Grateful for all the new $GME & $EBAY followers 🙏 For those just finding me - I’m Liz, founder of Value Added Resource, an independent platform covering marketplace news, policy changes, strategy, & industry analysis. I bring 17 years of operational experience working with companies selling on eBay, Amazon, Etsy & other marketplaces, giving me both a seller & industry perspective on how these platforms actually operate behind the scenes. 🕵️‍♀️

eBay users reported listing delays in Seller Hub this week as one seller found a mystery item she says she never listed under her account - yikes. 😬 valueaddedresource.net/ebay-…

eBay extended bidding? No thanks.

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Vinted updated its US shipping Help Center September 25, confirming the variable rates buyers began seeing earlier this week. The new rates may vary based on carrier, package size, distance & order value. 📦

USPS’ Mail Recovery Center (MRC) handles packages that can’t be delivered or returned to senders. Our auditors found that MRC package volume surged as commercial shippers refused to accept returned packages. Read our report to find out why: bit.ly/3VvjxOc #USPS #USPSOIG

"By refusing undeliverable return-to-sender items, which typically come with postage due, e-commerce companies shifted the cost of disposal to the Postal Service. The Postal Service could increase revenue by almost $20 million over the next 13 months if it collected postage due from direct shippers & began assessing a refusal fee." 💸

Vinted & Depop have spent months competing aggressively on US shipping prices, cycling through free & deeply discounted rates to make lower-value secondhand fashion purchases more attractive. 📦 valueaddedresource.net/vinte…

Seller on eBay with made up Company Reference Number. Clearly no checks being done.

The sports and trading card hobby is bigger than it's ever been. Pokémon cards are surging and there have already been more $1 million-plus sales in 2026 than any year prior. I spoke with experts to better understand why. Free to read for @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/7623714…

Decent article on $GME published today on @Forbes. One thing they missed, there is a possibility he can take over $EBAY without any additional immediate capital or share issue, much like how he took over the GameStop board in early 2021 (activist). This path has already been reasonably disclosed to the public markets intentionally in the 425 campaign, along with other optionality they retain. It can come to that soon, but also could be a while (next year). Earlier this year, a different activist shareholder named John Chevedden had a proposal at the eBay annual shareholder meeting to lower the ownership threshold required to call a special meeting (for things like let’s say, removing/replacing the board and other leadership) from 20% to 10%. It failed to pass, but did get 42.9% of the vote (majority required to pass). GameStop at the time did not own any material voting power. Now they own 9.8%. What I’m inferring is even if it takes a while, a vote next year to replace the board with RC & Co could reasonably pass, and allow GameStop to take over the board of eBay and perhaps slowly add more equity over time à la Buffett and Geico. All is to say, there are different paths than the ones described in the article to get eBay, and they have actually been reasonably disclosed in the 425 campaign run by RC as possibilities. We’ll see what happens.

Interesting... $AMZN

Time to celebrate another eBay-iversary 🎉 September 24, 1998 $EBAY goes public at $18.00 per share.

JUST IN: Imprisoned Former Owner's Lawsuit Questions Price and Process Behind Beckett Sale to PSA Parent Company >>> sportscollectorsdaily.com/la…

It is really frustrating to see that the US Government had $1.6 Billion stolen from us last year via USPS fake postage while over 1 Million legit packages were stopped because the USPS incorrectly thought they were fraud. I know they are working on it, but we need a fix.

I recently interviewed Luci Yang, Senior Director and General Manager of U.S. Collectibles at @eBay, to talk about why coin collecting is surging, #coinTok, and how the next generation is collecting. Read the full Q&A and breakdown here: My latest for @YahooSports | @onMantel sports.yahoo.com/articles/ca…

.@MaxGarlandTypes is good.... Amazon's new transportation service, Standard Ocean Express, routes users’ goods “via the Los Angeles port with direct rail to our East Coast fulfillment centers." supplychaindive.com/news/ama… Announcement - sellercentral.amazon.com/sel…