Conversation with Ryan Cohen of GameStop | Selling

m60driver · 2026-05-11T17:42:37.885000Z

I came across an interesting interview of GameStop's Ryan Cohen by an Ebay vlogger who is primarily a seller. Now I don't put much faith in Cohen's bid for Ebay due to the enormous amount of debt that would be incurred. But Cohen does make some interesting points in the interview. It seems that Cohen himself has tried his hand at selling on Ebay and had his account permanently suspended for no clear reason. He found it nearly impossible to contact Ebay. Sound familiar?. Anyhow, after being enormously successful at founding Chewy and competing with Amazon on pet food based upon better customer service, he was appalled at the absence of any meaningful customer service on Ebay. And he is correct in that Ebay has stagnated in development for years and still looks like a late 1990s website. Perhaps Cohen has convinced others that there is far more value in Ebay if someone with flesh in the game were to modernize it and cut the fat from the staff. Anyhow the interview is on the YouTube channel of "Justin Resells" and you can watch and make your own opinions.

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