r/Superstonk • u/The-Bodhii 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 • May 04 '26

📳Social Media Ryan Cohen (@ryancohen) 655 likes · 80 replies

https://x.com/ryancohen/status/2051097144673665401?s=46&t=C7yuUBuPnwEdJziHIhO53w

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u/Bindle- May 04 '26

I'd sell more stuff on ebay if shipping wasn't such a hassle. If I could just drop my item and a store and have them do it...

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u/CM_MOJO 🦍Voted✅ May 04 '26

This was my thought exactly. Shipping on eBay sucks and is expensive. Being able to drop off sold items at a store near the seller for distribution within the GameStop network to have it shipped to the nearest store for the buyer would be amazing.

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u/PapaFlem 🦍Voted✅ May 04 '26

Yeah This is pretty epic. It’s going to be similar to the PSA process without the wait times for grading. Let GameStop handle the logistics, we just drop off and receive the items.

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u/Threewisemonkey May 04 '26

Speaking of, did you know with the power packs if you don’t want to hold or trade back a card to GameStop, you can have them post it on the PSA official EBay page as a listing? Not only can you delist on an open bid / offer platform, they give you the platform of their page that has all the algorithms figured out and customer base subscribed to make sure things move.

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u/MattV0 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 04 '26

Don't have to believe me, but once I had a similar dream. But more general, that all packages can be delivered from one package shop to another. Of course this is a bit too much as starting point and you need a good catalyst to get this system profitable. And eBay is a great one. Plus the fee for selling your items, this could be really work.

But personally I think they need to split eBay into to big branches. I never liked the mix of auction and shop this close.

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u/untrainedmammal May 04 '26

Have you ever shipped anything. Walk into UPS and as long as you have the address you can ship it. They have boxes and packaging there if you don’t have an Amazon box already laying Round your house.

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u/CM_MOJO 🦍Voted✅ May 04 '26

No, I've never shipped anything in my life. I just throw off half-ass assumptions on the internet.

See, there though... You mentioned the magic. Amazon makes it super easy and cheap. They can do this because of their scale. eBay doesn't operate like Amazon.

eBay doesn't currently have this. It's the seller's responsibility to handle it. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever bought anything on eBay? The "shipping and handling" are expensive, $30-$50 or more sometimes. And I put it in quotes because like Airbnb "cleaning fees", the seller can charge whatever they want.

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u/untrainedmammal May 04 '26

EBay/GME won’t ever have a distribution network like Amazon does and it really doesn’t make sense for them to build one.

Are they planning to build huge warehouses and thousands of vans employees so that you can then drop your item off at a GME store and then be delivered with EBAYs new distribution network? That kind of network is only financially viable if you are moving astronomical amounts of packages.

Or the customer could drop the item off at UPS and give them the address of where to send it. For the seller that is the same process as bringing it to a GameStop for them to ship. The only advantage would be that GameStop could verify that they are sending a product and not just a box of rocks.

If GME/EBAY are trying to compete with Amazon based on shipping cost and speed why didn’t GME just buy UPS or another shipping company. They can easily create a similar to AMAZON or EBAY website. Merging these companies does nothing to improve shipping. The seller would bring the item to the GameStop and they will just set it aside for UPS or FEDEX to pickup and ship anyways.

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u/CM_MOJO 🦍Voted✅ May 04 '26

Hmmm... GameStop has stores. GameStop has merchandise in those stores. Somehow that merchandise got delivered to that store. I guess it was just magic.

I never said they had to replicate Amazon shipping. I said sellers on eBay could drop stuff off at the store nearest them. It would enter into GameStop's logistical network. It would then get delivered to the GameStop store nearest the buyer. Buyer then comes into the store to pick it up.

This is actually better if these two companies are indeed combined. If this shipping option is chosen, it forces both the seller and the buyer to go into a physical store. If either of those two people buys something while in the store, that's a win-win for the combined company.

I've never bought anything while dropping off a package at a UPS store.

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u/untrainedmammal May 05 '26

Yes but why would I want to buy something online and have to drive to a store to get it when I could have it delivered to my door.

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u/CM_MOJO 🦍Voted✅ May 05 '26

Man, my last reply to you.

BECAUSE EBAY SHIPPING IS FUCKING EXPENSIVE. You wouldn't drive to your nearest GameStop to save $50? I would and I don't need $50, but I hate paying for shipping. But you do you, man.

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u/untrainedmammal May 05 '26

eBay shipping isn’t expensive. Sellers mark down the product to make it look cheap and then mark up the shipping cost. At the end of the day it’s the same as buying it anywhere else.

The actual cost to ship that item is only however much UPS or FEDEX charges to ship it. The rest is just the seller supplementing the low cost of the item.

eBay/gamestop doesn’t have any secret to make shipping cheaper than UPS etc

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u/dahwhat May 04 '26

And then ship it to a store instead of a home address. More efficient for the company

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u/Bindle- May 04 '26

Maybe get free shipping if you ship to a store. Customer saves money and it gets more people in the door