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GameStop is auctioning off the stapler that broke Nintendo Switch 2 consoles and its CEO’s undergarments—and bidding has topped $200K
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GameStop因订书机损坏新Switch 2屏幕引发热议,CEO Ryan Cohen随后宣布拍卖订书机和修复后的Switch 2,所得将捐给儿童奇迹网络医院。拍卖过程中,Cohen提出若竞标价超过10万美元,将附赠个人内衣。最终,Cohen再次加码,若竞标价超100万美元,他将亲自送内衣并请胜者吃麦当劳。截至周五,竞标价已达21.8万美元,拍卖仍在进行中。

📌 GameStop因订书机损坏新Switch 2屏幕引发关注,随后决定拍卖该订书机及修复后的Switch 2。

💰 拍卖所得将捐赠给儿童奇迹网络医院,此举旨在将负面事件转化为慈善行为。

🩲 CEO Ryan Cohen在拍卖中加码,承诺若竞标价超过10万美元,将附赠个人内衣;若超过100万美元,则亲自送内衣并请胜者吃麦当劳。

📈 截至周五,竞标价已达21.8万美元,但仍未达到Cohen承诺的最高价,拍卖将在未来五天内继续进行。

    GameStop is auctioning an infamous stapler that punctured the screens of new Nintendo Switch 2 screens. CEO Ryan Cohen raised the stakes Thursday by offering his underwear as well. On Friday, he said if bidding tops $1 million, he will hand deliver the personal garments – and take the winner to lunch at McDonald’s.

Gamers love a pop-culture moment—and the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 certainly qualified. But when GameStop accidentally ruined several of the new, hard-to-get console systems by stapling receipts to boxes and puncturing the yet-to-be-turned-on screens in the process, things took on a life of their own.

GameStop’s leveraging embarrassing malaprop into a charitable moment, putting the stapler (and a Switch 2) up for auction, with the proceeds going to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Gamers turned out for that. Then things took a weird turn. And they’re getting even odder.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen vowed that should bidding reach the six-figure mark, he would include his underwear in the auction. (Why? Dear God, we have no idea. What kind of underwear? While Fortune regularly does deep dives on executives, there are some depths we’re not willing to plumb.)

So, as of Thursday, people were bidding not only for a generic stapler and a Switch 2 (which, it’s worth noting, WAS punctured by the stapler, but has since had the screen repaired), but also for Cohen’s boxers or tighty whiteys (and those are the only possibilities we’re willing to entertain, people!).

Friday, Cohen raised the stakes: Should bidding hit $1 million or more, he said in a social-media post, he will fly the winner to Miami, take them to McDonald’s for lunch, and then “personally deliver my preowned underwear.”

Bidding, as of 11:45 a.m. ET on Friday, stood at just $218,401. So, for now, Cohen seems safe from having to shell out for McNuggets. But there are five days left in the auction.

Bidding started high—at over $120,000—so there are definitely some people who are serious about getting their hands on … the stapler. Let’s all just assume it’s all about the stapler and the piece of gaming history, OK?

Bidder names are truncated and anonymized at present, so there’s no way to know if Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, who sparked the enthusiasm on GameStop stock that led it to become the first meme stock, is among the bidders.

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