Are redditors still diamond hands on gme?
Let me tell you a story… I sold off all my Bitcoin and put it all into GME stock right when it was starting to go up… Because why not right? It wasn’t much like it was worth 1000 bucks or something… Because everyone said the bitcoin bubble was going to pop or something… And then Bitcoin went from 30k to 60k in like two months… And now it’s closer to 100k
Long story short I make bad choices and no fuckin way I’m selling my GME for a loss just for it to double or triple again in two months
-whispers into your ear-
You should sell.
I think people underestimate the mental health benefits of never thinking about whether number you can’t control or predict go up or down.
I already said it but my investment is less than it’s worth and I really don’t care about it… if it does go back up a lot I would rather have it and be able to sell then do another Bitcoin situation
Yup. I buy broad index funds, and the only time I need to think about it is when I do my taxes. I check more often, but more out of curiosity than anything (I like seeing line go up).
I see you jack.
Jack: This is GE!
Banks: It’s just G now, Jack. I sold the E. To Samsung. They’re Samesung now.
God, where’s the 30rock Lemmy?
Where is the /s?
WHERE IS THE /S?
It’s really greentext
It’s not I assure you… I paid like 50 bucks for the Bitcoin I think maybe 100 at most… I had it for a while… I don’t care about the money it’s mostly written off I just let it sit at this point because you can’t time the market or something
It’s more a commentary on your writing style, but the potential for satireality is written all over it.
<be me
<sell off all my Bitcoin
<put it all into GME stock right when it was starting to go up
<because why not right?
<1000 bucks or something
<because everyone said the bitcoin bubble was going to pop or something
<bitcoin goes from 30k to 60k in like two months
<now it’s closer to 100kLong story short I make bad choices and no fuckin way I’m selling my GME for a loss just for it to double or triple again in two months
I blame the lack of attention, and focus… But I guess your right…
just for it to double or triple again
Wow, talk about sunk cost fallacy…
Nah my initial investment wasn’t nearly as much in Bitcoin…
The amount of the investment is irrelevant, what’s important is the expected future return. Do you expect GME to increase faster than other options in some time frame? If not, sell it and invest in something with a higher expected return. Likewise for Bitcoin.
Whether something is currently up or down is irrelevant, as is the amount of your investment. The only relevant detail is the expected return and risk (variation) in the investment. Anything else is just gambling.
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Not since Ryan Cohen gave the shorts everything they wanted with the stock sale last year and had absolutely nothing to show for it like a new product or acquisition. Ryan Cohen betrayed his core investors and did something that was supposed to be impossible. He turned a MACD Golden cross into a death cross with a stock sale. Impossible because it would take considerable timing, and back door dealing that is still illegal, in order for it to happen. GameStop dead. Ryan selling assets cuz the ship ain’t righted, and he ain’t got a better plan. Shrink the business and rip off the small guys that invested.
i remember how the wsb sub was little thirsting for him.
Frankly I think every stock-oriented subreddit is a controlled operation meant to pull value from the subscribers only. I doubt almost any thread on those subs are people authentically sharing their perspectives.
At the rate these chains are telling me to fuck off with my business and ignore them I’m gonna end up with nothing but farmer markets and crafts shows to shop at…
And somehow, Costco? Weird twist.
It’s not even a weird twist it’s just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.
It’s wild to me that we’ve had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to “if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn’t we at least do it in a way that won’t break literally everything?”
Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn’t want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy “middle class.”
Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.
Ford used to say something to the effect of ‘pay your workers well enough to afford the product they’re building’ and it seemed to work well.
He was also a horrible anti-semite
Yes… but not really relevant to discussions of businesses not actively trying to completely crush the middle class here?
That too, though I haven’t had reason to go there just yet. Curious to see some stats over the year to see if there’s a notable bump for them due to standing against the trend to kill DEI.
I also haven’t had a reason to go there, haha. Probably soon for diapers, though, as Target is also shooting itself in the foot.
Nearest Costco is about 45 minutes from me so while it looks like a decent replacement to Target, it’s going to have be a bit more planned that just pop out for a quick thing.
Still sort of working on how to keep track of who all I need to avoid. It may only be a small amount but I’m a stubborn one when it comes to avoiding shops. The city pissed me off once so I refused to use their municipal beer shop for like a decade after.
Honestly, is that a bad thing though?
Nothing really aside from the annoyance of living where everything is 20 miles apart makes shopping at multiple small shops quite time consuming.
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What’s so bad about that?
They don’t sell a lot of video games at farmers markets and craft shows… You have to go to a flea market for that, and those are rather dodgy.
