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Da hast du einen Punkt.
Allerdings bin ich weiterhin der Meinung, dass über die Höhe des Notarhonorars diskutiert werden sollte. M.E. ist es zu hoch angesetzt.

Meist beschränkt sich die Diskussion über zu hohe Kaufnebenkosten auf ein (manchmal auch berechtigtes) bashing gegen Markler.

TLDR (for the apes who don’t read)
GameStop and Collectors Holdings (parent of PSA) are quietly hiring for roles that scream tech platform, capital deployment, and collectibles finance not a company winding down. The timing overlaps with GME’s M&A target acquisition announcement. This isn’t speculation. These are public job postings. I just read them so you don’t have to.
This is a non-speculative, fact-based review drawn directly from publicly posted job descriptions and confirmed corporate ties. No crayons were eaten in the making of this DD. I’m not saying moon. I’m saying: these companies are building something, and the job postings are a transparent window into exactly what.
Let’s break it down.
Part 1: GameStop’s Hiring
GameStop’s open roles cluster into three unmistakable categories: advanced tech infrastructure, enterprise finance, and governance hardening. Here’s what that actually means:
Engineering Roles
∙ Senior Front End Engineer (React/Node.js)
∙ Lead Software Engineer (Python)
∙ Lead Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes/AWS)
∙ SAP BASIS Engineers
These aren’t “fix the website” hires. Kubernetes and AWS at this level means scalable microservices architecture, the kind you build when you’re expecting serious transaction volume. SAP S/4HANA is enterprise-grade ERP used by companies managing complex, multi-entity operations. You don’t hire SAP BASIS engineers to run a GameStop.com storefront. You hire them when you’re integrating backend systems across a larger business ecosystem.
Finance & Treasury Roles
∙ Head of Global Treasury
∙ Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A
∙ EPM Analyst (Oracle FCCS/PBCS)
Apes. Head of Global Treasury. This role manages liquidity strategy, FX exposure, and capital allocation functions that matter when you’re sitting on a large cash reserve and deciding what to do with it. The Oracle EPM stack is used for multi-entity financial consolidation and long-range modeling. Combined with FP&A, this is a company preparing for complex capital decisions — whether that’s M&A, new business lines, or strategic deployment of what is currently a very large pile of cash.
Governance Role
∙ Senior Manager, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance)
You build out GRC infrastructure when you’re scaling into regulated environments or preparing for scrutiny that comes with larger operations.
Bottom Line on GME Hires: This is a company pivoting from brick and mortar toward a tech-enabled, capital efficient platform business. The infrastructure they’re building isn’t for selling used copies of Madden 2019.
Part 2: Collectors Holdings / PSA — They’re Building A Financial Services Business
Now here’s where it gets interesting, wrinkle-brains. Collectors isn’t just hiring graders and shipping clerks. They’re hiring for lending, corporate finance, and IPO readiness.
Specialty Lending
Account Executive
This role involves originating loans backed by physical collectibles graded cards, memorabilia sitting in Collectors’ vaults. This already exists as a product. They’re scaling it. The structure: you own a $50,000 PSA 10 Charizard, you don’t want to sell it, you borrow against it. Collectors already offers this. Now they’re hiring salespeople to grow it.
Asset-backed lending on authenticated, vaulted collectibles is a real and growing financial services vertical. This isn’t a stretch it’s exactly what luxury asset lenders do with wine, watches, and art.
Corporate Finance & Strategy
These roles require building long-range financial models, earnings simulations, and board/investor materials with explicit language around IPO readiness. Let that sink in. Collectors Holdings is professionalizing its financial reporting stack in a way consistent with a company preparing for public markets or a major strategic transaction.
Accounting & Compliance
∙ SOX compliance
∙ Intercompany eliminations
∙ AI driven automation across global entities
SOX compliance is what public companies or companies becoming public have to maintain. AI driven automation at this layer means they’re not just doing this manually. They’re building infrastructure that scales.
Bottom Line on Collectors Hires: This is a company expanding from authentication into full service financial solutions using its vaulted, graded assets as the collateral backbone of a lending and liquidity business. And it’s getting ready to show up on a balance sheet that the public can read.
Part 3: Why These Two Companies Together Is The Actual DD
Here’s the connective tissue, apes:
∙ October 2024: GameStop becomes an authorized PSA dealer. Physical cards sold at GameStop locations can be submitted for grading directly.
∙ November 2024: Collectors CEO Nat Turner joins GameStop’s Board of Directors.
This is not a casual partnership. Board-level integration means strategic alignment at the highest level of both organizations. Now stack the hiring signals on top:
These aren’t two companies doing their own thing. These are two companies whose capability gaps fill each other’s white space. GameStop has the digital platform, retail footprint, and capital. Collectors has the authentication authority, physical vaults, and a growing lending book.
GameStop leverages scalable cloud and marketplace technology, supported by global treasury operations and strategic capital deployment. It also features SAP ERP integration and GRC/regulatory hardening to strengthen its operational foundation.
Collectors complements this with vaulted asset infrastructure, specialty lending and collateral financing capabilities, multi-entity SOX-ready accounting, and full IPO readiness including comprehensive investor materials.
A combined or deeply integrated ecosystem could look like: buy → authenticate → vault → trade → finance. End-to-end collectibles infrastructure. And GameStop’s cash reserve becomes a lot more interesting when it’s sitting next to a company building asset-backed lending products.
The companies aren’t saying anything publicly beyond what’s already confirmed. But their hiring patterns are a form of forward guidance that anyone can read. This is what “doing your own research” looks like when you strip out the noise: follow the talent, follow the infrastructure, follow the capital allocation signals.
GameStop is not building enterprise cloud systems and a global treasury function for a company that’s standing still. Collectors is not hiring IPO ready finance teams and specialty lenders for a company that just wants to grade cards.
Something is being built. The job postings are the blueprint.

