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• Website Down (46%)
• Sign in (34%)
• Errors (19%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	5 hours ago
Joinville	Website Down	5 hours ago
Brighton	Website Down	8 hours ago
Maidenhead	Sign in	9 hours ago
Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Website Down	10 hours ago
Hebburn	Website Down	12 hours ago

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  David Wight (@TheRockOracle1) reported 5 minutes ago

  @tedfrank @ScottFriedman3 You need to re-read it, because it's clear they need to offer comparable or better tickets first ...and they use the word offer for refund which means the person has the option to turn down the refund and make them comply with getting them tickets that are comparable or better. And by the way StubHub was a client of mine before they were bought out by EBAY and that's exactly how it is supposed to play out with the priority. If you're not satisfied with the replacements tickets only turn can they offer refund.

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  Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported 6 minutes ago

  @6days1week @heydomoshi Doesn’t matter in my opinion. Let’s say it passes and eBay’s board refuses or delays, it causes a huge problem for the eBay board, owners will wipe them out.

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  Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported 6 minutes ago

  GameStop is about to make the Final Bid for $EBAY On May 3rd, 2026, $GME made a bid for $eBay: "proposed offer is $125.00 per share, comprising 50% cash and 50% GameStop common stock, with full shareholder election rights as to consideration type and pro-rata allocation." Since making that bid, he has gone on a full media pressure campaign, highlighting the misalignment and inadequacies of the management and board of $eBay. The bid was promptly rejected in the face of a stunning 2.5 billion share auth proposal at the July 7th meeting, seemingly to get the $eBay deal done, though the two have not been explicitly linked. Last we heard from @ryancohen was that he is taking the deal directly to shareholders. So what does that mean? —————— WHY EBAY? Let's first look at the target: $eBay. $eBay has around ~90% institutional ownership. Now, in the face of an activist takeover and a hostile bid, what does that mean exactly? First, it means the shareholders of eBay are heavily organized and concentrated. The bidder does not have to convince a million people separately. He just has to convince a few holders of the stock. Second, institutions have a hard mandate. They are fiduciaries of capital, not shareholders convinced for a multitude of reasons. There is only one reason they care about: does it make sense financially? A fiduciary, by law, has to evaluate the offer against standalone value. If the premium is real and the financing is committed, they tender. Not because they want to. Because they have to. For a potential acquisition target, that is not a defense. That is a STRONG vulnerability. And for a hostile bidder, that is everything. —————— MOVE 1: THE REJECTION You can't launch a hostile tender without first making a friendly offer the board refuses. The rejection is the legal prerequisite. It establishes that the board won't negotiate, which justifies going around them. But it matters HOW they reject. If they say "$125 is too low": you're negotiating price before you've started. If they say "not credible": they've rejected the financing, NOT the number. And look at what eBay actually said: "neither credible nor attractive." They left $125 completely unchallenged. Cohen didn't just get rejected. He got rejected perfectly. Price locked. Board on record fighting the wrong battle. Hostile lane open. The dismissible bid was designed, not fumbled. He could have shown up May 3 with committed financing. The board would have had to engage. Price negotiation starts at $125 but eventually he pays more, and it's open to negotiation. Instead, he showed up with a highly confident letter the board COULD dismiss and they dismissed it on financing, not price. Now, when the financing firms up, their only stated objection disappears, and they've already conceded $125 by never contesting it. Meanwhile, he amassed 2,480,467 shares, funded with cash. The 39M-share conversion untouched. Move 1 is complete. —————— COHEN EXPLICITLY TOLD YOU MOVE 2 IS COMING The public press run Ryan Cohen did was very interesting for a multitude of reasons. First, he had to keep his cool under pressure. The viral CNBC clips show just how difficult that is. Second, the interviews themselves are hard to curate to ensure no critical information leaks out. And in that, he explcitly states his next move. Anthony Pompliano Interview: "It's going to come down to the owners of the business and who they believe are the best fiduciaries of their capital." The owners decide. Not the board. That's the tender described in one sentence. "If it was all stock, GameStop shareholders would own 20% of the business. eBay would own 80% of the earnings." He described the all-stock version. Framed it as the bad outcome for his own shareholders. Then went silent on the alternative. Barron's Interview: "The board and the management team cannot run and hide forever." A board hides behind a rejection letter. You can't hide from a tender: it goes directly to your shareholders. "Ultimately this will be resolved by shareholders." He says it twice. Not the board. Shareholders. "I'm not receiving risk-free compensation and selling stock without putting money on the line." That's the pitch