$EBAY Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $EBAY Tape Reports — 50 podcast mentions across 9 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-23 17:09 UTC.
I think, correct me if my memory is wrong here, was it like a sheet of like stamps kind of? And the COVID albums were like on stamps. I don't know. That's sort of ringing a bell. Anyway, this got me thinking. My first, my first album, I'm pretty sure, was a radio, was a tape cassette. Like 90% positive it was a tape cassette of Throwin' Copper. And I Googled it, like, throwin' copper cassette. Like, is that even a thing? Or was it a CD? It was a cassette. And you could buy it on eBay for $100. I'm not going to, but still around.
Michael Batnick — Animal Spirits Podcast · Are Free Markets Dead? (EP. 479) · 2026-08-26Seeking Alpha analyst Damir Tokić said Warsh will be under the spotlight to address the current bond market sell-off And he will restate that real rates are rising while inflation expectations remain anchored, so that will be a dovish message. However, with this dovish message, the nominal long-term rates will continue to rise, steepening the yield curve, he added. In the news this weekend, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the country will impose retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of U.S. imports starting September 8th in response to the Trump administration's new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods. His remarks came after weeks of trade negotiations between the two sides collapsed late Friday. The new U.S. tariffs, which could impact roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian exports, took effect immediately. Meanwhile, President Trump posted on Truth Social that Canada has charged our great farmers for many years massive amounts of tariffs. He added that Canada wants the benefits of being a state without being one. And for income investors, 3M goes ex-dividend Monday, paying out on September 11th. Hyatt goes ex-dividend Thursday with a September 10th payout date. T-Mobile and eBay go ex-dividend Friday. T-Mobile pays out on September 10th and eBay on September 11th. That's all for today's Wall Street Brunch. Look for links to stories in the show notes section. Don't forget, these episodes will be up with transcriptions at seekingalpha.com/wsb. And join the elite community of real investors to unearth great investing ideas. Just head to seekingalpha.com/subscriptions.
Kim Kahn — Wall Street Breakfast · Nvidia and Jackson Hole take center stage · 2026-08-23Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's obviously why I chose it, because, yeah, you know, uh, hey, but you know what, the mainframe revolution was real. And it's just about like, I mean, so here's another premise. I, here's another longstanding principle of mine and everything ends in a boring place. Whatever company you're excited about right now, if everything goes beautifully, like it ends up being kind of a utility or a mature company or some parts of the guts and operations of the economy and it slows down. It's like eBay was a moonshot exciting stock.
Michael Santoli — The Compound and Friends · How to Play the Money Game with Michael Santoli · 2026-08-21I think, uh, to, to like interject here, I mean, uh, I don't, I don't want to talk exactly about books, but just about like archiving in general, which is like the Internet Archive archives everything. It saves things, it scans them, um, you know, as much as they can get their hands on. And there's entire communities of people that save like, advertisements from the 1960s, uh, computer mags— defunct computer magazines from the '80s, like, and literally anything. Things that you find in people's basements and attics and all of this sort of thing. And it is both like a heroic effort, this like scanning of these documents, which are, you know, usually not done in a destructive way as far as I know, uh, but also you never know when something is going to be useful or when you might need something. Um, it's like, I have been doing many articles about— over, over the course of my career where I'm like, oh, I need an article that was published in a newspaper in 1973. Where am I going to find that article? And sometimes you can find it at the library, or sometimes someone has scanned it, but sometimes you need to like buy a copy of a book, and that book might not be fine pros, you might need to know, like, here's a random book about a random topic. There was 300 of them ever made, and there's one copy of them on eBay, and you can buy it. And maybe that's useful, and maybe it leads to an article or whatever. And I think that the idea, like, the idea that I've seen, I've seen people attacking your article, not very many, but when I have seen people attacking your article, they're saying, oh, like, they won't name the book. Like, it's probably not that rare. And it's like, it is not up to any individual person to say this book is valuable or not valuable or rare or not rare, because literally we have a saying in English, one person's trash is another person's treasure. And it's like, that has been the case for me zillions of times. And I will stop ranting, but it's like I've been looking for a very specific computer part or part for my ResiGraph printer for literally over a year, almost a year now.
Jason Kebler — The 404 Media Podcast · Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI · 2026-08-19And there has been like one of them that has like ever gone on eBay over the last year. This is like a thing that probably 99.9% of people, if they encountered, would throw in the trash or would recycle.
Jason Kebler — The 404 Media Podcast · Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI · 2026-08-19At that point in time was when like eBay was getting started and I was like, wait, you can make money from Pokémon cards? Like, I love Pokémon cards and I can make money from doing it? The first one sold for $10. That's probably the true origin stories of Whatnot.
Grant Lafontaine — The a16z Show · How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace · 2026-08-19Well, I think all kids back then, there was just a Pokémon craze. Pokémon cards became big. Get my dad to go bring me to the shop. Open my Pokémon cards. I had my binder, had all my Charizards in it, had everything. And I, down sort of the street from where I was living, it was like a little lake and hangout area. And me and my friend used to go there and we'd trade Pokémon cards and I'd try and hustle people on getting the better cards. And then at that point in time was when eBay was getting started and their biggest competitor was Yahoo Auctions. And I don't know how I found out about it, but I found out about it and I was like, wait, you can make money from Pokémon cards? I love Pokémon cards and I can make money from doing it? And so I got my dad to help me set up an account and I posted my bunch of my holographic cards online. The first one sold for $10 and it was the holographic Chansey card.
Grant Lafontaine — The a16z Show · How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace · 2026-08-19It makes total sense. I mean, the numbers are just staggering. You said it's about a trillion dollars in, in Asia. Um, that's a huge number. I looked it up before this, so I think US e-commerce is about a trillion two, if I have that roughly right. And one of the historical knocks I've heard people say about Whatnot is, well, you know, Etsy's only so big, or eBay is only so big. And I always find it funny when people mention that, you know, eBay was actually, if you go back something like 10 years, it was like 15% of the overall market and it's $80 billion of volume still, by the way, it was like 15% of the overall market. Now it's less than 1% of the market. So the big change that's happened is the market has actually just grown beyond it. And so I always say it's way too limiting to think about, you know, what your market is or what you can go get to think about that. eBay is sort of a proof point to me that there's at least an $80 billion market of long tail commerce to go get. Online, but the real thing is like how much of the gap between $80 billion and $1.2 trillion do you go capture because the experience is so much better? Is that a, would you agree or disagree with all that?
David George — The a16z Show · How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace · 2026-08-19