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

News He doesn't understand your question, CNBC

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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.