to eBay's institutions, pre-loaded into the public record. When the tender arrives: your management takes risk-free comp and sells stock. I take zero salary and get paid only if the combined company hits hurdles. Who should run your asset? "Private equity is really good at raising money and charging management fees. I'm an operator." He's killing the white-knight defense before the board even tries it. When they look for an alternative buyer, PE is the obvious candidate, but Cohen has already framed them as fee-extractors. That defense is pre-neutralized. Every answer points at the same mechanism: a tender offer, direct to shareholders, where the owners decide. SO WHERE IS IT? —————— THE AGM WAS THE LAST PIECE OF INTEL The highly watched $ebay AGM came and went, and many GameStop shareholders were dissappointed. Proposal 4 on the slate specifically was the one to watch: a proposal to lower the special-meeting threshold to 10%. Ultimately, all motions passed in favour of ebay's board and the proposal was rejected. However, let's take a look at the context. This is not the first time this proposal has been brought forward, and every time it has failed. What was the difference this time? This time, the board hired Innisfree, a professional adversarial proxy defense entity. They ran two weeks of direct outreach.  On the other side, @ryancohen amassed close to a 10% position, not going above, but buying direct shares as well.  So what were the results? 2026: 42.8% in favour.  Compare that to 2025: 49% in favour.  So what does that mean in the context of the situation? For a company that is held 90% by institutions, 43% voted IN FAVOUR OF A HOSTILE BIDDER BEING ABLE TO CALL A SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING. Nearly HALF the register defied the board's recommendation DURING AN ACTIVE HOSTILE BID, AFTER the board spent weeks fighting it with a professional proxy solicitor. The institutions who did vote with the board on Proposal 4 didn't do it because they love eBay management. They did it because an uncommitted activist at 9% isn't a strong enough reason to hand him structural tools. Change "uncommitted activist" to "fully funded premium tender" and fiduciary duty makes the decision for them. 42.7% defied the board on a hypothetical. The question is: What happens when the offer is real and sitting in their account? The AGM was never the battlefront for $GME, just the last piece of data he needed before Move 2. Now he has it. —————— THE TENDER A tender doesn't need the board's permission. Doesn't need a merger vote. Doesn't need a special meeting. Doesn't need Proposal 4. It goes directly to the owners. Every shareholder individually decides. The board can recommend against it, but they can't stop it from reaching their shareholders. A fund manager holding eBay at ~$100 receives a funded offer at $125. The math: take certain cash at a 25–46% premium, or hold under a board whose only defense just collapsed. "I believed in eBay management" is a career-ending sentence when the alternative was guaranteed money. The board's one tool is a poison pill. A pill blocks the tender from closing, but not from staying open. Not from the arbs flooding the register. Not from the story running. And a pill turns it into a proxy war. eBay is declassified. Majority-vote. Every director stands annually. "Replace the directors blocking your $125" is a short fight when arbs hold the register and the board's own stated objection no longer exists. Cohen said it: "cannot run and hide forever." A pill buys time but it doesn't win. —————— THE WINDOW Since the last 425, Cohen has gone quiet. The longest gap of the campaign: straight through eBay's AGM and out the other side. Let's look at the calendar a bit and try to surmise what he is planning. July 7: GameStop's annual meeting. Two proposals matter, and they are not the same vote. The authorized-share increase of 2.5 billion is close to a formality. The June 8 proxy supplement spelled it out: simple majority of votes cast, and NYSE deems it routine, so brokers vote uninstructed shares *for* it. That one passes. Cohen knows it passes and that's what the proxy supplement was to clarify. The CEO performance award is the hard one. It was pitched to be decided by unaffiliated holders which is a higher bar than a plain majority.  But here's what the supplement also said: the share authorization is *not* a condition of the pay award. The two are decoupled. And the authorization was never explicitly tied to the eBay deal to begin with. So read it straight. Cohen does not need the July 7 vote to move on eBay. He already has the shares and the structure. What he needs is the other half: committed financing locked *before* he reveals a direct offer to a base that's ~90% institutional. Institutions don't tender on a "highly confident" letter. They tender on certain cash. And then there's Teddy. The site Cohen built for his father has been password-gated since June 1. During this entire saga, this has never ocurred. This Sunday is Father's Day. What I'm watching for: Teddy goes live on Father's Day, Sunday June 21 and the formal offer hits the tape the next morning, Monday June 22. —————— TL;DR: This was always two moves. Move 1: present a dismissible bid. Let the board reject it on financing. Lock the price. Accumulate cheap. Map the register. Move 2: fix the financing. Take the same $125 directly to the owners of a 90% institutional company, where fiduciary duty makes tendering a forced move. Move 1 is done. The board rejected on financing, not price. The toehold is built. The AGM data is in hand. "The board cannot run and hide forever."

