That sneaker company that pivoted to data centers set the 'weird' bar pretty high.
GameStop has physical stores so could be a place to send, collect from or even verify high value eBay items.
That sneaker company that pivoted to data centers set the 'weird' bar pretty high.
GameStop has physical stores so could be a place to send, collect from or even verify high value eBay items.
> ...sneaker company that pivoted to data centers set the 'weird' bar pretty high...
"Weird" is the wrong word for Allbirds. "Fraud" is far more fitting. They obviously have no intention running an AI-datacenter business and are doing it for the stock-price rush. A small number of people will be laughing all the way to the bank, and everyone will forget Allbirds in short order.
Ebay has a history of being legit, though they have had a long list of uncanny acquisitions themselves (including Skype, which they later sold for a stiff loss). It's a pity they couldn't just execute on their core business and are now being acquired themselves by an entity using sketchy financial shenanigans.
Who's going to stop a few rich people with a pile of money and a stated intent of doing something they have no intention of doing? No one, I guess. I mean, there's plenty of examples. Supermicro is still listed on NASDAQ even though one of their founders was caught smuggling export-controlled GPU's in Supermicro servers to the tune of 2.5 billion dollars a couple months ago.
eBay currently allows (or at least tolerates) sales of items not in the possession of the seller and are effectively lottery tickets. Lotteries are illegal in my state (NV) but eBay does not restrict me from bidding. That's low hanging fruit right there.
Based on my own experience with GameStop, that will convince me to stop using eBay completely.
I'd be sad because eBay works great (even if their software is old and would need a complete rewrite).
Why does it need a rewrite if it works great?
Because it works great as a platform, and because I've been using it for 20 years.
But for a new user, it looks completely messy, with pages that are vastly different from each other and many sections that look exactly as they were in the early 2000's.
EBay is running a platform (very successfully) not a pawnshop.