$220 for an NES mini...

[Ganoncrotch]

oniyide said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Nintendo are not the ones who go onto ebay and buy these consoles for $300+ Idiots are, and those idiots are the ones that fund these people who use that money to buy out the next big thing.

If idiots wouldn't pay for these things then sellers would not be so confident to go out and buy 50-100 of them on day 1, but Mongs have to have one for their collection so scalpers can use this money to put down pre orders for a couple of hundred Nintendo Switch systems next year.

with all due respect who are you to tell people how to spend their money? IMHO its dumb to spend any money on this especially triple digits but its not my money. If you got it flaut it. 

If Nintendo actually sent more than 4 per damn store their wouldnt be a need to scalp, but sure lets keep shifting blame.

I'm sadly not telling anyone how to spend their money, I'm saying that there is no point blaming Nintendo for Nintendo fans doing this with hardware, if a scalper buys 20 of these at $60 and sells 4 of them to derps at €300 on ebay they can happily chuck the rest in the bin and they haven't lost money. Is Nintendo to blame for the 16 consoles which are effectively taken out of the market at no loss to the scalper because of people willing to spend €300 to have a NES. I was going to end that with a ? but it's not a question, I phrased it incorrectly, it's a statement. Scalpers exist where people are willing to spend more than the RRP on goods like this, if people wouldn't buy them at the cost then scalpers wouldn't be so fast to jump on the supply which does exist and buy them up.

To even have to point this out is actually upsetting, That's it for me in this thread.