So, no M&A announcement later today? 🤣
It's actually irrelevant... "Google screwup" was right there in the OP from the go...
Retail made an interesting observation on X this morning, someone picked up on it and posted it on Reddit later in the evening when he noticed no one else had yet, and it caused a nice little spike in GME related threads/activity with multiple copycat threads spinning off on the same topic. Every mention feeds the algo's used by wall Street to determine sentiment (tonight -> bullish) and the most talked about stocks ... more traction and maybe one of those unaudited AI 'financial experts' puts out a story about it, that would be a fun one to see come across my headlines ;)
That said, target did go up last Friday while most of the market burnt downwards, could someone (or something) be establishing a large position ? Another interesting observation! Wanna talk about it? 😁

I agree it's a nothing burger.
However, the thought of having a "store within a store" type of M&A is certainly intriguing and nothing new. Macy's did the same with Toys R Us a few years ago without buying them, it was a partnership with WHP Global who owned Toys R Us.

I'M SELLING $100K OF AMZN WHEN MARKET OPENS AND PUTTING IT ALL INTO KRATOS DEFENSE.
WE EITHER HOMELESS OR BUYING A LAMBO IN 5 YEARS
WOOOOOOOO

RC’s statement about “capital markets” ought to be factored into our speculation *regarding* potential M&As.

If there was any truth to this being the M/A then you can be sure that institutions would be well positioned before retail and price would already be moving.
Could be wrong but seems like a glitch to me.

This is all about China and Trump is just the useful idiot wagging the dog while the actual plan is taking place right before your eyes.
China is oil poor. They get their oil from Venezuela, Iran, and Russia. Soon they don’t have access to Venezuelan and Iranian oil, and part of the plan with Iran probably involves ensuring the US controls the distribution of most Middle East oil. That leaves Russia, who is probably in on it with the US…. Remind me who benefits most from this Iran BS right now? We don’t need Venezuela’s oil, we don’t need Iran’s oil. We’re taking China’s oil. But this isn’t about billions of dollars and meaningless profits for people who forgot the number of zeroes in their PFS a long time ago. Money has been fake since 08 anyway.
This is happening NOW because we have drawn the conclusion that China is better positioned to win the AI race based on their infrastructure, specifically their massive advantage in power generation and scaling. We tried a trade war during Trump’s first term, it didn’t work - their GDP growth crushed ours. We tried to tariff them this term, it didn’t work - their exports grew. The only thing holding them back, and we have been obvious about these efforts, is their access to the top chips. Our advantage turns into a disadvantage if China takes Taiwan which we all know they’re preparing to try to do. Even if China just disrupts Taiwan, our advantage in the AI race is neutered. We are still years away from domestic manufacturing capacity for these chips, not to mention the rare-earth refining capacity they require.
It’s the Manhattan project all over again. Whoever wins the AI race between the US and China will immediately drop that bomb on their opposition, instantly changing the balence of power exactly like Little Man and Big Boy did when they were rushed to be unleashed.
We are already at full-on war with China, we just can’t be tossing bullets at each other because we can both stick nukes on the end of them (thank your lucky stars for M.A.D.). But the next iteration of the bomb won’t decimate the planet, it’ll just revert its recipient back to the Stone Age or subject them to new drone overlords. AI is infinitely more disruptive than nuclear fission. And unlike the big boom bomb, whoever develops the next one can ensure theirs is the only one that ever gets invented.
All of this is a preemptive attack on China before they hypothetically overtake the US.
And since we’ve privatized WMD development and conned shareholders into paying for the next ultimate weapon to be in the hands of a commercial entity, when the dust settles, it won’t be governments calling the shots anymore. I mean, they’re already not calling the shots. What happened to antitrust? Anyone doing anything about the insider trading? Why did the future of the Ukraine war get decided by Elon Musk (Starlink)? 32 Trillion in debt is held by whom? Too big to fail? Corporations are…people?

