Recently found out the GameStop in the Dover mall shut down, this year. I’d frequented it when it was still Electronics Boutique. Last time I visited it, it was a sad and sparse clearing-house for Funko Pops, and I didn’t even make a complete loop of the store before noping out. Long gone were the days of naked Game Boy games on a register carousel, let alone 3DFX hardware, or shareware CD-ROMs for a couple bucks. I think the last thing I bought for myself in a GameStop was a copy of Nemesis in Albany circa 2007.
In fairness - they’ve leveled off, since that disastrous thread from three years ago. Fuck knows why.
The problem is none of that matters. That’s not the core of the GME stuff.
Simply put, the guy DFV who bought in when GameStop was like 5 bucks a share and pointed this out to everyone double down his purchase after GME exploded the first time.
Meaning the whole reason this started, from the guy who started it, hasn’t happened. And he still seems to believe it will.
Regardless of what the company does. That guy was right the first time and I don’t think it was sheer dumb luck.
Sure I’ll put my cult hat ontop of my tinfoil one.
Ryan Cohen is a capitalist with his own self interest. He has it out for Amazon and believes they’re owning a massive section of business and doing it poorly so it’s silly nobody is taking their lunch over and over again. He did it once with chewy, kind of. He had to build that one from the ground up but it’s okay.
He sees GameStop and eBay as powerful names that he’s gonna try to steal the online gaming market obviously. But he notices the economy is getting bad, new consoles aren’t likely, people probably won’t be building as many PCs in the next few years. It’ll likely be a lot of second hand trading, he wants to create that space and really hammer on the trade in vibe GameStop had for a while. I think he’s going to abandon the brick and mortar stores as they are and become more hobby shop/pick up your online purchase here.
It’s a pretty good idea, the line goes up, he has a history of exactly that plan and he’s built a fake internet personality to develop a fanboy cult essentially.
I think if this eBay thing happens things will probably be even more green.
Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.
Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”
For fun while walking by, my wife and I went into one last year. There was a small section of games. 80% of the store was those Funko dolls and “nerd” memorabilia to put on a shelf or desk.
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
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.
I mean they MAY have cash on hand but looking at revenue is different. I may have 100k in the bank but if I’m unemployed and have no income that won’t last long. They need a source of income and with most game purchases going online that won’t work so they need something else.
Ebay is probably too big of a target for them though…
Really? Not just stock price goes up but actual profit? I know they went into funko pops and such but surprised that can cover the cost of their stores and land…
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Recently found out the GameStop in the Dover mall shut down, this year. I’d frequented it when it was still Electronics Boutique. Last time I visited it, it was a sad and sparse clearing-house for Funko Pops, and I didn’t even make a complete loop of the store before noping out. Long gone were the days of naked Game Boy games on a register carousel, let alone 3DFX hardware, or shareware CD-ROMs for a couple bucks. I think the last thing I bought for myself in a GameStop was a copy of Nemesis in Albany circa 2007.
In fairness - they’ve leveled off, since that disastrous thread from three years ago. Fuck knows why.
The problem is none of that matters. That’s not the core of the GME stuff.
Simply put, the guy DFV who bought in when GameStop was like 5 bucks a share and pointed this out to everyone double down his purchase after GME exploded the first time.
Meaning the whole reason this started, from the guy who started it, hasn’t happened. And he still seems to believe it will.
Regardless of what the company does. That guy was right the first time and I don’t think it was sheer dumb luck.
Cult.
Sure I’ll put my cult hat ontop of my tinfoil one.
Ryan Cohen is a capitalist with his own self interest. He has it out for Amazon and believes they’re owning a massive section of business and doing it poorly so it’s silly nobody is taking their lunch over and over again. He did it once with chewy, kind of. He had to build that one from the ground up but it’s okay.
He sees GameStop and eBay as powerful names that he’s gonna try to steal the online gaming market obviously. But he notices the economy is getting bad, new consoles aren’t likely, people probably won’t be building as many PCs in the next few years. It’ll likely be a lot of second hand trading, he wants to create that space and really hammer on the trade in vibe GameStop had for a while. I think he’s going to abandon the brick and mortar stores as they are and become more hobby shop/pick up your online purchase here.
It’s a pretty good idea, the line goes up, he has a history of exactly that plan and he’s built a fake internet personality to develop a fanboy cult essentially.
I think if this eBay thing happens things will probably be even more green.
Cohen is trying to meet the requirements and unlock his 30 billion bonus for growing the company by buying a bigger one.
seems like hes trying to pull a musk, but he would need to have funding from other investors to do that.
Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.
Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”
For fun while walking by, my wife and I went into one last year. There was a small section of games. 80% of the store was those Funko dolls and “nerd” memorabilia to put on a shelf or desk.
Meanwhile our local Game Stop is being turned into a Wing Stop.
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
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.
Are they struggling? Last I checked they had like a full literal billion in cash on hand.
For a company the size of GameStop, I feel that $1B isn’t as much as it sounds like.
You would be surprised…
More than Spirit had.
Bad dum tss
They’re sitting on $9bil in cash and securities, $2bil of that was made last year alone. They’re hardly struggling
I mean they MAY have cash on hand but looking at revenue is different. I may have 100k in the bank but if I’m unemployed and have no income that won’t last long. They need a source of income and with most game purchases going online that won’t work so they need something else.
Ebay is probably too big of a target for them though…
They’ve posted several back to back profitable quarters if I’m not mistaken.
Really? Not just stock price goes up but actual profit? I know they went into funko pops and such but surprised that can cover the cost of their stores and land…
Unless I’m reading this chart wrong, yeah:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GME/gamestop/eps-earnings-per-share-diluted
Interesting, seems to be very volitile but still looks overall profitable. I’m surprised, thanks for the information.
Better be sure the check clears.