Pretty sure these people should just not be labeled as human beings at this point.
It’d help if people didn’t buy from scalpers as that’s why scalpers are so prevalent to begin with, some people just don’t care paying twice the supposed price for whatever dumb reasons but yeah, it’d be nice if someone stepped in to limit it more, the retailers should have better systems to identify if they’ve already sold the same products to the same people before (don’t know about you but if the same bank card is buying 20 Xboxes then that’s sus right there and the intent should be pretty clear on what’s going on.
it’s not illegal though unless they’re necessity items, and well, games aren’t necessities to be fair, but it can still be monitored better nonetheless. I’ll be getting my newer consoles once they’re on price drops as that’s when they’ll be available anyways, I can wait a few years if need be🤷♀️ But I sure as hell ain’t paying no one thousand dollars for each console when they’re only supposed to be marketed at 300-500$
The reason scalpers are around is that people actually purchase the item that they are selling for unreasonably high prices, but i agree that it should just be a big enough crime like DDoSing etc.
Not a federal crime: that’s kinda extreme.
It’s crappy behavior and the people who do it, especially to collectors and genuine fans, are absolute garbage, but it shouldn’t be labeled a crime. More than anything, companies need to take steps to combat it and protect their loyal consumers and fanbases, such as limiting the number of purchases to one per account and security checks on the site to make sure it’s a real person and not a script that’s placing the order. There’s got to be other measures they could implement as well.
Thing is…they won’t. They don’t care. They’re getting their money, so they don’t give a crap about who buys the product and what they do with it.
I hate that you can even buy these consoles through the internet. They should be physical purchase only, so that I could go to my local gamestop and say ‘here’s my money to guarantee I get one of these consoles.’ so that I have an actual CHANCE to buy one. I got extremely lucky to get the standard series X that I currently own.
Lmao probably not a federal crime. These retailers just need to improve their practices because it is a joke how easily these people seem to bypass their sites and buy as many consoles as they want.
What I think is worse about scalpers is their arrogance. They truly believe they are Gods.
Simple I guess I’ll create something 3rd party for every retailer that has anti scapling. I could create it. But I’m leaving it here for someone else to do it and be a billionaire. You sign Into the account Tay does more verification then normal sites to make sure its a person n o ly buying a set nber 2. N that account can only be used to buy those high scalp items. Do it some body. Shopping must evolve with how the world shops and the things that make it suck
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> Thing is…they won’t. They don’t care. They’re getting their money, so they don’t give a crap about who buys the product and what they do with it.
I agree, companies and retailers do need to take measures.
But isn’t this type of scalping on this scale a form of fraud? We aren’t talking a few tickets to a ballgame the last minute. We are talking supply and demand for a world wide product being completely redirected and resold for massive profit. If I was a Microsoft and Sony and I saw that one individual or a group of individuals were making more money than our companies were off of our hardware. There would be lawsuits.
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> I agree, companies and retailers do need to take measures.
> But isn’t this type of scalping on this scale a form of fraud? We aren’t talking a few tickets to a ballgame the last minute. We are talking supply and demand for a world wide product being completely redirected and resold for massive profit. If I was a Microsoft and Sony and I saw that one individual or a group of individuals were making more money than our companies were off of our hardware. There would be lawsuits.
They’re buying a product: that’s not fraud. Fraud would be if they offer to sell you the product, take your money, and then send you the box with an old Xbox 360 in it or something. What they’re doing is scummy, but not illegal. It’s no different that during the earlier days of the pandemic when people started going to stores and buying all the hand sanitizer and toilet paper so they could resale them for ridiculous amounts. Stores, at least around my area, began to combat this by limiting the number of purchases per customer in an effort to make sure more people could get what they needed at an affordable price.
The feds aren’t going to step in and say “Son, you’re buying too many Xboxs, so we’re taking you in.”
You’re asking for the free market to be a federal crime. The only way to stop scalpers is just to not buy from them at all. As long as there’s a demand for scalped products there will be a supply.
Lol go away commie
The problem isn’t the scalpers, it’s the websites that allow this kind of behavior, blame eBay for not putting a screening process or something similar in place for items above X amount of money. If eBay and other re-selling platforms put measures in place to prevent listings on new items at above MSRP it would be a lot harder to scalp which in turn would minimize the behavior, because why take the risk of spending so much money if there’s no guaranteed way to sell the items your scalping?
eBay could easily create a screening process at items, let’s say above $500, these listings get put into a queue before going public and whoever sees it in the queue can google the product to see if it’s a recent release item, if the item just came out and is largely above the MSRP they cancel the listing, if it’s hasn’t come out recently or is close to MSRP the listing is approved, this also creates more jobs due to a demand of people needed to work the queueing system.
At the end of the day the companies selling the items don’t really care because they get their money, and the re-selling platforms don’t care because it brings more traffic to their websites, that said I still think there should be a larger push to put an end to scalping since the practice has exploded so much since the 30 series graphics cards launched (scalping online has been around before this but it’s only noticeably taken place in the digital market more often since these graphic cards launched).
Not sure if it should be a crime, but websites that sell these overpriced products should probably put rules in place to prevent this sort of thing. Their is no way to prevent it completely, but at least reduce it.
Honestly out of all the companies being scalped from Microsoft stands to gain the most by cracking down. All it would take is only selling at physical retail and pressuring retailers to ID and keep a list limiting sales to one or two per house hold. (I know people get around the house hold part) If Microsoft did that who knows how many subscriptions they would gain from consoles sitting in storage just waiting on some one to pay double price.
It’s a really -Yoink!- thing that people do, but that’s just the thing with the Free Market. It sucks, but legally there’s really nothing that can be done about it.
the best way to combat scalpers is to either not buy from them, or troll them.
Scalpers are terrible people, but this isn’t Halo related.