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  Scott Sleepy (@scott_sleepy) reported 6 minutes ago

  Running the numbers with Grok, GameStop is over-leveraged buying eBay. Hear me out - if they acquired Chewy now, this gets them the free cash flow needed to support that loan while Ryan turns around eBay. Structured correctly, this allows them to hit the $32 Warrant strike price. Chewy is in an extremely advantageous position for this right now. Their stock price is a steal, they are largely done with the major CapEx for growing their distribution centers (which can be further leveraged in NewCo), and have strong and growing Free Cash Flow. The price is right. The cash flow supports the loan. Ryan can focus on eBay when he gets it. And he can manage/improve Chewy in his sleep. CRITICALLY - $GME will be volatile after an acquisition like this, and Ryan can issue an ATM into a squeeze. The big squeeze comes later. A small one in the interim can, with an ATM, basically let Ryan buy Chewy for free.

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  bad robot ventures (@foxenflask) reported 10 minutes ago

  From 2019 onwards, $EBAY has a pretty impressive rap sheet: - 2019: Execs ordered a stalking campaign against blogger couple the Steiners. Sent live bugs, a pig mask, and a funeral wreath to their home. GPS tracked their car. CEO Wenig ("take her down") walked with $57M severance. Never charged. - 2022: 7 employees convicted. Ringleader Jim Baugh sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. - 2023: DOJ sues eBay for selling 343K emissions defeat devices and illegal pesticides. Potential $1.9B exposure. - 2024: eBay pays $3M criminal fine (statutory max) to DOJ for the stalking. Same month, pays $59M for facilitating illegal pill press sales. - 2026: Steiner civil suit ($466M punitive ask) settled, then collapsed. Trial set for Jan 2027. Multiple DOJ actions. 7 convictions. Billions in exposure. A decade of self-inflicted chaos. Utter waste of shareholder capital, while the business has failed to grow and the margins + stockholders’ equity is depleting by the quarter. Is this board and CEO really the best to run this iconic American brand?

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  Eteeks (@eteekstweets) reported 10 minutes ago

  @EFEnoticias Meanwhile I tried to buy Nike England x Palace Jersey and bots bought all and put them on eBay for 5x. But if I buy a counterfeit I'm the problem

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  Paul (@pavlai12) reported 11 minutes ago

  @TCGPokePlug @eBay They added the sales tax to the order total and then subtracted it. That has no impact to you. Your fees were $419. Your sale must have been around $2900 and you received almost $2500. So, what’s the issue?

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  R1Stephanie (@R1Stephanie) reported 14 minutes ago

  @bigern_ern @Rivian I got this fob when we bought Mevie so I don't know how much. I bet you can buy off ebay. I can't really get into details but we discovered we got a fob for another truck. We tried to pair what we got with Mevie and....she's....got more parts than stock so the mechanic couldn't pair it yet. This is the type at the shop that enjoys difficult issues and even he looked like he got finished with the SATs after trying to figure what was there. So... I'm deep in another rabbit hole and like the mechanic thoroughly am enjoying the unicorn.

