Can GameStop Really Buy eBay? The $56B Finale | Battle for eBay Pt 4

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GameStop bid $56 billion for eBay. eBay's board said no and won't even meet — so Ryan Cohen is going around them, straight to shareholders. The finale lays out both sides. The bull case: $2B in cost cuts, the collectibles playbook, a 46% premium from the man who built Chewy and revived GameStop. The bear case: a minnow swallowing a whale, half the offer in GameStop's own stock, the AOL–Time Warner ghost, and index-fund giants like Vanguard and BlackRock who rarely back a hostile bid. The betting markets give it less than one in four. The deal is live and unresolved. You decide. That's the series — Parts 1–4. Follow for the next story. 🧅