What ya dont want to gawk at the gangster spongebob shirts that seem to be at every stall?
It’s moreso that the vendors seem to fall into two not entirely seperate categories.
- The sheistiest sheister that you would be terrified to get in a van with.
- Someone who definitely has a borderline illicit script of oxy on them and think bathing is an option, and a philosophical dilemma.
You can get them online for free
They don’t sell a lot of video games
Wait, y’all buy them?
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I’m at 200+ owned on GOG here, takes a lot less physical space than all those GME disks I used to pick up.
Do not ask those farmers follow-up questions.
It has absolutely nothing to do with their entire core business model being obsolete.
Nor with the issue that they’ve been hemmoraging money at a staggering rate.
Wait, their business model of giving you $3 for a game they’ll charge $50 for isn’t working? The business model that I have to go drive and interact with someone and hope the game is in stock? Who would have thought?
The company as a whole is profitable with not a dollar of debt, where is this staggering hemmorage?
Recall that the first quarter after the whole WSB thing, they had something like 2 billion in cash from that whole thing.
A year later, they had 1 billion.
Half a year later, 500 million.
All of a sudden this quarter, after shutting down stores all over the place and gutting their staff, they’re claiming 4 billion cash on hand, helped out by unproven social media claims growing their stock price 30%.
doubt. Their business model relies on physical games being sold multiple times, once when new, and then multiple times as used copies. This is why they’re focusing on retro consoles. New consoles have passable online marketplaces, so Gamestop cannot compete, and are completely inferior to PC gaming, which hasn’t needed Gamestop in 20 years.
Theyre also going against small gaming hobby stores which while not everywhere they can offer secondary services not reliant on reselling games multiple times. Such as offering LAN parties for old games, table top games, or even movie nights. These are just things I know the shop one of my kin in Arkansas goes to does.
they’re claiming 4 billion cash on hand
If that’s a lie then they will get absolutely wrecked by the authorities since they’re a publicly traded company.
Over 4 billion cash is shown on the balance sheets on their latest filings too
Yeah, about the ”authorities”….
Publicly traded companies misrepresenting their finances, especially to this claimed extent, are not tolerated and are dealt with harshly.
What do you mean unproven social media claims? the $4 billion in cash is in their quarterly earnings: https://gamestop.gcs-web.com/static-files/2c1eac18-9f79-41b9-9e56-a8db8fe7aac4
Pretty easy to verify yourself.
That would be a valid assessment if the stock price had jumped after the quarterly earnings.
Their stock price jumped before the quarterly earnings was announced. It has nothing to do with it, nor any of their fundamentals
Also notice:
Cash flow is neutral or negative and has been for a while now. Revenue peaked in 2018 is now less than 62% of that peak. Revenue per quarter is also down 11% year over year.Company lost 34 million dollars last quarter, and has not had a positive operating income since feb 2018. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/watchlist?tab=Related&id=a1tyxm&duration=1Y&src=b_fingraph&relatedQuoteId=a1tyxm&relatedSource=MlAl&l3=L3_Financials
Even if they continue loosing $34-million each quarter, it will take over 33 years to go bankrupt with the current $4.6-billion cash on hand.
Seriously though, I see that earnings per share was positive for 2024. How is that possible if revenue has been negative since 2018?
Because the share price jumped up so much last year to give them that cash on hand.
Also the $34 million loss is their best result since feb 2018, most of their losses have been 10x higher. Although it does look like a long term trend into the positive cash flow. Also the CEO is mentioning a stock dividend now, so that takes care of the cash on hand.
My local stores sell steam games and PC parts, I don’t think you understand the business model… When was the last time you visited a store?
Not to mention now they’re doing pokemon tcg, that just prints money.
Oh yeah the trading card business too, plus all the homewares now. Currently eating dumplings out of a pokemon licenced bowl manufactured by gamestop
Good luck man. What happened last time they got a huge influx of cash from retail traders? From what I read they wasted it in NFTs.
Now they’re wasting it on trading cards. The company is floundering. Surviving purely from generational nostalgia at this point. When that runs out the rug will be pulled.
They never bought NFTs, they built a website for trading NFTs. Very minimal expense that’s already written off as it got banned by the US govt
Now they’re wasting it on trading cards.
I think you might need to do a bit of reading and research about the Pokemon TCG market. They should be pouring as much money as they can into it. With their brand name and reach they should be able to get a lot of stock from suppliers, and it can make them massive, massive profit. Pokemon TCG is the hottest product on the market, with new stuff selling for 4x RRP on day 1.
But the instance dedicated to a death-grip on this one stock said it was the future!
Anyone who didn’t sell after the idiocy of the NFT market is a fuckin bagholder through and through.
