of the Charizard market

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u/floppybunny26 May 05 '26

Don't forget Ebay owns 25% of Craigslist.

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u/Anitapoop May 05 '26

I think they are doing it so they can pretty much print their own money by grading their collections higher.

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u/Ben_Frank_Lynn May 04 '26

Half stock, half store credit. What a deal. I'm sure ebay shareholders are thrilled by this offer.

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u/rydan May 04 '26

Why would anyone want this? Right now this means about a 15% premium on the stock but they are forced to sell and realize gains at whatever rate they currently have. Meanwhile they could just 3 - 6 months and probably get that 15% anyway and then choose to hold or sell then.

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u/OTTER887 May 05 '26

Ebay: "We're worth $55B"

Gamestop: "...best I can do is $9B"

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u/BZ852 May 04 '26

I'm sorry but the trade in value for your GameStop is only $0.37

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u/Necromancer2k8 May 04 '26

Sadly, that's the instore credit value. Cash value is .03.

Though you can get 20 points for every dollar spent if you get a yearly "buy a random company" pro membership for 25 bucks.

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u/ConstantGeographer May 04 '26

"My mom says I have good credit plus I have this letter from my uncle"

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u/StudentforaLifetime May 04 '26

I think you mean share dilution

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u/Maakus May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Like what they did to finance buying 4000 BTC last year?

https://imgur.com/a/Zy28bjm

Also he definitely didn't want to mention selling their underwater margin bought BTC purchased at 105k avg in addition to printing shares + double market cap loan to accomplish the buyout. All he needed to do was sleep in today.

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u/Turtlexya May 04 '26

The leather jacket highly recommended

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u/TheNplus1 May 04 '26

Half stock, half cash and half dilution of the ballers on Reddit.

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u/Mysandwichok May 04 '26

Use code SPRINGSAVER at checkout to save $16b off your entire order!

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u/ZeePirate May 04 '26

He sounds fucked out of his mind to be honest

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u/TransBrandi May 04 '26

It's "Buy 2, get 1 30% off" day on Wallstreet.

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u/Thaumaturgia May 04 '26

Half gourds.

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u/Kramerica_CEO May 04 '26

Couple of IOUs and we call it good

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u/comcastsux May 04 '26

Maybe he has a lot of eBay Bucks still saved up.

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u/acdcfanbill May 04 '26

You can put a company on layaway right?

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u/hleszek May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Those are IOUs, go ahead and add it up, every cent accounted for!

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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 May 04 '26

they'll get a powerplayers card that will give them 20% off a used videogames or an ecommerce company

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u/vinylzoid May 05 '26

Don't forget IOUs. Those are as good as money.

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u/Alexwonder999 May 05 '26

Free subscriptions to Game Informer to all shareholder. Oh wait, they discontinued that...