Engadget: GameStop reportedly trying to purchase eBay, with reports of offer being $56 billion dollars
I’m not going to pretend like I have any modicum of care of what’s really going on with this whole story, except that I think it’s really weird that a general small coffer company like GameStop is in any position to acquire a much larger company like eBay, but I think most of the world has seen stranger things and about as improbable takeovers in history.
But as the subject of this post says, I think eBay has the chance to do the funniest thing ever, and that’s telling GameStop that their $56B offer, has not met the reserve.
It would be satisfying to probably everyone remotely following this story, because I feel like every gamer in the history of existence has probably been fucked over or at least been insultingly low-ball offered by GameStop, and it would probably bring great joy to see eBay, much less any large conglomerate, basically tell GameStop something they’ve been telling their customers for decades.
Seriously though, how the fuck does GameStop have the gall to offer to buy eBay? Their company is valued at like $9-11B, and where the fuck are they getting the extra $45B+ needed for their offer? Store credit??
When the day is over, I really don’t give a fuck what happens with this. I don’t shop at GameStop, and my eBay usage is pretty minimal, beyond impulsive niche purposes; however, I have recently learned about the CIB retro game market, and I’ve come across some clean and potentially lucrative games with boxes in my old belongings, and it would suck if a GameStop-ified eBay comes to fruition and manages to fuck up my potential earning.
All the more reason why I hope eBay tells GameStop to fuck on outta here with their offer.