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  Bid Sniper for eBay (@Myibidder) reported 15 minutes ago

  Most issues with eBay purchases can be resolved by contacting the seller via eBay messages, this is not the end of the world #MyibidderTips

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  Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ItsaMeCooper @beckettcollect There’s an operation out of China right now that duplicates the slab cases and finds cert numbers for high end cards, and puts a low quality version in their fake slab to sell on eBay. If you look up the cert it seems valid. A company I’m working with is actually working on a product to solve this issue. What will matter most is if the Centering on the cert image was the same. If that’s the case there is also a potential for it to have been a **** up rather than a downright fraud. Beckett has moved to using computer vision for centering checks recently, and as someone who has built his own home pre-grading rig, I’ll note that computer vision has a hard time with metallic edge looking cards, but especially cards where the front image layer (creature and UI) overlaps the border like this card does with its evolution information on the upper left and right of the card. That would still be no excuse and it should be reviewed carefully as the lack of image on the grading report is sus. But, mistakes, external fraud, or single rogue employee are all more likely than large sinister operation.

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  Bare Beauty Bodypainting 🖖🌹 (@Barebeautybody) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TCGPokePlug @eBay Whatnot is the closest site to take down eBay, but sadly it's filled with scammers, and that turns off buyers. Until we get a legitimate alternative eBay and their fees, and their shipping scams, and their counterfeit items will unfortunately have to suffice.

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  Antid (@antisadh) reported 19 minutes ago

  ONE USED RTX 3090 FROM A MINING FARM LIKE THIS REPLACED A $440/MONTH OPENAI BILL FOR $11 IN ELECTRICITY mining farms across texas and oregon are quietly winding down after the kaspa drop, racks of used RTX 3090s flooding ebay at $500 a card, the same hardware that mined crypto in 2021 now runs local AI tyler grabbed one off a farm liquidation sale in austin last sunday, 24GB of VRAM, EVGA founders edition, plugged it into his desktop tower the same night the card runs alibaba's qwen 3.6 27B at 40 tokens per second, the model scores 84.1 on vision benchmarks against claude 4.5 opus at 77, both numbers public and verifiable he was paying $440 a month across claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini and cursor, cancelled all four the same week, every workload now runs through ollama with one environment variable change total ongoing cost $8 a month in electricity, the card pays for itself in 3.5 months, the rest of the mining farm gets sold to the next 200 developers chasing the same math the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes

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  shawn (@Shawncnda) reported 20 minutes ago

  @WaterPlantGuy @CardPurchaser Give it another week. eBay tracking has went back to being jacked up this week. I’ve got issues with cards coming in and going out. Ask for a few more days. Sadly I’ve had cards take weeks to get to me after being marked as delivered

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  XShadesX (@TheRealXShadesX) reported 30 minutes ago

  @CanonCsa @zebular0 True. Issue I have with that for starters is not a lot of people like GameStop. GameStops reputation is still ****. People will still go to eBay over GameStop marketplace.

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  🎒 پیمان رزاقی (@peymanr_farsi) reported 33 minutes ago

  No idiot this has no ramifications back home It just shows deep down the monarchist animals are hypocrites that would take the Jersey and probably will attempt to sell it on ebay

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  bollockstothis (@laurast51362949) reported 33 minutes ago

  @marklindores @CotswoldLadyB @thewhitecompany People who know what a hassle it is when things arrive broken. You do it with eBay and vinted as well because people send empty boxes or wrong items.