An NFT market was stupid to begin with, because it’s trying to use endless amounts of CPU cycles to enforce an “ownership” system that is genuinely unneeded and only serves to benefit Capital and Capitalists.
Hell yeah let’s burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s
Later, they would shut down the same market, after barely over a year and a half.
This was and is a company with no concrete plans for the future that was spinning its wheels since its core business was failing and continues to fail.
Diamond hands? More like Sunk Cost Hands.
Akchually, NFTs don’t even burn CPU cycles to enforce ownership. At best it’s all created and sold by a central party, and at worst the whole thing runs on his laptop.
Hell yeah let’s burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s
It’s an apt comparison but NFTs are sooo much worse than skins. At least there’s an opportunity to “enjoy” skins as well as show them off during an activity you’re doing anyway.
With an NFT it’s just “look at this picture I own!” and nothing else
Whelp time to cancel my GameStop runs.
I don’t support chuds
Can’t cancel what I never did. GameStop routinely has terrible prices, poor selection (in my area), and mediocre service. I buy most of my used games from eBay, and most of my new games from Target (when on sale). Screw GameStop…
The WSB campaign to save it made no sense to me. So many better companies have gone under.
Sell sell sell!
Seriously, when CEOs say shit like this they’re covering for something. Abandon fucking ship
He just needs to stop, Trumps bro-circle jerk is already full.
I hear they’re moving to a bigger venue.
DEI is some zealous American Puritanism which has no relevance in France, so I’m confused how he made the connection?
I doubt it’s related:
The reality is that the physical side of GameStop’s business has been in steady decline for a while. In 2019, GameStop closed around 200 stores in an attempt to “reboot” the company. GameStop’s fortunes briefly rose due to its 2021 stock surge, but shares quickly plummeted following that initial spike.
They’re probably just not making a profit anymore in those regions, so they’re closing up shop, and the CEO took the opportunity to go on a largely unrelated rant.
what an odd thing to say for a company that employs millions of minorities. sold my stock
You might be off by a few million…
The peak employment number for GME was 27,000
Oh god what did Chewy do?
RC is turning out to be a giant douche bag. Who would have saw that coming
He always was if you check out interviews with him from years ago. Biggest smug ego of anyone and he talks like a valley girl.
His company is alive thanks to a meme. Get fucked, CEO
I was entirely checked out on gme until a few weeks ago, when I remembered it and decided to drop the bag. Turns out I pretty much broke even. Glad to see I was making the right move
after all that effort from the WSB community to save the company.
Honestly as a dumbass still holding worthless empty bags labeled GME, I hate Ryan Cohen almost as much as I hate Musk.
I just wish I was paying attention the day it climbed back up to 60$, I would have sold for a small profit in a hurry…
Same same same same same.
Damn dude, diamond hands or broken hands?
I was locked into FOMO and sunk cost fallacy, I’m now trying to get these scumbags at Computershare to give me my shares back so I can sell them.
Oof, you went full DRS. Not judging, I probably would’ve sone the same if I got in late.
Yeah, it’s an embarrassment I have to live with forever. The person who got me and my friends into it doesn’t talk to my group anymore and I think it’s out of shame. I, in turn, feel shame not only for my part in participation in the market, but for convincing others to buy shares as well.
Fucking thing sucks, I want my money back Ryan, you cock.
TBF it was a good idea to buy, just required the caveat that you should’ve sold in January. I somehow timed my exit well, then proceeded to plough a stupid amount into another meme srock which now sits at -48k, a good reminder that gambling is for idiots. Like me.
Yeah let me know if you ever figure that out :\
Man, that really sucks. I’m sorry to hear that. I had it happen to me once with $SLV.
The stock price is not declining, and is up for the year. What’s the problem?
It’s a bad sign that you know the CEO’s name.
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You’re on a first name basis, even a parasocial relationship with the CEO of Gamestop despite never having met him. Who here is intellectually deficient?
God damn. That’s honestly one of the dumbest fucking takes I’ve seen, and we’re living in Trump 2.0. You’re impressively unintelligent.
Says the guy who’s passionate and on a first name basis with the CEO of a game store chain.
Oh. OH! I’m taking the bait. Bravo. I still think you’re retarded for being a troll on the Internet when there’s so much else you could be doing, but good job rustling my jimmies.
All I did was point out your weird parasocial relationship with a CEO of a game store company. It’s very strange how you reacted to that. You must realize just how weird it is, how empty your life is. Get help dude.
So just to be clear, you think it’s crazy that I know a name from the article? That’s what you’re saying? Definitely retarded.
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Dump the stonks!
