{"id":7488,"date":"2026-05-04T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/gamestop-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-55-5-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:04:28","slug":"gamestop-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-55-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/gamestop-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-55-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Announces Shocking Buyout Offer For eBay, Priced At $55.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The latest chapter in video game retailer GameStop&#8217;s tumultuous story is unfolding, as the company has announced plans to make a deal to buy eBay for $55.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop said in a news release that it submitted a &#8220;non-binding proposal&#8221; to buy 100% of eBay at $125 per share in cash and stock, at 50% each. This would be about a 20% premium over where eBay&#8217;s stock was trading on Friday and a 46% premium to eBay&#8217;s closing price on February 4 this year. That was the day that GameStop started buying eBay stock. Today, it owns about 5% of eBay&#8217;s outstanding stock.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal, &#8220;There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest chapter in video game retailer GameStop&#8217;s tumultuous story is unfolding, as the company has announced plans to make a deal to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop said in a news release that it submitted a &#8220;non-binding proposal&#8221; to buy 100% of eBay at $125 per share in cash and stock, at 50%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4053,4184,7344,1873,2870,5069,7345,5404],"class_list":{"0":"post-7488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-announces","9":"tag-billion","10":"tag-buyout","11":"tag-ebay","12":"tag-gamestop","13":"tag-offer","14":"tag-priced","15":"tag-shocking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}