5 times scalpers totally screwed themselves over

[CrazyGamer2017]

DonFerrari said:

CrazyGamer2017 said:

I totally agree. Scalpers are thieves in the sense that they make a price go artificially up but add no value whatsoever to the product they sell. There is no good reason for a scalper to sell a product at the price they do. Not only there is no good reason but knowing that those despicable creatures actually go out of their way to try and get all copies of a product specifically to make sure you cannot buy it at normal price so that you are almost forced to pay whatever they ask cause you sometimes have no other choice, should be criminal and I mean that in the legal sense. They should go to jail.

By principle I would never ever buy from a scalper, even if I want something bad, I'll keep looking for it at normal price elsewhere and if I don't find it, I simply give up and don't buy it, cause feeding scalpers is making the problem worse. Unfortunately a lot of people fall for those parasites, feed them and make it worse for everybody including themselves.

No need to make it unlawfull in a free market... it isn't like the supplier can't produce more.

Law of supply and demand... if Nintendo produces more then the scalpers won't be able to charge extra.

I don't believe so, to me the term "free" market make sense if it benefit the citizens that wish to take part in a transaction that benefits both parties. The price of the product that is sold should reflect the value of the product and a higher price should reflect added value, but scalpers abuse that term, they found a loophole to short-circuit the normal cycle of supply/demand, they don't add any value, they block any other choice for the buyer by obtaining all avalable copies of said product and so on... They might as well wait for people that leave stores with stuff they bought and force them to give them money or they take their purchase away from them, which is a crime called assault and robbery, or something. Scalping is the same except the scalper takes the stuff before the buyer can get it in the store.

Now if a company for whatever reason creates an artificial scarcity then said company is clearly part of the problem and should be heavily criticized for it. But that company does not deserve legal consequences for a simple reason: the product belongs to them so in a free market it is their right to sell whatever quantities they want of it, exception made of companies dealing in vital goods such as food but that's another issue.