• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Oh no, no, no. How could they even be struggling? They ignore all of their customers and try to rip them off repeatedly. That’s just good business, brick & mortar style. /s

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      20 hours ago

      I’ll never forget my brother heading to GameStop to grab me a copy of Halo 3 for like $15. Dude in front of him in line was trading in a steel book edition. Got offered like $4 and thankfully my brother is an extrovert and went “I’ll give ya $20” which is what I’d sent him with.

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      20 hours ago

      Are they struggling? Last I checked they had like a full literal billion in cash on hand.

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        They’re doing alright with positive cash flow. They have $9B cash on hand because of some long 0% interest convertible bonds they sold to probably an institution on Wall Street. They’re going the Carl Icahn strategy, and I thought they said they were going to do a “multiplie Berkshire” so I guess I’d be surprised if eBay were the only M&A they are considering.

        FWIW, Michael J Burry from that “the big short” movie bought GameStop a few times recently and supports the “Warren-Icahn multi-Berkshire” plan they have.

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        19 hours ago

        For a company the size of GameStop, I feel that $1B isn’t as much as it sounds like.