One of my buyers is an ebay "owner"

[Cinnamon]

I got an interesting email from a buyer. He had received his item and made some outlandish threats and said that ebay would back him up since he was an owner of ebay's stocks; his $100,000 investment allowed him this luxury. I obviously reported him to ebay and got that situation handled.

My question is whether anyone has made any type of large investment into ebay's stock and asked if ebay would re-instate your account due to the fact that you are part owner or contributing to the company itself. I know this may seem quite ridiculous but you never know if anyone has had any success in arena.

[JJGold]

Ridiculous, eBay has a market cap of $44 billion and $100,000 would not be considered a large shareholder by any stretch. Not going to happen.

[BigCJ]

This guy is so full of it, he could fertilize all of china and still have left overs.

He would probably have to add around 3 zeros behind that ridiculous claim. Just an extortion attempt. What a noob.

Ok, I have stock in amazon, still got the boot. That's how much of an influence I had over them LOL

[Cinnamon]

Oh I know he had no leg to stand on but I just thought perhaps a shareholder of approximately $1 million might be able to persuade ebay that he/she is more reputable or safe enough to have the selling privileges reinstated. Has anyone attempted such a feat?

[rsot]

This is one of the craziest ideas yet and if you have time to waste on thinking about this...I would say you have way too much time on your hands ha

[GreenBean]

When did ebay change its name to Fantasy Island?

[mercurial333]

Buy 1.000.000$ of stock to hopefully be re-instated, lol OP

or

Buy 20$ VCC + 10$ phone.

[bsg1979]

$100,000 is nothing to Ebay, maybe if you had $10,000,000 in stock but I doubt it...

[yotano211]

Originally Posted by JJGold

Ridiculous, eBay has a market cap of $44 billion and $100,000 would not be considered a large shareholder by any stretch. Not going to happen.

FYI, market cap does not mean jack crap. And those $100k, if you invest into a certain company early enough you can become a large shareholder, it depends on when the person buys the stock.

Market cap changes the moment the clock hits another sec of time in any given time, or World Time. Wall Street waits for no man.

I was there when Bear Stearns had a market cap of several billion. Then one weekend in March of 2008, they had a market cap of 0.

I watched several of the most talented trading teams I have ever witness, back up their offices and leave the parking lot. Some people had to be escorted by the building security cuz they refused to believe that it was all over. It happened over one weekend, it got bought by Chase for $2/share or $230 million dollars in cash. Their headquarters in New York was worth several billion just for the building. It later got bumped up to $10/share cuz of shareholder revolts and lawsuits.

And any person that buys just 1 share of any company is a shareholder or "company owner". You have 1 voting power for your 1 share. BUT, it depends on the level of the shares you have. There is several types of share classes. You might own 1 share of class C share but my Class A share is worth 10 times more than your Class C cuz maybe I invested into the company early enough or I am a family member.

Another thing, shareholders are at the bottom of the pool when a company goes belly up. 1st, comes all the creditors that the company owes money too, than several other people. And last, it's you, the shareholder.

So you can go ahead in invest in EB, but when it goes belly up, I will short the stock, make money on the down side and be one first in line to get payment with the creditors.

Wall Street sucks then you know nothing about it, but it's awesome when you do.

**I am not making rude marks at anyone, I just posted this for some information to the masses. Plus I was bored...

[waterproof]

...how about SURVIVOR? We are all on Fantasy Island trying to survive! :D

Originally Posted by GreenBean™

When did ebay change its name to Fantasy Island?