Sell pre-order at launch to make money?

[DerpSandwich]

-CraZed- said:

DerpSandwich said:

I think selling your launch systems for inflated prices is pretty crappy. On the one hand I think, "If some idiot's willing to pay that much money, it's their own fault." But then you've got to think about how for every system you buy and sell for profit, there's a guy at the bottom of the ladder who wanted a system and didn't get one. For every pre-order someone nabs, there's someone out there who missed out, or who has to pay a ton of money for a system rather than MSRP. Just a crummy thing to do, in my opinion. It would be nice if you could just go out and buy a system rather than having to fight these scammers for them.

Not that I'm saying every person who re-sells is a scammer.  This situation is a bit more complicated.

No one who resells a system is a scammer. Unless they sell one and never deliver. The case could be made its crappy he lost his job in the first place. If he has a next gen system or two and there are none to be had through the normal retail outlets anyone wishing to buy one better be prepared to pay a premium for them.

Whats crummier selling something that is rare for a higher price or simply keeping them and not selling them at all? There is only one scenario there which prevents another person who hadn't preordered, from owning a PS4/XB1 at launch day, and it isn't the one in which the original purchasers keep theirs.

"Scammer" isn't the right word, but I couldn't think of a better one.  But "crappy" is a perfect word for a person who buys a system just to sell it at a higher price.