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  Roaring Kitty Token 💥🍻 (@RoaringKitty_22) reported 33 minutes ago

  🚨 Breaking News : eBay Proposal 4 May Have Passed eBay's annual shareholder meeting is over, and reports are circulating that Proposal 4 received enough votes to pass. If confirmed, shareholders would only need to own 10% of eBay to call a special shareholder meeting, down from the current 20% requirement. Why does that matter? GameStop reportedly owns nearly 10% of eBay. That could give Ryan Cohen and GameStop a way to bring their acquisition ideas directly to eBay shareholders through a special meeting. ⏰ Official voting results have not been released yet. eBay has said the results could be announced as soon as tomorrow. $GME $EBAY

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  LEWIS MELCHER (@cardshopmd) reported 34 minutes ago

  I swear I have had it with eBay, I have a ton of items to list and the bulk uploader is not working. I I do not have the time to list 800+ Soccer items 1x1 @eBay get your **** together

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  Carry On Tittering (@carryontitterin) reported 35 minutes ago

  @TerwitTwoo They typically come down to around £35 on eBay and Amazon a few months later. 👍

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  Jeff (@thelostjeff) reported 35 minutes ago

  @RNGingy Ebay, tcgplayer online. If you sell individually you will get more, but its more trouble.

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  Teddy.com (@teddy__com) reported 40 minutes ago

  @sneedweb I don’t understand why you’re still posting about eBay. The stock is down 20% since the offer. He doesn’t have anywhere near the cash or equity to finance this deal. The most cash he could get from the combined cashflow is like $7-8b, max. You’re watching this like it’s a damn tennis match. If eBay agreed today, he couldn’t do it, unless they gave him half the company. It’s a bluff, buddy. Stop talking about it. It’s not happening.

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  Duane the Bathtub (@BOHICAGOOGLEIT) reported 41 minutes ago

  @iqrafatma1278 Funny, If They Are 2026 Quarters... The Roll is Worth $25.00. If, The Roll is The Error Roll, it's worth $100.00 or More on eBay. Check it Out.

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  ItsPathy (@ItsPathy_) reported 44 minutes ago

  @eBay @eBayAU Hi! Having issues with a package sent from US > AU. I have: - Talked to a helpful support agent - Logged two cases that gave the same copy/paste 'solution' - Sent multiple follow up emails - No closer to resolution Please reach out to chat and sort out. Cheers!

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  Frank Schneider (@ballparfrank) reported 44 minutes ago

  @WaterPlantGuy @CardPurchaser Once it shows delivered it not your problem. Ebay will back you.

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  Bobblehead’s Cards & Co. (@BobbleheadCards) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Nesterp99 Correct - grading via eBay is still available, albeit with slow turnaround times. PSA mentioned this is a separate grading team, so not effected by the standard backlog.

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  Verlaxify (@Verlaxify) reported 47 minutes ago

  I also forgot to include the mention of a post I made yesterday about people that are scamming their viewers and making people pay money for Sprites and this wasn't directed at Phill and his name wasn't even mentioned in the post either but yet again he assumes everything is about him when it's not. I don't watch his streams, I don't look at his Twitter account at all except for today obviously when people make me aware of a post made about me and again pretty much this entire week so far I've been helping work on my house. The post that I made about the Sprite issues too was also based off of stuff I've seen throughout last week and this week including where people are selling Sprites on Ebay and there have been people on YouTube streams begging people for SUBS or Money in exchange to them getting Sprites in return.

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  John (@jsoupzzz24) reported 48 minutes ago

  @dabfordale I also see another problem. Grown adults seeking free autographs to flip on eBay. Wish it was buy a shirt or hat instead of diecast. Or $25 donation to drivers charity.

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  Bier Collectibles TCG (@bierc_tcg) reported 55 minutes ago

  It seems my Ebay shops arent linked properly on my linktree. I will fix this today, im just finishing an overnight shift. Apologies for this error

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  SgtSlaughter97 - Follow on Kick (@slither198) reported 59 minutes ago

  @_runescimitar Happens when you move the camera too fast, I had to fix that at points on ebay.

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  green 💚🌈 (@creepsandcrawls) reported 1 hour ago

  @TCGPokePlug @eBay I understand the market but anyone contributing to rediculous prices of cards/slabs or indirectly creating no MSRP is contributing to the problem of the hobby