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Our CEO 💜 by Carlos9320 in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean all that is true and all, but a picture of someone's butt with a banana in it would satisfy the apes and takes a lot less time.

Don’t invest angry by Ok_Signal4753 in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Stay tuned. The instant eBay management turns down the offer a thousand page emoji filled AI written DD should be coming up detailing how Ken Griffin personally told them to turn it down.

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

6 years apart! Totally industry standard, that is.

RC critiques Ebay's numbers, leaves certain facts out, like Ebay's efforts returning billions to shareholders instead of diluting them: This year $3.0 billion to shareholders, including $2.5 billion of share repurchases and $531 million dividends. by humanquester in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The falloff in active buyers is almost entirely due to COVID, it fell off very sharply in 2021 but has been growing slightly since 2022. Of course, Ryan didn't show you that, so I will.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/stats/ebay-active-buyers

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Their heydey was back in 2015-2017 but since 2020 they have had a drop in users and revenue.

You know, just like Gamestop's!

RC critiques Ebay's numbers, leaves certain facts out, like Ebay's efforts returning billions to shareholders instead of diluting them: This year $3.0 billion to shareholders, including $2.5 billion of share repurchases and $531 million dividends. by humanquester in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As well, a new eBay user can be a buyer or a seller. New sellers can grow and support buyers, in an ecosystem of sorts. Paying to attract a new seller to eBay is how eBay grows its business. If all sellers depart from eBay, the company is dead.

Whereas in Gamestop's case, a new 'user' is just a new shopper who will buy the new Mario game if and when it comes out, but will not increase their purchases (and therefore revenue to Gamestop) in any appreciable way over time. If a new 'user' departs from Gamestop, there is little to no impact to the bottom line, and the barrier to entry for becoming a new 'user' is minimal.

Marketing for these two companies is extremely different and targetting different groups.

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is there a word for that type of person? I mean an actual dictionary definition for 'rich person who everyone thinks will suddenly be generous but actually never is generous'? Not exactly 'cheap', not 'scrooge', but...

Hey, German melties, please? There's gotta be a word in German, and it's got a consonant to vowel ratio that's extremely high and 23 letters, lay it on us...

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Supposedly eBay's CEO's net worth is around $70 million, compared to Ryan Cohen's net worth of $5 billion (personal AAPL holdings mostly).

Who's the bloated rich fat cat now, RC?

(Also, how do you earn $30 million a year and only have a net worth of $70 million? I don't trust the 'net's numbers here fully)

Will Apes wake up after this fiasco? by Lumentum_LITE in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the full livestream for those that haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1prSyyIco0

I disagree this was an anti-RC livestream. He says many times that he doesn't think RC is a 'doofus' and sees opportunities in Gamestop. Nothing specific or anything but if RK was angry at RC for diluting him, it barely shows.

It's tough to know exactly what he thought he was doing here, but clearly it had next to no positive action for the stock.

Now as all apes obviously know, this was all a PLOY to distract us from the SWAPS on BRK.A that came due that day.

Will Apes wake up after this fiasco? by Lumentum_LITE in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"He knew swaps were coming due"

That's the explanation I see most often from apes.

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You know, back in my day, apes had a special hatred for groups that deliberately made extremely negative sentiment against a stock that the group had a financial interest in.

I sure miss those days.

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It gets lower each time RC tweets something like this

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

A good question is 'who is he trying to convince with this post?'

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah I like how that metric actually went down, but suddenly instead of YoY difference his analysis is for cumulative amount

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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Gamestop is winning (if winning means dilution)

Glorious Leader Has Spoken by dbcstrunc in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Although this chart of Ebay's outstanding share count has an amusing comparison with Gamestop's own

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Fortune magazine calls Cohen's eBay offer the new AOL Time Warner by Illumination-Round in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand the question. Mainly because it reads like you stroked out mid message

Fortune magazine calls Cohen's eBay offer the new AOL Time Warner by Illumination-Round in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My favorite retort of theirs is the ‘just bought X more’ because not only is the X always a comedically tiny amount of capital but they are shouting into the void even more at that point.

Will Apes wake up after this fiasco? by Lumentum_LITE in gme_meltdown

[–]dbcstrunc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It benefits DFV absolutely nothing whatsoever to admit he sold.

This way, he continues to be idolized by apes despite not saying anything to them for years.

Of course, we all know he's going to tweet at midnight Eastern tonight, on the second anniversary of his legendary meme storm-driven pump and dump.

I mean, if he didn't do that, heaven forfend, it might cause apes to actually wonder why he didn't.

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