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  The New Mocha Joe (@TheNewMochaJoe) reported 3 minutes ago

  @CGasparino Must be getting the eBay deal. The market seems to be indicating that with GME down and eBay up.

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  Sneaky (@Sneakyone75) reported 6 minutes ago

  Slow *** eBay app made me lose an auction nice

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  mathieu malecot (@tragicslip) reported 8 minutes ago

  @treesonstumps @alt_w_v_g You can do ok as a buyer on ebay. It's sellers that have a problem, and slowly this bleeds quality buyers. Only the diligent and the scammers are good at using ebay's tools to shop smart.

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  🇺🇸 RepentedLeftist🇺🇸 (@Darkdeedfiles) reported 11 minutes ago

  Ryan Cohen publicly calling eBay's management losers while sitting on a 5% stake is not a random outburst. That's how activist investors announce they're about to make someone's life difficult. eBay has been coasting on a brand that peaked in 2005 while Amazon and every vertical marketplace ate their lunch for two decades. Cohen isn't wrong about the execution. Whether he's the guy to fix it is a different question.

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  Sandman Slabs (@SandmanBen) reported 12 minutes ago

  Anyone have an issue where your eBay listing is getting 0 views, but an exact same listing from someone else has tons of views and watchers? Mine is showing 0 viewers and been up for over 24 hours. Doesn’t even show in the search. @CardPurchaser

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 13 minutes ago

  You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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  Alex Trigger (@AlexTrigger10) reported 14 minutes ago

  @userofintellect I'm pretty sure Cohen still plans to buy Ebay - he looked quite determined. BUT I also had a suspicion that was his secondary objective, the first being to have short make a mistake. And it looks like they made that mistake on Monday. $56 bn (!!!) market cap 'glitch' on BRK-B...

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  Nicole (@nicolew76538921) reported 19 minutes ago

  @heydomoshi I think shorts will really drive down GME and raise eBay, making him unable to afford it

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  Leo (@Leo_R_UK) reported 19 minutes ago

  @KaiXCreator 16gb - 24gb range. You don’t need an expensive machine to code. Install your coding assistant on a remote server. Have all your skills/tools/assets remote. This server shouldn’t be expensive either. Look on eBay, cheap HP i5 / i7 32gb (less that £150) You don’t need a powerful machine to use terminal!

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  Weapon💫 (@rWeapon_) reported 23 minutes ago

  @JunkWaxJblack @CardPurchaser Happened a couple times to me, eBay covers the cost of the item if less than $20. just don’t refund the buyer right away.. eBay will issue the refund then you can request payment via the insurance they offer

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  Phil Gitman (@gitman_phil) reported 25 minutes ago

  @terraformedmind @bostong41476161 @ryancohen Has he tanked every interview he’s done? The stock has been going down every day since the eBay offer dropped

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  The New Mocha Joe (@TheNewMochaJoe) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @ryancohen Ok, Ryan, whats plan B. Do you have another idea? Lets face it, eBay rejected the offer. Cohen says he'll fight. That fight takes 12-18 months minimum through a proxy process ... filing, campaigning to institutions, waiting for an annual meeting, winning votes, then renegotiating. Meanwhile the core GameStop business keeps shrinking. Revenue down 44% over 4 years. And if the deal eventually happens? Merger arb traders will short GME down to improve their exchange ratio. Existing shareholders get diluted. The $9B is real. Cohen's track record is real. But this is not a short-term trade and it never was. If you're holding... know what you're holding. A long-term bet on one person's capital allocation ability over 2-3 years with real execution risk.

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  OtakuBubba 🇺🇸 (@OtakuBubba) reported 29 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g Just my 2 Cents, but a big problem plaguing eBay right now is sellers who drop ship items from Amazon. Any seller that does this, I give them a neutral review. At one time, I went out of my way NOT to buy from Amazon, and it pi$$ed me off!

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  Jason (@btc8500) reported 29 minutes ago

  @eBay_UK @eBay Why, I’ve shown you the issue with eBay. You send proof to the correct department and sort it out. My part is done

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  mikekevell84 (@mikekevell84) reported 31 minutes ago

  @yhessagonzales @PhantomBlack699 @eBay Ebay shareholders are the only ones to make money in the last month. Their stock is up. Ours is down.