{"id":699,"date":"2026-05-12T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:40:17","slug":"gamestops-55-5bn-bid-for-ebay-rejected-as-neither-credible-nor-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"GameStop\u2019s $55.5bn bid for eBay rejected as \u2018neither credible nor attractive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online marketplace takes into account uncertainty around US video games retailer\u2019s financing proposal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/uk-bond-yields-borrowing-costs-pound-falls-oil-inflation-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The board of eBay has rejected the US video games retailer GameStop\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/04\/gamestop-takeover-offer-ebay-bid\">surprise $55.5bn bid<\/a> (\u00a341bn) for the online marketplace, describing the proposal as \u201cneither credible nor attractive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, GameStop made an unsolicited bid for eBay, <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.gamestop.com\/news-releases\/news-details\/2026\/GameStop-Proposes-to-Acquire-eBay-at-125-00-Per-Share\/\">publishing a letter<\/a> on its website outlining a half-cash, half-stock proposal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/gamestop-bid-for-ebay-rejected-as-neither-credible-nor-attractive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online marketplace takes into account uncertainty around US video games retailer\u2019s financing proposal Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}