That is not how any of this works. Any M&A is subject to regulatory approval which takes months AFTER an announcement. 
It's not going to be Target guys.

what the fuck are you all on about? Do you think Google maps knows about an M&A before it's announced? Do you think the FIRST thing they're gonna do is update the fucking maps metadata? What a weird day for the sub.

\> 2. This is an effective cost-savings strategy to leverage Target real estate for stores and close the strip mall stores entirely.
That's what this is. And haven't we discussed something just like this a year ago? With plans for GameStop locations to start showing up inside BestBuys, or something similar?
If GameStop were acquiring Target, Google Maps' content would be updated roughly 3 weeks after your mother's dog's groomer had already discussed the M&A with their soap supplier.

Gehalt wie ein Arzt? Schau mal in den Tarif rein, da steht ca. 4100 Euro p. M. für den Einstieg und das Gehalt nach 10 Jahren ist vielleicht nen Tausender mehr im Monat. Selbst wenn du deutlich mehr als Tarif verdienst z.B. 40% mehr (was auch nicht so viele Leute dort verdienen), finde ich das nicht wirklich viel für den Job und das Studium. Ein Arzt ist nach 3 Jahren Erfahrung schon bei 7000-8000 Euro pro Monat.
Und deshalb gibt's auch kaum Nachwuchs in der Apotheke. Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass der Job nicht nur aus Pillen aus ner Schublade ziehen besteht.
Als Apotheker in der Industrie, der auch ab und an in der Apotheke arbeitet, finde ich deinen Kommentar komplett daneben.

ok I had to check and my local Target is doing this too... I can't imagine GameStop is buying Target out just pure market cap and money wise but this is definitely very interesting to say the least! Hopefully we get some answer soon on all the M&A talks! LFGOOOOOOO 💎🙌👨‍🚀🚀🌕

Not sure what I think it is... Google glitch? Target prematurely ejaculating before M&A announced... Expecting first, maybe hoping for latter, but regardless interesting find, and retail hype winds in the long run, do just doing my part in sharing an interesting observation

This is the first M&A tin I'm actually falling for. If it's not Target then idk wtf it could be. Seeing actual "GameStop" appear in the Target store's name on Google maps doesn't seem appropriate for any other scenario besides 1. This is the LBO/acquisition, OR, 2. This is an effective cost-savings strategy to leverage Target real estate for stores and close the strip mall stores entirely.
Extra tin: Target operates 2,000 stores in the US. Who has been shutting down stores and inching closer and closer to 2,000 stores in the US? GameStop has.

Surprised it hadn't been mentioned yet here (or maybe it has but I didn't see it)...
Noticed on X someone mentioned GameStop showing up in Google maps at their local target... tried myself and confirmed - all my local Targets show GameStop in store! Nearest actual GameStop to this particular location is 3 miles down the road!
I assumed something might be going on behind the scenes but had to run out today... Figured I read about it here when I got home. Don't see y'all talking about it yet though. Give it a shot, search GameStop in Google maps and see if your Targets all show up.
Did Target jump the gun and update their website before M&A info was officially announced? Or is this just a Google screwup? Interesting to say the least.
Speculate! Something big coming this week?
Fuck, I hope so... It's time!

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15 years from now when all the gen z'ers are at the pentagon:
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I could really do with a small loan of a million dollars (or $60.7 M) right now