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CrazyGamer2017 on 12 October 2017
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Ka-pi96 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.

They should go to jail? Profiting off of other peoples impatience is perfectly acceptable to me. Companies do it all the time, so why can't regular people make some money off of it too? Or do you think things like paying extra for faster delivery or paying for priority seats etc should be illegal as well?

Faster delivery is an added value, priority seats is an added value. Scalpers don't add any value to the product, they make sure no units are left in stores so that people have no other choice than to buy from them.

In other words, scalpers are parasites that don't add extra value but still increase the price for no reason. They're thieves abusing a flaw in the system. Profiting off someone's impatience in and of itself is predatory but not enough to warrant jail in my opinion but when you create on purpose such a situation as scalpers do then yes it deserves jail. They don't profit off a situation that was there, they MADE the product unavailable by buying all the copies and thus create a situation that did not need to exist in the first place.