{"id":77208,"date":"2026-05-03T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77208"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:36:59","slug":"gamestop-ceo-announces-shocking-buyout-offer-for-ebay-priced-at-56-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77208","title":{"rendered":"GameStop CEO Announces Shocking Buyout Offer For eBay, Priced At $56 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest chapter in video game retailer GameStop&#8217;s tumultuous story is unfolding, as the company has announced plans to buy eBay for $56 billion.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ryan Cohen told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/deals\/gamestop-is-offering-to-buy-ebay-for-56-billion-ceo-ryan-cohen-says-fd330f5a?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1\">The Wall Street Journal <\/a>that he plans to offer $125 per share in cash and stock to buy eBay, and that&#8217;s about a 20% premium over where eBay&#8217;s shares closed on Friday. &#8220;There is nobody who is more qualified, based on my experience, to run the eBay business,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;eBay should be worth&#8211;and will be worth&#8211;a lot more money. I&#8217;m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop, as a company, has a market cap of around $12 billion, compared to eBay&#8217;s $46 billion. Cohen said he has $20 billion in debt financing from TD Bank to help get the deal done for eBay. There is no word on how eBay is feeling about selling itself, and it&#8217;s possible no deal materializes.<\/p>\n<p>This shocking news first came to light on Friday, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/deals\/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-1678e6de\">WSJ reported<\/a> that Cohen was eyeing a deal for eBay&#8211;this report helped drive up the prices of eBay and GameStop shares after the market had closed for the week. The share prices for both companies rose<\/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 buy eBay for $56 billion. CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal that he plans to offer $125 per share in cash and stock to buy eBay, and that&#8217;s about a 20% premium over where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77211,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77208\/revisions\/77211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}