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Ryan Cohen pulled in a hefty sum from his baseball cards, merch, and gaming collectibles, thanks to his eBay listing stunt.<\/p>\n

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The CEO of GameStop posted a collection of items for resale after announcing his unsolicited bid for eBay, which the company has since rejected. “I’m selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay,” he wrote on X earlier this month.<\/p>\n

One week later, the listings have closed, and the items have sold.<\/p>\n

Cohen’s total haul: $168,421.39.<\/p>\n

The highest-earning item was a large Master Chief statue from “Halo 2.” The statue was listed for local pickup in Grapevine, Texas \u2014\u00a0where GameStop is headquartered \u2014\u00a0and sold for $15,100. It received 105 bids.<\/p>\n

Other top earners include two store signs from shuttered GameStop locations ($14,921, 105 bids) and two collectible statues from “South Park” ($13,400, 87 bids).<\/p>\n

Cohen also sold a collectible card picturing Donald Trump’s 2016 swearing in, which was graded as a PSA 10. The card sold for $6,470 with 44 bids. The buyer seemed pleased, leaving Cohen a positive review, calling it a “smooth transaction” with “excellent communication.”<\/p>\n

The lowest-earning item was a 1995 baseball card of Vladimir Guerrero. It pulled in $1,694 and 69 bids.<\/p>\n

Of course, the haul is a drop in the bucket of GameStop’s $55.5 billion bid, which Cohen has said would be “half cash, half stock.” The $168,421.39 total is about 0.0003% of the deal total, emphasizing the publicity stunt nature of the item listings.<\/p>\n

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Cohen’s profile was briefly suspended by eBay after its system flagged high price points. EBay restored the account \u2014\u00a0but not before Cohen posted about it on X.<\/p>\n

One casualty of Cohen’s initial vision for the listings was his socks, which at one point had attracted bidding over $14,000. Used underwear and socks violate eBay’s used clothes policy.<\/p>\n

Cohen now faces an even steeper uphill climb toward his goal of becoming CEO of a combined eBay and GameStop entity. EBay earlier this week rejected GameStop’s offer, and its chairman, Paul Pressler, called the proposal “neither credible nor attractive.”<\/p>\n

After the rejection, Cohen responded with an email to Pressler, writing that the company “should not dismiss a $125 per share proposal without engaging on its substance” and that “shareholders deserve the opportunity to evaluate them,” FT reported.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Piers Morgan, Cohen signaled he wasn’t done fighting for a deal.<\/p>\n

“They have a job to do the best for shareholders and engage on this, and if they don’t then we’ll \u200bdo whatever we need to do,” he said.<\/p>\n

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